THE SHIPBREAKERS - Technical notes

To play the movie with QuickTime your machine configuration has to meet certain requirements. It is a good idea to take a look on the technical parameters before downloading/installing it.

The movie and the text of it appear in two separate small windows on your screen. We did our best in order to keep both these windows visible when any of them is invoked. If it does not happen you have to bring them back into focus with usual Windows techniques.

You cannot load two parts of the movie at the same time from the underlying page because they use the same window. This is intentionally done to avoid memory problems. Still it may happen that you run out of memory and your browser program terminates. In such case you better close memory-hungry applications before you restart viewing the movie.

When loading a part of the movie QuickTime starts playing it right away. If loading cannot compete with the speed of playing it is good practice to wait until the loading is finished to (re)start playing.