This is a treat!
 

I wasn't sure where to post this, but this morning I was looking through some of the websites here and stumbled across Jessica Rockwell's. If you haven't seen it you should check it out. Fox News did a story on her and you can watch the whole thing on your computer.

Enjoy, and Happy Easter..
http://www.portraitartist.com/rockwell/rockwell.htm

I went to this web site, downloaded the suggested Quick Time and still nothing happened...

What is it all about?

Ditto!

I can get some of the pictures intermittently but no sound even when I reduced the modem speed setting.

That stinks
 

Mine played so clearly I couldn't believe it!

It is about a five minute or so news story on Jessica, her love of painting, learning from her uncle Norman Rockwell. It follows her through the steps of meeting with a family, the photo shoot, picking out the photos, painting the portrait and finally the unveiling.

I love watching how others do things. I hope you can get it to work.

As far as I know, to date there no video format that reliably plays in all environments.

I must correct my recent post. The video and sound now works on my computer but I had to wait a long time (more than twenty minutes) for the download/streaming. I have a 56k modem and you must be very patient at that speed.

It's a very nice spot and promo for portraiture.

I have a 56 k modem that runs at 26.4 kbps. It is not conducive to utilizing this feature. Dang :(

At last! -- I thought it could never happen. I'm on a Mac and I got the video through QuickTime straight away. Must be all that incense I'm burning in the studio. Or else the groveling at home.

Do make sure you've got the latest QuickTime software and driver (downloadable). Also, try again later. Sometimes prime-time traffic slows everything way down.

Also -- start your QuickTime application BEFORE you try to view the video. Often the video feed won't open QuickTime on its own, it just looks for it to be already running.

Serious internet video such as that really is much more for the realm of DSL and cable connection. Video files are huge and there's no getting around that. And, the longer the video clip and higher quality, the larger the file will be.

Steven,

That must be Mac-speak about having QuickTime open already. As far as I know, that's not relevant on a PC, but I'm still learning about video on the web. Jim is on a Mac too I think.

About half the time something that runs on QuickTime will automatically open that application on my Mac, but if I try to view a file and it just stalls or won't execute, I've learned (through the scientific process known to every mechanic -- if you're not sure what's wrong, start by jiggling some of the wires and tapping your wrench on some of the connections) that if I back up and start my QuickTime Player first, then try the download again, it's about a 98% "fix". This is as sophisticated as my computer technician skills get.

I'm on a relatively slow ethernet connection on a hillside in China and, though the video in question took a while to load (perhaps a minute?), when it did run it was full-speed and clear. Who knows what lurks out in cyberspace to gum things up? Maybe gremlins like that one on the airliner's wing in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

The video file is 4.5 MB.

Sure would make life on the web easier if they'd just come up with one standard. Unlikely however.

An all-Macintosh cyberworld?!! Now that's an idea for a beautiful picture. If you see Bill Gates hawking his Corbis archives at the portrait convention, ask him to invest more capital in Apple, too. (Please.)

-- A friend

QT video on slow/ish connections and older computers
 

If you have a fast connection (like cable or DSL) and you have QuickTime 5 (available for both Mac and Windows from Apple) and the Quicktime browser plugin, the video will start to play as soon as the page loads right on the page.

If you have a slow connection it will still play after a long wait. I've been on cable or a T1 line for so long now I have almost forgotten what internet on dial up connections are like.

I have always been a Mac user so Quicktime has always been my media player of choice but I do remember back when I was on a 28k dial up I would start a download of a 20 second video go get a coffee and then wait some more for it to load before playing it completely through.

Now with QuickTime5 and the streaming server it does work better even on slower connections but I have to agree with Cynthia. Video and other multimedia is best for those of us with high speed connections.

This one is worth the wait though. not that I had to wait :)

Also QT5 was designed for fast processors PC with PIII 400MHZ or a Mac with G3 333MHz or better is recomended for QT5 and the browser plugin.

So if you have a old PC or a old 601PPC Mac even after the file downloads it may still play poorly or even not at all if your system can't handle the decoding of the video and sound.