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How to Hear Lectures and See Slides
Audio Controls
Troubleshooting
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How to Hear the Lectures and View the Accompanying Slides

Lectures & Breakouts
Each page of this segment of the site has both slide and RealAudio content. The audio of the lecture corresponds with the appropriate slide. You may go through each page linearly by listening to the entire lecture, or you may jump to various portions of the lecture. To select a page or portion of the lecture to which you would like to jump, use the small play button under the thumbnail image of the slide. You might be required to wait a bit until all of the audio content is loaded.

You may also view an enlarged version of the slide image by clicking on the small magnifying glass also located beneath the thumbnail image. The enlarged image window contains "Next" and "Back" buttons. These buttons can be used to move through the images at your leisure to study them in more detail. To close this window, simply click the close button on the menubar.

Downloading the RealPlayer

To view the lecture slides and hear the audio, you need to have RealPlayer installed on your computer. The following instructions will assist you in downloading and using the RealPlayer. In order to listen to a Conference.CAST presentation you must have the most recent version of the RealAudio player installed on your computer.

The RealAudio player will allow you to hear CD quality audio over the Internet as long as you have at least a 14.4 Kbps modem. You can get the RealAudio player at www.real.com. There are two products available for each version of the application, RealPlayer and RealPlayer Plus.

Look for the free RealPlayer.

The RealPlayer Plus offers additional features but it is not free

There are very detailed instructions on the RealPlayer site that will lead you through the installation of the player. At the end, there is a test file which will play automatically for you if the player has been successfully installed.

Once you have installed the RealPlayer G2, you will see the following controls on all Conference.CAST presentations.

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Audio Controls

BUTTON OR ICON	FUNCTION
Conference.CAST icon	Links to this page whenever you need help.
Play/Pause button	Pauses the lecture at any time. Click again to resume playing.
Stop button	Stops the presentation and returns it to the beginning.
Slide Position Controller	Advances to any point in the presentation. Click and hold the slider to start the lecture at any point.When you move this slider it is necessary for the player to "rebuffer".This is normal, and may take several seconds. The presentation will start to play again as soon as it has "rebuffered".
Time Display	Displays the total length of the presentation and which segment is currently playing. When the numbers on the left are counting, you should be able to hear audio. Make sure your speakers volume is up.

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Troubleshooting

Conference.CAST uses cutting edge technology to bring lectures to you over the internet using standard telephone lines. If you are having problems listening to a lecture at any time, these tips may help you.

Known Troubleshooting Issues for Macs using Netscape Navigator, Version 4.05 and below.
The Conference.CAST Presentation Module uses state of the art programming technologies to provide the user the most intuitive and interactive experience possible.   However, Mac users viewing the site with Netscape Navigator, version 4.05 and below WILL experience some problems. To resolve possible conflicts, we strongly recommend that you download and install the most recent version of Netscape Navigator, or Internet Explorer from these links:

What does it mean when the player is rebuffering?
Conference.CAST uses streaming technology to deliver the audio of the presentations to you as you need them. This means that instead of sending one large audio file that would take a long time to download, our servers send small segments of the lecture to your computer as you need them.

When the player loses connection to the server for a number of different reasons, it needs to rebuffer the signal of the audio. The reason for this rebuffering could be anything from network congestion between you and our streaming server, to your browser doing something else, such as downloading another file.

My RealPlayer keeps needing to rebuffer. Why?
Depending on your connection speed to the internet, you may experience network congestion which will force the RealPlayer to rebuffer. If you are having this problem, we suggest that you pause the audio when a new image is downloading. This will allow the browser to download the image. Once the image is done, restart the audio by pressing the play button. This will eliminate the need to rebuffer 99% of the time.

What are the minimum system requirements?

Still Having Problems?

If you are still having problems hearing the audio or seeing the RealPlayer Plugin on the page then please consult the RealNetworks Service and Support Page. There, one can find information on how to manually configure the web browser, answers to frequently asked questions, and the most current technical information.

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