Greg asks:

> Cool.
>
>  One question - is it possible to download a presentation to play offline at
>  my convenience? If so, how? Save-to-disk produced an 8kb file for one
>  presentation, which seems a tad small for the content shown.

The 8kb file is just the orchestrating script for the presentation. For all
practical purposes, it's identical to an HTTP script, although we call the
language "van Gogh." A normal hour-long lecture consumes about 10-15 MB.

But you can easily do what you want. Click on the lecture's hyperlink and let
it start downloading. Immediately then press the SPACE BAR, which will pause
the presentation. The lecture will continue to download in background, into
the player's cache, until completion.

Now that the lecture is in completely in cache, you can play it anytime you
wish, without a connection to the internet, by clicking on the lecture script
file, which is designated with a ".qcshow" designation.

A lecture will have this architecture. Presume that the name of the lecture
is "chaplin": it will be in a folder in the player's cache named:

      chaplin

Inside this folder will be three items:

      o the script: chaplin.qcshow
      o a resources folder, containing sound and image files
      o a thumbnails folder, containing the search images

So long as there is a completely filled resources folder below the script,
you don't need to connect to the internet and you can watch the lectures offline.

Alternatively, if you want to save the lecture permanently on your machine
and not rely on cache, rightclick on the screen while the player is running and
save the lecture anywhere you wish. The same folder/subdirectory architecture
outlined above will still exist. It's just that the lecture will now be two
places on your machine, once in cache and once wherever you saved it.

Wirt Atmar

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