A&Q about Lotus
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Originally Posted by Elysium
Is this the movie you've all been trying to view?
The problem is, I think it can only be viewed with the Google player. If it was regular WMV or MPEG, I'd grab it.
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Originally Posted by Spudboy
The problem is, I think it can only be viewed with the Google player. If it was regular WMV or MPEG, I'd grab it.
There's a "Download" button on the Google Video page that will get you an AVI file that doesn't require any fancy Google/Flash player.
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Originally Posted by dododge
There's a "Download" button on the Google Video page that will get you an AVI file that doesn't require any fancy Google/Flash player.
The download button forces you to get the Google player. Are you saying if I d/l the player and then d/l the video with it, I'll get an AVI?
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Originally Posted by Spudboy
The download button forces you to get the Google player. Are you saying if I d/l the player and then d/l the video with it, I'll get an AVI?
You shouldn't need any sort of Google player.
When I hit the "Download" button that appeared on the same web page as that video, Firefox popped up its download manager and started to save the file. I tried playing the partially-downloaded file with "xine" (a Linux video player) and it worked fine. I think the resulting AVI contains Divx video, so it's possible whatever non-web player you want to use will need a plugin for that.
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Originally Posted by dododge
You shouldn't need any sort of Google player.
When I hit the "Download" button that appeared on the same web page as that video, Firefox popped up its download manager and started to save the file. I tried playing the partially-downloaded file with "xine" (a Linux video player) and it worked fine. I think the resulting AVI contains Divx video, so it's possible whatever non-web player you want to use will need a plugin for that.
When I click download, it wants to load the Google player. If I try to do a manual download, it just grabs a Google player stub file!
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Cool video, it was well-made and I learned a lot.
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Yeah really great to see that , watched the whole thing. I wonder if what they said about the brakes still holds true. Basically the rotors are aluminum/ceramic alloy that are supposed to last 100,000 miles ? And the pads kind of melt on the surface creating a liquid layer that is compressed to brake the car not rub on the surface of the rotor !
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I was told that the brake rotor manufacturer had been changed long ago due to cracks. I don't know if the rotors are as high tech as before. Who is the new supplier?
I thought it would have flowed much better if the video was edited down to 1 hour. It's hard to entice a non-Lotus person to watch it when they learn it's over 2 hours.
Certainly no need to go for 3 drives with the engineer only to learn he didn't read the manual on how to properly use the speed sensor.
Overall very fascinating to watch. Interesting how the original concept so closely followed Julian's Dino. (I like the looks of the original Elise better than our Fed cars.)
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Originally Posted by delise
Yeah really great to see that , watched the whole thing. I wonder if what they said about the brakes still holds true. Basically the rotors are aluminum/ceramic alloy that are supposed to last 100,000 miles ? And the pads kind of melt on the surface creating a liquid layer that is compressed to brake the car not rub on the surface of the rotor !
unfortunately the aluminium/ceramic brake disks (MMC) were only on the first few years of of the S1. The supply was difficult to manage and quality control difficult so conventional cast iron disks are now used.