Wheee, SGA! Now, if only it weren't moving in slow motion.

thegrrrl2002, I got the codecs! (I also have the story, oh man do I have the story, paintguns and everything).

It's a million times better, thank you. wildernessguru asked me last night: "So how's it going?"

"Progress has been made. I have a picture. The pictures are moving. And I have sound."

I was able to get DivX to work, and it plays so much more smoothly than Windows Media Player with better sound quality.

The Century Hotel clip plays like a dream, but for some reason on the SGA episodes, the video runs at 15 seconds per second while the audio plays at a normal rate... until it starts skipping and repeating. Sometimes it almost works, other times the video is far behind the audio in slo-mo.

Slo-mo Rodney is better than No-mo Rodney, but I have a feeling this should be something simple.

I'm not sure if there's a setting I should adjust for an .avi recording of HDTV, or if the codecs for WMP and DivX are interfering with each other-?

Flist, oh techies, any ideas? I'm running Win98 with the older version of DivX since the current one won't run on my system. (My processing speed is too slow to run WinXP, alas.)

Archive your fics.

painless_j has declared this international Archive Your Fics Week.

For the good of the fans she asks that you archive your fics in a variety of major (and stable) archives. Your LJ could someday be deleted, or f-locked. You might marry the Prince of Bhutan and have little interest in such trivialities as fanfiction in years to come -- but people will still want to read your stories.

I have another far more self-serving reason to archive your fics in numerous locations: Marketing. In other words, building a readership.

How many times have I heard someone complain "I never get any reviews" or "My work is barely read by anyone"?

I always ask, "Well, where have you posted it?"

Invariably they say, "Just in my LJ" or "In my LJ and X archive." And I have to laugh.

I had a friend named Suzanne who had a sexy contralto voice and a southern accent, and at times like these I like to imitate her, "Well, honey, I don't see how anybody's gonna find that story hidden down there under a bushel."

Look at it from the readers' point of view: ( Your story is a moving target. )

( I recommend for Harry Potter readers: )

( What if you have tons of stories? )

Lastly, to reach your future loyal and beloved readers, there is no substitute for character and pairing-specific archives. They're obscure, yet, like that "special street corner" where your drug of choice can be found, the addicts all seem to know where to go.