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--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:08:39 -0500
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum   
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>Subject: Re: #8472.1 (!) Jules & Jim Interactif problems
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Nope, it is a true DVD-ROM, comparable to a CD-ROM except that it works 
with video clips of the entire film. so it doesn't play in a DVD player 
at all (I tried it to make sure, though). It uses Quicktime for the 
video and Macromedia Projector (?) for the framework.

It's pretty cool, actually--I was rather enchanted with it when I was 
testing it.

The problem is intermittent. I tried it today and it worked, but the 
last 5 times I tried it did not. It is VERY slow coming up, so maybe it 
only works when you slow down and avoid trying to click on the button 
more than once. The Thompson-Heinle people had no worthwhile advice.

Judy

LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>>Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:55:36 -0500
>>From: "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"   
> 
> <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Re: #8472 Jules & Jim Interactif problems
>>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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> 
> Have you tried it on a regular DVD player using the DVD player remote for
> control? DVD players are capable of running interactive content. It may be
that
> the DVD viewing software on the computers is just not that good at handling
> interactive DVDs, whereas it might play just fine on a run of the mill DVD
> player hooked up to a TV or projector.
> 
> David Flores
> Director: Language Learning Center
> Loyola College in Maryland
> 4501 North Charles Street
> Baltimore, MD 21210
> Ph: (410) 617-5230
> Fax: (410) 617 2859
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>>>>LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> 2/22/2007 1:17 PM >>>
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> --- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:45:42 -0500
>>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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> Gecko/20050728
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>>To: llti <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Jules & Jim Interactif problems
> 
> 
> One of our instructors adopted this interactive DVD from 
> Thompson-Heinle. It is posing a problem because it will not play on many 
> computers. It has no helpful information about requirements (I am 
> guessing that Quicktime is needed but that is not specified).
> 
> The number one calls for help is pretty useless (oh, yeah, an 
> interactive DVD? Probably you need to upgrade your Flash...). The 
> instructor told me that when she sent an email to the address specified 
> she got a reply saying that address was essentially out of order....
> 
> For a while the only computer in our open lab where one could use it was 
> the one in my office. Two students came in with copies they had 
> purchased and tried it on that computer and it would not open, but our 
> lab copy would open every time.
> 
> The instructor wanted a classroom where she could demonstrate the DVD 
> and run through some exercises in class. She tried 2 different regular 
> classrooms but the DVD would not play (though it plays on her office 
> computer). So last week I tested it on the instructor computer in one of 
> our classrooms, and it played fine; I booked her into the twin classroom 
> (whose instructor computer drive is a clone of the one that played the 
> DVD).
> 
> Today we tried 2 different copies of the DVD on the two instructor 
> computers--the one in the room I assigned and the one on which I had 
> been able to run the disc last week. The results varied: sometimes it 
> crashed the computer (a "stop error"). Sometimes it just hung after one 
> clicked on the "open" button, continuing the process of opening for as 
> long as one might wish, but never actually showing the interface.
> 
> Is anyone else using this item successfully (or not) please let me know.
> 
> Judy
> 
> 
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