I have decided to start this thread for discussing technical issues that come up rather than messing up the other threads.
I guess the first issue seems to be pasting Word text into posting boxes.
Recently we have had three threads lockup up as a result of posts involving Word text.
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lizboo said: Hello .. anyone had this problem? .. when I click on 'my gallery' tab in my profile, the add photos tabs are not there! I was advised to ask Tiger :)
Hello .. anyone had this problem? .. when I click on 'my gallery' tab in my profile, the add photos tabs are not there! I was advised to ask Tiger :)
Maybe there is not supposed to be a tab. It is more a hyperlink. On my profile it looks like this:
Do you not have such a link?
Just checked and I don't have an add photo link either.
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Have just started a gallery with a test photo in Wildlife but still have no 'add photo' link on my profile page.
Alan I uploaded my photo to my Wildlife Gallery by using the 'new post' link. There is no 'add photo' there either.
Please can you help me.
I wish to be able to make videos from the live cam, but I don't know where to start. Any help here would be much appreciated.
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Hi MOFFER,
I use VLC: www.videolan.org/.../download-windows.html, CIRRUS helped me to get started. It does an awful lot so it looks very complicated in Preferences etc, but I've spent some time getting a simple interface that does what I need.
Main thing - after you've installed it and are running it, click on Media>Open Media Stream... and in the box that comes up C&P this URL:
mms://wms.carnyxlive.co.uk/abernethy/.avi
Then click Play and wait, and the same video footage will appear as on Carnyx.
To record, press the Record button which you should have somewhere on it - as said, I've "customised" mine so much I don't know what appears on the "raw" version.
In View>Customise Interface you can set things up your way.
There is a Snapshot button for... snapshots ;-) As Cirrus says, they come out on the small side.
See how you get on with that :-)
I can't even find Preferences myself now :-(
IMAGICAT
Thank you so much Scylla. I'll give it a go, fingers crossed!
I'm just trying this out to see if it works.
http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee165/denise-birder/?action=view¤t=vlc-record-2011-08-08-22h05m17s-Abernethy-.mp4
Once you get it installed we will (may!) know what each other is talking about to get the fine tuning done.
I also have Debut (not free) - it records from your screen, which in my case means that I get all sorts of other things in my recordings as I forget and surf to my bank account or eBay, so although VLC is complicated and somewhat clunky, at least you don't have to worry about staying on the site you are recording.
I have been thru the settings with a fine-tooth comb and directed it to save recordings and screenshots to specific folders - but that's because my hard drive is partitioned and I have a dedicated partition for data, so that it never gets affected if there's a virus or corruption of C drive.
If you are watching the live stream on VLC and, say, a bird flies in and you press Record ever so quickly, you will miss at least 5 seconds of the action. That's why I have the recording going almost all the time, but then, if the "event" is in the middle of a long recording, one needs to chop off the extra minutes with an editor, and that takes a long time and the recordings take MUCH longer to upload to YouTube - a 2-minute clip that's been extracted takes longer than a 10-minute clip that's untampered with (roughly speaking). But I don't like to make people sit watching nothing happening, waiting for the action, so if poss I edit it. You can imagine it gets a bit fraught if events come thick and fast while you're trying to deal with editing.
I would LOVE to find a professional editing program - velly cheap, of course ;-D
Thank you Scylla. I can record!!!!!!!!!
Heavens above, I never thought that I could do it. I will only record small bits until I get used to it, and won't tackle mamoth sessions like you can.
I too have my PC in partitions, it makes it so much easier to find stuff.
Thank you once again. Lets see how it goes! gulp!!.