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How to rip an audio CD in MS-Windows with Windows Media Player
- Windows Media Player has CD-ripping capabilities built-in, WMA-format used to be the only option and is still the default in Windows 7, but can be changed under menu:”tools” / “options”/ tab:”rip music”
Subtitling Audio Files with Windows Media Player Enhanced Tag Editor
Working with (target language) subtitles is a common requirement in digital language labs.
While the method demonstrated in the following screencast requires some getting used to – remember to share and reuse the result -, the advantage over Sanako Media Assistant subtitling is that the subtitles get stored in the file and not only linked to in a separate file (links tend to/are bound to break if you try to manage your product in course management systems or erepositories): subtitling-with-windows-media-player-enhanced-tag-editor.wmv.
And then there is this very nice capability of YouTube.com: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077, if you dare navigate the waters of copyright, data protection and privacy (FERPA).
Can’t play video?
It is unlikely that you may be missing Adobe-Flash. Not quite so unlikely: MS-Silverlight.
You may simply be missing a codec. Many of my videos use the H.264 codec.
Short of dealing with too many codecs or codec packs, try a better media player:
- VLC player or
- Windows Media Player Classic or
- Windows Media Player 12 (comes with Windows 7)).
Help with playing videos
- Some videos require special codecs to display properly/ at all.
- Here is info on the H.264 codec.
- Often, it is best to try, instead of Windows Media Player (which may be the default player that opens when you (double)click on a video, but not be able to display it without manual configuration),
- the free VLC player which you can download here, if you must, and install, if you are permitted. Then right-click video, “open with”, “VLC media player”, like here:
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