Bal-Pac 50 System - Video

Select the appropriate Windows Media Player configuration for streaming the English or Spanish language version of the video:

• Embedded Player (English) - Streams video for IE and Firefox browsers
• Separate Player (English) - Streams video only for Microsoft's IE browser

• Embedded Player (Spanish) - Streams video for IE and Firefox browsers
• Separate Player (Spanish) - Streams video only for Microsoft's IE browser

Usage Guide: The Bal-Pac System video file was encoded to run in the Microsoft Windows Media Player. It was formatted as a wmv file by Microsoft software to begin streaming video in seconds after clicking one of the links above. Without the streaming format, this video file would need to be fully downloaded before it would even start to play in a Windows Media Player window. Yet although it has the capability to stream, this file may not stream unless the following conditions are satisfied...

You need to have a broadband connection to the internet to allow the immediate and smooth streaming of any long video file, while it continues to be downloaded in the background to your hard drive. If you only have a dial up connection or a slow broadband connection less than 1000KB per second, the video won't be able to stream without long pauses, and you will have to wait for the full download of the video file before it starts to run smoothly on your screen from your hard drive.

If you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, IE7 for instance, to view this page, then clicking anyone of the links above will allow the video to stream in the video player window that appears. Specifically, clicking an Embedded Player link will stream the video in a Player window on a balboa-pacific.com web page, where the video will initially be displayed at its 100% size of 640 by 480 pixels. In addition, double clicking the left mouse button on the Embedded Player view will cause the video to toggle to Full Screen and back again. Clicking the Separate Player link will display the video in Microsoft's own, separate Windows Media Player window. You probably have this Media Player already installed on your local computer. If you don't, a message and link to download it from the internet will appear. The Separate Player window from Microsoft also provides you with some extra audio/video controls. The Separate Player allows you to resize the video (50/100/200% and Full screen) by clicking the right mouse button and selecting a Size option from the popup menu.

If you are using other popular non-Microsoft browsers like Mozilla Firefox to view this page, then you need to click one of the Embedded Player links above and ignore the Separate Player links. Firefox will only stream a Microsoft encoded file if the Windows Media Player is Embedded on a web page. If you click on a Separate Player link above, Firefox will first display a dialog box that forces a full download of the file before it ever starts to run in the Player window. This will cause several minutes of wait time. Another Firefox constraint is that your local computer must have the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin (file name "np-mswmp.dll") installed in your C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins directory. Of course, any latest version of Firefox that you downloaded earlier should have installed this plugin for you automatically.

No attempt has been made to test all the other internet browsers available for the proper streaming of this video. It is fair to assume, however, that any other non-Microsoft browsers will have installed the appropriate Windows Media Player plugin for streaming, and will perform streaming only if the Player is embedded in a web page. Hence, it is recommended that all non-Microsoft browser users first click on one of the Embedded Player links.