2017.07.29 13:00 - Downloading Movies and MP3's

2017.07.29 13:00 - Title goes here

The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

Qt Core: Hi Bruce

Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Qt.

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Bruce Mowbray: Sorry if you came last week -- because I couldn't get here.

Qt Core: np it was quiet, something i needed

Bruce Mowbray: :)

Qt Core: i need to drink, brb

Bruce Mowbray: kk.

Qt Core: back

Bruce Mowbray: Have you brought your bike out of winter storage yet?

Qt Core: no and i doubt i will, if i ever start doing some exercising this summer it will be by feet

Bruce Mowbray nods.

Bruce Mowbray: That's the only exercise I get - walking. I walk a mile every day, actually.

Bruce Mowbray: listing to podcasts or books while I walk.

Bruce Mowbray: After I finish "Anna Karenina," I'd like to listen to the "Foundation Trilogy."

Bruce Mowbray: (Asimov)

Qt Core: i quite dislike the part from my home to the park, as it is very "urban" and boring, but i also find quite stupid to take the car to go walking

Bruce Mowbray nods.

Bruce Mowbray: You're welcome to use my road . . . it is VERY rural.

Qt Core: love the trilogy

Bruce Mowbray: Five miles to the nearest village.

Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I've never read it, but it comes highly recommended.

Qt Core: while i have/had no problem with the transition between paper and ebooks i never tried audiobooks, and the idea does not really intrigue me

Bruce Mowbray: What I like about audio books is that I can listen while doing other things - like driving the car, walking, or housework.

Qt Core: there is the radio for that ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: Actually, I listen to mp3's that I've made of long essays or from mp4 videos, also.

Bruce Mowbray: I'll copy a long essay to WORD, then make an audio recording of that, then put that on my mp3 player for listening later.

Bruce Mowbray: I do my best thinking when I walk.

Qt Core: i think i'm lagging behind in the podcast and streaming tv dept.

Bruce Mowbray: It's impossible not to lag behind -- there is so much stuff out there.

Bruce Mowbray: If I go to YouTube on a subject I enjoy, I don't escape until I've downloaded about ten videos.

Qt Core: and while i have an usb stick... stuck in my car with some of my favourite music i find those song much better when randomly found in radio waves

Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh!

Bruce Mowbray: Here's what I use to download any YouTube file:

Bruce Mowbray: https://ytd-video-downloader-free.en.softonic.com/

Bruce Mowbray: (including music, of course).

Qt Core: something about impermanence and luck, maybe

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Bruce Mowbray nods.

Bruce Mowbray: Letting the fates flow things to you at the "righ” time....

Bruce Mowbray thinks there is something not working right with his keyboard. . . Too many keys aren't making it into type when I push them.

Qt Core: when i need I use this https://youtubedownloader.com/  (last several uses were about downloading converting youtube music video as ringtones)

Bruce Mowbray: I've never used it for that . . . I just use it for downloading videos. It is free and works great.

Bruce Mowbray: If the vids are mostly talking, I might convert those to mp3's later -- for listening while I walk, etc.

Bruce Mowbray: I did that this morning with a talk that Steven Pinker gave at GOOGLE -- an hour long, then listened to it during my walk today.

Qt Core: the one i use converts it on mp3 while downloading... just did it a few days ago, an anime theme of the late '70 early '80 played on piano

Bruce Mowbray: ahhh!

Qt Core: (silly me)

Bruce Mowbray: :)

Qt Core: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS1GGLemAiQ (many colleagues almost hate me as i never have conventional ringtones)

Bruce Mowbray: ha ha.

Bruce Mowbray: My ringtone sounds just like a telephone. . . I mean, a regular telephone or, say, one from the 1950's.

Qt Core: The anime is about the yellowish robot the guy has on the piano itself

Bruce Mowbray: Cooool ringtone you've got there!

Qt Core: i had that for some time, but i prefer to be sure it is mine that is ringing, especially in crowded places

Bruce Mowbray: Magnifico!

Qt Core: it seems the guy made an entire album of piano interpretation of '80 anime theme

Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I am watching them right now...

Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuvnT7wOf1E&list=PLR9ljdjhoPIrnnB0zUnQPAEyGC1tZO4Dm&index=4

Bruce Mowbray: 15 different ones.

Qt Core: some really hit me, those were the theme of my early teen years toons ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: ahhhh.

Qt Core: and i always loved big robots ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: :)

Bruce Mowbray: Speaking of BIG robots... just a sec. I also watched these in Ottawa, Canada this morning....

Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRZ-KgUnWU&feature=push-u&attr_tag=Vw6rm1C0G64ZGdhs-6

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Qt Core: i'd like to know why SL strongly interferes with videos playing, if i keep the browser window hidden all is good if i try to keep it visible death-lag

Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5m6tsfoNdc

Bruce Mowbray: I put the Second Life browser on the right and the browser (Chrome) on the left in a separate window. No problems so far.

Bruce Mowbray: Those are some BIG robots!

Qt Core: it always was that way, it interferes with the playing of the video, not the downloading part

Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Might be an ISP conflict.

Qt Core: why on daylight, by night it would be much better i think

Bruce Mowbray nods.

Bruce Mowbray: When I download movies, I do it through Indonesia -- where it is night when it is day where I am.

Bruce Mowbray: Solar eclipse is only three weeks from Monday. . .

Qt Core: lately i had to get a new router from my isp... and now i wonder why i can't download anything ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: oh my.

Qt Core: anything as no movies, strangely the sharing files app can't find anything anymore

Bruce Mowbray: When I download full-length movies, I go through a VPN in Indonesia.

Bruce Mowbray: Do you use Pirate Bay and a p2p file-sharing program like VUZE?

Qt Core: i'm ignoring the issue until i get a real craving for something to download ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: ahhh, good plan.

Qt Core: at the moment im more in a debate with myself about subscribing to Netflix for the incoming new star trek series (star trek discovery)

Bruce Mowbray: I have friends who subscribe to Netflix, not me, though.

Bruce Mowbray: They like it.

Qt Core: i fear i would like it too much... at least SL is interactive ;-)

Bruce Mowbray: Yeah, easy to get addicted to that stuff.

Bruce Mowbray: I watch about one movie per day as it is!

Bruce Mowbray: I watched "Minority Report" (again) last night.   (Tom Cruise)

Bruce Mowbray: -- because I was thinking about "swarm intelligence" and I remembered those little spyder robots...

Qt Core: having got used to youtube videos i find it a little difficult to follow entire movies lately... an example, i have the Interstellar DVD a friend lended me on my desk, just in front of me now... i is there since almost six months...

Bruce Mowbray: Ha!

Bruce Mowbray: I watched "Interstellar" when it first came out. . . .

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Qt Core: yes i went to the big screen too, but after a conference of an astrophysicist about it and the science in and behind it i wanted to see it again

Bruce Mowbray loves time-travel movies.

Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I understand that they employed a scientist to advise them on the specifics.

Bruce Mowbray tries to remember who that was. . . . Sean Carroll?

Qt Core: Kip Thorne

Bruce Mowbray: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/parsing-the-science-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/

Qt Core: won an Oscar with the movie, will probably win a Nobel for the detection of gravitational waves

Bruce Mowbray: Cool! Well, sir, it's time for me to be scraping up supper.

Bruce Mowbray: Have a fine weekend!

Qt Core: ty, enjoy

Bruce Mowbray: bye for now.

Qt Core: bye