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The TVClubHouse: Big Brother 8 ARCHIVES: Big Brother 8 - Part 2: Big Brother Viewer- free and works with Vista users admin

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Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
not sure if I should have started this thread but after reading about people having trouble with Vista I thought I'd share.

Just made sure that my realplayer and free BB viewer worked with Vista.

not a problem!

Love BB viewer!! all four feeds opened in Separate windows...all four with Sound so I can mute three when seeing something interesting occurring on another feed.

I remember the old days of Watching only one feed at a time on Realplayer. So much fun is lost.

Often two feeds at a time are on one area so you get a far away shot and a upclose face shot.

watching both at the same time gives a complete picture of expressions close up and body language in the far away cam.

I'm ready to go! Start the feeds! LOL I know I know, I have to wait until after 9pm.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
What is it Sunshyne? I'm not familiar with Vista, either.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
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Reiki
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08-12-2000

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reiki a private message Print Post    
Windows Vista is still new enough that not everything is "Vista ready" yet.

I have Vista and have found that RealTV doesn't work well with it. It seemed to install fine, but after awhile I got an error code and it didn't work.

Thanks for the tip Sun.

Melissamm68
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07-07-2005

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Melissamm68 a private message Print Post    
Thanks for posting about the BBviewer (you can get it from bbviewer.com). I could never get RealTV to work right and got frustrated so gave up. But this BBviewer is great for having multiple feeds playing or muted all at the same time, and look forward to not missing anything by having to switch and wait for feeds to load. Thanks again!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, July 06, 2007 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I just tried this out and it seems really nice.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, July 06, 2007 - 11:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Ok, I must be really technically challenged, but I'm not seeing how there are individual audio controls. When I click on the button, it goes to just one feed. Do you have to open up 4 different players and run them all at once? I'm confused...but that's nothing new. LOL

Melissamm68
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07-07-2005

Friday, July 06, 2007 - 11:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Melissamm68 a private message Print Post    
I'm not an expert, but I just opened up different viewers for each feed and then muted the ones I didn't want to watch.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 12:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
not sure what you mean by nothing new Watching. BBviewer has been around for awhile and isnt new.

you cant open up Four Realplayers at the same time so it is way better for watching feeds.

I'm just puzzled as to the comment as it WAS new for me last year and could be new for others this year.

and its free!

Leafsweetie
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06-29-2005

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 6:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Leafsweetie a private message Print Post    
Okay, mine loads, then stops. So I don't see anything.

Leafsweetie
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06-29-2005

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 6:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Leafsweetie a private message Print Post    
All I see is in one corner it says: to view this co... thats about it.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's strange because it works perfectly for me. I like it a lot. You can have it on quad feed and then if you see something interesting on one of the cameras you can click on it to switch to it, or ctrl click to open up a new window for that channel. You can screen cap. You can easily switch between the feeds. It snaps to position so it's easy to set up multiple screens. I think that you're right though that you don't have separate volumes for the quad unless you open up four screens?

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
I used BB Viewer last year too. I open two of them..one for Quad and then an individual one. I turn off the volume to the quad and listen to the other one.

Bourque77
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05-02-2006

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bourque77 a private message Print Post    
I use BBViewer ... read the notecard that comes with it, for handy tips ... such as Shift + Left click opens another same sized window.

I open 4 windows, put them in four corners of desktop.

click cam 1, 2, 3, 4 in them.

there is one icon on the camera that "mutes all others" ... so you can instantly get the sound ON the view you want and "MUTE" the other three with one click! outstanding!

Cnicm
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06-01-2005

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cnicm a private message Print Post    
thanks for the info on bbviewer... I guess I missed it before... I got it working just fine!!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's the way I do it as well Hypermom. I mute the quad but leave it open so I can see what is going on from all the feeds. Then I have an individual bigger one for the feed that I'm interested in at the moment and then just switch to other feeds if they get interesting. Your approach is good as well Bourque with the "mutes all others" button.

Pinniethewooh
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07-14-2005

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pinniethewooh a private message Print Post    
bbviewer doesn't seem to work with my vista. =(

Bourque77
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05-02-2006

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 12:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bourque77 a private message Print Post    
Pinnie, I use vista and it works exactly the same on that computer as my other laptop. so while you may be struggling (and I feel your pain!) it is not the Vista per se that is the problem.

Allstarmaniac
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07-14-2006

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allstarmaniac a private message Print Post    
Let me understand this. Do I have to subscribe to the feeds to use this or is it available to anyone?

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
you have to already be a superpass member to gain access to the feeds.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
pinnie have you got it to the point that you've extracted the files?

I had to find the program after it finished downloading as it disappeared off my screen LOL

hopefully you are still there and some of us can help you get it up and running.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Saturday, July 07, 2007 - 11:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Me: I'm confused...but that's nothing new. LOL

Sun: not sure what you mean by nothing new Watching. BBviewer has been around for awhile and isnt new.

LOL I meant it's nothing new for ME to BE CONFUSED!!

Ryn
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 4:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ryn a private message Print Post    
I need to thank you guys for this thread - can't remember if I had used this before - but it is working great for me this year. I don't need/want to record the videos - just screen caps - and the ability to have 5 widows up at once and jump between them is great.

The only negative I can see is the in-ability to re-wind but that hasn't been much of a problem so far.

link for those that haven't tried it - http://bbviewer.com

Steviegirl
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07-07-2005

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Steviegirl a private message Print Post    
Um, can I ask a crazy question? How do I open 4 windows? Every time I click on the icon on my desktop it just opens the window I already have. Help?

Tera
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08-10-2000

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tera a private message Print Post    
are you sure they are not on top of each other? Grab the top and drag it to the side.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 9:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Also, if you are watching the Quad feeds, you can ctrl click on any feed and it will open that feed in a new viewer.

Steviegirl
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07-07-2005

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Steviegirl a private message Print Post    
Thanks, got it.

One more question, is there no way to rewind the feeds?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
No. Unfortunately that is something that this app is lacking.

Ryn
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07-13-2000

Monday, July 16, 2007 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ryn a private message Print Post    
Yeah - with the exception of not being able to rewind this program is wonderful I 've been running 5 windows almost all the time and never really felt the need to rewind. And being able to take screen caps with the space bar is excellent!