austraLasia #3346
MONTEVIDEO: 9 January 2013 -- Someone in Uruguay Province is very clever indeed! They have made it their speciality to provide brief little video spots which nicely sum up Salesian spirituality. The problem of course is that they do this in Spanish - problem for us, not for them :-)
So, in the interests of internationalisation, austraLasia is making the same videos available with English subtitles. It is not the most perfect way to do it, but it certainly beats having them in Spanish for those who do not understand Spanish!
There are 3 videos in all, a maximum of 3 or 4 minutes playing time each. We have saved them in mp4 format as db1.mp4, db2.mp4 and db3.mp4. this format should be generally playable in people's web browsers - certainly will work in browsers such as Firefox or Chrome.
http://sdl.sdb.org/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off-0english-italian%2cportugues%2cespanol%2cenglish-01-2----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--10-EN-50---20-about---00-3-1-00-0--4--0--0-0-01-10-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=english&cl=CL2.9.25
Other than a browser, probably the best video player to use for this kind of thing is VLC. VLC will open almost anything - might even open a bottle of beer for you if you are lucky! But the mp4 format can be opened by a wide range of video players. If you really want it in another format, such as ogg or flv, just ask. It will not be difficult to provide.
Of course, there are some clever digital natives out there in EAO who, once they see this effort and the subtitles, might be able to reproduce the videos fully in English. If that is the case, please let us know!
If you know a little Spanish, or at least know that you can ask most websites to be translated automatically by Google, then http://www.salesianosuruguay.org/mauxi is well worth a visit. It is a Salesian website with a difference. Full of pastoral resources, a library of materials largely in video format, the possibilities for new styled digital resources here are enormous.here.
MONTEVIDEO: 9 January 2013 -- Someone in Uruguay Province is very clever indeed! They have made it their speciality to provide brief little video spots which nicely sum up Salesian spirituality. The problem of course is that they do this in Spanish - problem for us, not for them :-)
So, in the interests of internationalisation, austraLasia is making the same videos available with English subtitles. It is not the most perfect way to do it, but it certainly beats having them in Spanish for those who do not understand Spanish!
There are 3 videos in all, a maximum of 3 or 4 minutes playing time each. We have saved them in mp4 format as db1.mp4, db2.mp4 and db3.mp4. this format should be generally playable in people's web browsers - certainly will work in browsers such as Firefox or Chrome.
http://sdl.sdb.org/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off-0english-italian%2cportugues%2cespanol%2cenglish-01-2----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--10-EN-50---20-about---00-3-1-00-0--4--0--0-0-01-10-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=english&cl=CL2.9.25
Other than a browser, probably the best video player to use for this kind of thing is VLC. VLC will open almost anything - might even open a bottle of beer for you if you are lucky! But the mp4 format can be opened by a wide range of video players. If you really want it in another format, such as ogg or flv, just ask. It will not be difficult to provide.
Of course, there are some clever digital natives out there in EAO who, once they see this effort and the subtitles, might be able to reproduce the videos fully in English. If that is the case, please let us know!
If you know a little Spanish, or at least know that you can ask most websites to be translated automatically by Google, then http://www.salesianosuruguay.org/mauxi is well worth a visit. It is a Salesian website with a difference. Full of pastoral resources, a library of materials largely in video format, the possibilities for new styled digital resources here are enormous.here.
