Questions & Answers 'n Stuff

How do I play a movie?
Each of the listed topics point to a movie on the CD. Click on one of these topics and a movie will start to play in a popup window.

I get a broken QuickTime icon but no movie in the movie window.
You haven't installed QuickTime on your machine. Close the VTC Movie Player and browser and then install QuickTime which you will find on the VTC CD.

I get a message saying that the movie cannot be found
The CD needs to be in the drive when playing movies.

When using Netscape Navigator, I click on a movie title & get a dialog box asking to save the movie to my hard disk, or it launches the movie player
Go to the Preferences in your browser and check the helper applications being used. Look for QuickTime Movies as the description, then click on edit for that description. Make sure the QuickTime movies are being handled by the Plug-In for QuickTime.

I can see the movie playing but can't hear sound
Your speakers or headphones must be plugged into the sound card, not the CD jack in front of your computer. Make sure the sound card is working and the speakers turned up.

On installation of QuickTime I get a fatal exception error.
You may have an incompatibility between your video card and QuickTime. Make sure you are using the most recent video card driver or ask your manufacturer if their video card is compatible with QuickTime.
You can also check any problems with QuickTime at the website for QuickTime from Apple Computer

Tips and Tricks
When playing a movie you can pause by clicking on the movie window, and restart by double clicking on the same window.

To fast forward or rewind, drag the small bar in the slider at the bottom of the movie left or right.

You can control the sound level by moving the sliding bar at the bottom left corner of the movie, next to the pause/play button.

Also, you can increase the sound level more by holding down the shift key and clicking on the sound button as above. This allows you to move the sound level up another two notches.

You can use your application at the same time as the movie.

You will only be able to play one movie at a time, but it uses the same movie window. This way you can leave a movie open, and click on another title. The movie changes to the beginning of that newly selected topic.

Close the movie windows and player using the normal close method for windows: by clicking on the left or right close box, depending on what system you are using.