All the pictures in this section are
presented in thumbnails. Left clicking on the thumbnail will
enlarge the picture for viewing. The lightness and darkness of the
picture will depend upon your monitor. Most pictures are displayed
for LCD monitors. However, if the pictures are too dark or too
light, adjust the brightness control on your monitor to obtain the best
quality.
Videos can be viewed with a wide range
of browsers. FLASH 9 is the main video format used. It is
cross platform and the high band width videos are of good quality.
However, dial-up videos are presented in WMV 9. Examples of
FLASH videos are the videos on
Sinus Surgery,
Tonsillectomy
and
Tympanoplasty and
Larynx Cancer with a Laryngocele.
Windows Media Video (WMV) can be viewed
with Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Safari.
Some updated high resolution videos are published in Windows Media Video
9 VC-1 format. This format gives a higher quality picture with
fast motion and 13% greater compression than with previous Windows Media
9 formats. Windows Media Player 11 is fully compatible with this
format and comes standard with Windows VISTA. Windows Media Player
9 will automatically install an update (if you wait about 1 minute) to
allow viewing. Otherwise install Windows Media Player 11 on an XP
computer. All videos will play on XP and Vista Operating Systems
using Windows Media Player 11.
As of 12/20/2007 Windows Media Player 9
for the Macintosh will not play VC-1 Videos. Windows Media
Player 11 or an update for WMP 9 is not available. Use
the "Macintosh Video WMV 9" screen button to view the video.
This will download the video at 368 Kbps. If a dial-up speed
is needed, select this option and it is also compatible with the
Macintosh. If the "Macintosh Video WMV 9" button
is not present all videos are of an older version and should be
compatible. The Dial-Up video should always work.
On Linux (Ubuntu) operating systems can
view almost all of the videos on the website. Windows Media Video
(WMV) requires the MPlayer Plug In embedded video player for Mozilla.
Flash 9 Videos are compatible. However, multiple videos embeded in
a single FLASH presentation (ear surgery, tympanoplasty, tonsillectomy
and sinus surgery) require FLash Player Version 9.0.115.0 Date
12/3/2007.
Download FLASH Video Player
A second format is REAL VIDEO.
This format is available for videos posted before November 2007.
It is being phased out on our system.
Newer videos posted after December 1,
2007 are offered in FLASH 9 only. three speeds are available for
most videos: 1024 Kbps, 512 Kbps, and 256 Kbp. A high speed
connection in needed. There is still a 46 Kbps WMV download speed
option available for Dial-Up users. However, this setting results
in a very poor quality video and is now infrequently used by many
viewers. This setting may be dropped in the future.
Kevin T Kavanagh, MD
