Admin has downgraded video playing capability at school...

Hi,
I have a little problem, I used to be able to play flv's and.avi's at school, on school computers, usually it was topic related eg: recycling, environment or literature related videos.
Recently our tech guy has "re-installed" some software, now there is no way we can go full screen on a vid, playback is jerky, at the most, half-screen size is the most anything will play back at. And there's pixilation, color veins running thru some videos...
Any idea what might have been done? There's been a definite downgrade of playing capability, ... my standpoint is that education is as visual as it is literate, used to love using the odd video from time to time to illustrate a point, now it looks like computers are for word and ppt's only:crap

Anybody have a clue about what I can do? Or what could possibly have been done to downgrade these computers? Of course, I can't get a straight answer out of the tech guy.......

 

We can't help you bypass your schools filters sorry you'll have to speak to your system administrator and ask for full screen videos to be restored or ask him to fix it.

If he's broke them has no business being a school IT tech,tell your headmaster he's broke the computers:-D

 

thanks, .. this has been going on for some time, unofficial school policy (it's a private school) has been that "students don't come to school to watch movies), .. and the owner has always had that underwritten policy!

I'm pretty sure it's on purpose, that the 3 computers we use suddenly don't play, it's too much of a coincidence.

Don't worry, easily solved, ... I just take in mine and direct plug the whiteboard into my computer, plus the sound. But Pretty amazingly poor attitudes from a school for 2012, don't you think?!?

 

Personally I think stopping all movies playing is a but extreme,most schools have filters that block entertainment sites but if these filters have been routinely bypassed which they can be then it may be the admins decision to use them just as data machines.

I don't really know what the best solution is for learning but the best solution for not getting suspended is to follow the rules

 

Personaly, i think its amusing you assume you have any right to do anything but what the school it guy has approved the machines for. Yeah it used to work, but now it doesn't, suck it up, find something else to do. In my high school days i spent lots of time fighting with it over many things, and the one thing i really learned? You never win. Do the learning you can, watch your videos at home. Despite you know how to responsibly watch movies and so on, many others may damage/break things try to do what your doing. If you need the ability have your teachers request it, as they are the only people that will get through, not you. Your parents if willing to learn the issue and petition, might be helpful, but again, the best bet is to drop the issue. Yes it sucks, but yeah. Good luck though!