10/05/2007 - Thursday

Commiserations to Switzerland who failed to make it into the final of this years Eurovision, even though they had a great song. The songs that did make it were good songs, but there were a few better ones that failed to make it too. The one country that I was happy for getting through was Moldova who have a great song as well.

I ended up watching the semi-final online so that I could record Holby City on one of the other computers in my room. To watch the online video stream I had to install a plugin which connected to the actual video stream. I then had to open Windows Media Player which connected to the plugin to play the video. The only thing wrong with it is that it was buffering too much and also skipping chunks of the video. I tried closing WMP and using VLC to do it, but that couldn't connect to the server (the plugin). In the end I had to open WMP, connect to the server, open VLC, connect to the server (which actually connected and displayed the video stream), then hit stop in WMP but leave it open. I was then able to watch it fine in VLC without any buffering or skips. Yay for VLC!