No Use Notes

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No Use for Bench Notes .mpg (obsolete link) is a video which demonstrates video production software, sored in .mpg format, a format used for video files which are to be transmitted to other computers on the Internet. It has been set up so that it has to be downloaded, then opened in an .mpg player. You can look at other pages in your browser while the file is downloading ("saving to disk").

.Mpg players are freely distributed at many sites on the Internet if your browser and your operating system do not already have the "plug in". A search for "TuCows" will turn up an archive holding .mpg players. There is a TuCows mirror at http://www.dove.net.au/ (obsolete link)

Software like this can be very useful, but not for judges or magistrates trying to make notes in an electronic benchbook. As it is here to demonstrate how user need determines the choices which ought to be made about software, it has not been "cleaned up" as, for example, a road safety advertisement would be "cleaned up" before it was made available for playing.

It is another big file, 12000K. A file of this size should be encoded for streaming, so that the viewer watches it play while downloading is in progress. This could cause complications when the file is played from CDRom, so it has not been encoded.

The first/last sound bite is a computer recording of a short extract taken, for research and discussion purposes, from a commercial CD by using the Windows95 sound recorder. It demonstrates how easy it is for people to take copyright material and reproduce it in a new form.

The file was "written" in a motel room in Mt. Gambier, while on the South East circuit.