Is anyone collection these sermons and transcribing them to booklet form? So much of ABL's words are lost to us: lets not losse His Excellency's.[/b]
You're elected.
Please post the text on the forum. I can't seem to download Youtube videos because I have very slow dial-up internet access.
I'd gladly post in text if I could download them. Half the time I can't even view Youtube; just get that little circle that keeps going 'round & "round :really-mad2:. Was hoping someone might have a printing business where they could be published. I'm sure they would be very beneficial for future reference. We older seniors aren't always so great on the computer
I have the same exact problem. I was wondering is it because I have dial up
Yes. You can open the link, then go have dinner or whatever and an hour or so later click the little replay icon (circular arrow, lower left of the video frame, & left of the volume icon). Don't refresh the browser page.. Depending on various factors however, the stream from youtube may time out, so it's a gamble whether you'll get the whole thing in one sitting.
The fundamental problem seems to be the fact that YouTube uses
Adobe Flash player for the videos. ICYHN there is no Flash Fan Club.
But Flash is what a lot of sites use because of the perks and ad
possibilities and the fact that Adobe puts a lot of effort into keeping it
up to date - if you've been using it, you may have noticed every month
or two there's a new Flash version to download.
Flash has a lot of negatives, such as, it uses up gobs of RAM, it tends to
get tangled up in its own web with scripts and priority squabbles, it does
not deal well with rewind/repeat segments, it takes a long time for low
capacity systems to catch up to the rate of the playback such that
"streaming video" is entirely unreliable, while it takes a long time, as
ultrarigorist says, it's a gamble whether waiting patiently will pay off or
not; and, the biggie: Flash Crashes a Lot. Good thing it's not a
commercial carrier - like a taxi cab company! (Trying not to upset readers)
Not a few Internet users simply don't have Flash, don't want it, and
don't miss it. But they don't view YouTube videos, either.
ICYHN the website,
http://www.inthissignyoushallconquer.com has
adopted the VLC media player as its method of delivering audio to
you. I think this is wonderful! VLC takes a little time to download
your audio selection, but not too much time. I have a low-end DSL
feed and a 30-minute sermon takes about 5 minutes before I can
start it up. That may seem too long to YouTube users who can
sometimes (key word) get a video up and running in less than 10
seconds. But the difference is, once you spend that 5 minutes, you
are home free, because the entire content is on your hard drive, and
you can play it back any time you please, in any manner you please.
You can skip ahead to any point or re-play the same 10 seconds
as many times as you like, or whatever combination of that you
want. The volume control is great: you can crank it up to distortion
level if you need to get some little thing, or you can turn it down to
a whisper if you don't want to wake the baby! Or anything in between.
The only drawback I can think of with VLC is it doesn't have the
image to look at, but for most of these sermons, that isn't a key
feature anyway, because the vast majority of the content is in the
audio. Occasionally, it's nice to get a look at what's going on, but once
you're familiar with how it looks, the looks no longer mean much. One
exception would be the recent baptism video with Fr. Hewko doing
all those things and explaining it all. That was a treat! - even with all
the "Technical Difficulties" that were not what one might suppose they
were IYKWIM.
There have been very valuable clerics in the recent past giving sermons
or speeches or conferences or classes or monologues or interviews
whose voices were recorded on inadequate media, for any combination
of various reasons, and the common feature of this seems to be that
they guy doing the recording didn't think it was important to take the
necessary steps to make a good quality recording. End of story.
Now, we don't have a useful record of the events, and they will be
therefore forgotten in due time. It's that important.
A lot of sermons and speeches even now are being made by someone
in the audience holding a video camera, or perhaps keeping it on a
tripod (which is much better BTW). But what about the audio??? All
too often, a restless or otherwise noisy child is nearby, and without
the aid of a remote microphone, ambient noises of all kinds are picked
up more clearly by the CONDENSER MIC on the video camera, which is
designed specifically to squelch sounds sourced from a distance (like
the guy giving the speech --- AAA-HHEMM!) in favor of those sourced
from close proximity - like the coughing child, or sneezing adult sitting
even as far as 10 feet away from the camera, in any direction. All of
these problems can be eliminated in the main by using a remote mic.
That puts the priority of the condenser mic on the voice of the speaker
rather than the noises in the audience. Recall a talk show or a
question-and-answer session, where a person in the audience asks
a question or makes a comment, and the guy holding the microphone
looks off to the side because the technical director is shouting at him,
"STOP! WE CAN'T HEAR THE QUESTION! ASK THE PERSON SPEAKING
TO USE THE REMOTE MIC SO THE RECORDING CAN HAVE WHAT HE'S
ASKING INCLUDED IN THE CONTENT!" Or words to that effect. And
the TD gets jaded, feeling like a nag, because he has to keep
reminding the speaker to stop and hand a mic to the remote speaking
person.
The more important the content of the audio, the more important the
quality of the recording....................
It is a DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Topic: Bishop Williamson in Toronto - Confirmation Sermon (Read 1832 times)