likely some year before 2007
and the dating above and this line is upon revising this web on Oct 5th 2020
Attention (if you only possess end-of-XX-century Inernet tools like I did until 2003 or 2004: 56K modem etc.)!
(These pieces of advice are useful for owners of ISDN as well.)
The so called avi files (audio-video interleaved; the Microsoft standard) are rather huge. The same holds for other video formats, e.g. mpeg. And, of course, it won't exactly be like watching a good TV or a proper DVD on a top-of-the-range computer...
But it's watchable and the sound is (I insist on audibility more than other quality; I teach languages), I believe, of almost acceptable quality, it is clearly discernible! The VCR (analog) videocassette I bought, and which I used to make and bring these digitalized videos to you, was itself miserably done...
It can take an hour or so, ...maybe less, on a 56K modem to download a 10 Megabyte avi file. But Father Sudac is just worth the trouble! (believe me, the uploading of these files is taking me as well, quite some time and even money)
A tip: Once you did it, it's stored in the Temporary Internet Files on your
computer's hard disk. You don't anymore need to go online to view the video,
you only need to open the Internet Explorer 5.x (or any other browser that you have)
click on the File menu, and then click on Work Offline; and load my pages only then!
Of course it won't work anymore if you delete your temporary files in the meantime, or if you have assigned too little space on the hard disk for them... Just add up all the Megs in the frame on the left!
Tweak the settings this way: Open the Tools menu, click on the Internet Options, and on the General tab click on Settings for Temporary Internet Files. If you have enough room on your hard disk, increase Amount of disk space to use for Temporary Internet Files folder. When I, for instance, had only 10-Gigabyte hard disk I usually assigned lavish 300-500 Megabytes for my temporary Internet files.
Still: don't count on the temp files in a long run. They're the first to get wasted on your next crash.
So: save these video files on your hard disk and other safe places; one more reason why you should save them is that I don't know how long I will be able to keep them on the site... They're too large.