The video stream provided by the Vbrick is a WMV (Windows Media File) format. To play this file:
On a Mac:
In order to open the video stream automatically using QuickTime on a Mac, you must have Flip4Mac installed, which is a plugin that allows QuickTime to play WMV files. Download the plugin:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/windows-media-player/wmcomponents
If Quicktime still fails to open the stream, download VLC Media Player:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Once installed:
On a PC running Windows XP:
On most PCs, Windows Media Player will open automatically when the link is clicked. If the link does not open automatically:
On a PC running Windows 7:
If the link does not open automatically in Windows Media Player:
On a PC Using VLC:
If Windows Media Player fails to open the file on a PC, you can use VLC media player. Download VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Once installed:
This event is part of Gettysburg College’s American Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration. The College will sponsor events and programs throughout the anniversary that runs from 2011-2015 with special focus on 2013, which marks the 150th anniversary of the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. For more information, visit www.gettysburg.edu/cw2013 and www.gettysburgcivilwar150.com.
Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College) played a vital role in the Civil War, with more than 200 alumni serving the Union or Confederacy, and the College’s Pennsylvania Hall functioning as an observation post and hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg. On November 19, 1863, College students and faculty processed to hear Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Earlier in the year, an 1851 graduate of the College, prominent attorney David Wills, had invited Lincoln to deliver a few appropriate remarks” at the cemetery’s dedication, and the president stayed with the Wills family on the square the night before delivering his famous speech.