Q: I can't watch the Pinky Show videos on my computer. What's wrong?
A: As of this writing (April 2006), episodes on The Pinky Show website are made available as QuickTime movies. Our movies use H.264 compression for the video and AAC compression for the audio, and will play on either Mac or PC. To play these movies, you'll need QuickTime 7.0 or later - you can download it for free here:
Mac users: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/mac.html
Windows users: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html
You can also watch our showing using VideoLAN's VLC media player for Mac or PC (downloadable for free at videolan.org).
Alternatively, you can watch The Pinky Show on YouTube.
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Q: I'd like my friends (or enemies!) to watch an episode. What's the best way for me to have them watch it?
A: Sending them the URL to the page the episode is posted on is probably the easiest way to do it. We also have some of our episodes available on DVD.
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Q: I'd like to show a Pinky Show episode to my class. What's the best way to do this?
A: If you're watching The Pinky Show in a browser window (Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Netscape, etc.), the episodes are probably displaying too small for anything other than personal viewing. Try downloading the movies to your computer's hard drive, and then play them back using the QuickTime Player - you'll be able play the video back at different sizes (200%, full-screen mode, etc.). If you have a computer with a decent sized monitor that you can use for presentations to a class (or better yet, a video proejector), this is probably the 'easiest' way to do it.
If you don't have access to a computer with a large computer monitor, but do have access to a large television set, playing The Pinky Show on the t.v. may be a reasonable solution. Some computers have a 'video out' that allows them to display things on a standard t.v. set (you may need a specialized adapter and/or cable for this - please ask your school's tech resource person, or perhaps a tech-geeky friend for help...?). Or, if you have something like a video iPod, you can load The Pinky Show onto the portable device, and then use a video output cable to send the video/audio to a t.v. set.
Some of our episodes are available on DVD. If there are specific episodes not already on DVD that you are interested in, please send us an e-mail. If we have enough interest from teachers who want specific episodes on DVDs for classroom use, we'll make some.
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