Patrick, I went out to SPOC tonight for an Ealing session that was aborted due to high-wind. But I did thumb-tack an envelope to the bulletin board with your name on it. It contains two data DVDs. The first is a 1.5 gig DVD containing the TRACE "Filaments" movie DVD. http://trace.lmsal.com/Public/Gallery/Movies/ The second DVD data disk contains a partial copy of the Active Regions DVD. There are three TRACE DVDs: Filaments (1.5 gigs), Active Regions (3.1 gigs) and Flares (3.6 gigs). All the DVDs are images only - no audio. After two attempts, I was unable to get a Mac to burn a copy of the Active Regions and Flares disks. I was able to download the three disk image files (2 1/2 hours of download time on a T1 connection at the UofU) onto a Mac, to mount the image files and then view them with the intended media viewer - the open source VideoLan viewer ( http://www.videolan.org ). However, the Mac did not seem to be up to actually burning a full 3.6 gig DVD without aborting on a CRC error. I do not know whether this was inherent to a Mac or there is a CRC error in the TRACE source files. In any event, I have left you what I could download and burn. Unfortunately this does not include the coolest disk - the Flares DVD. For your educational school stuff, the Filaments DVD contains an overview of all the DVDs, a solar science movie and a movie on the physical TRACE satellite. Individual Quicktime movies of flares can also be downloaded, e.g. this monster X14.4 flare - http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/TRACEpodarchive8.html#movie33 (11Mb) To run the Filaments DVD, copy the root directory "Filaments" to your hard drive. (It runs too slow off the disk.) Install the VideoLan media player - which I can represent to you as the best open source media and streaming player available. For the VideoLan open file menu, choose the option to play a directory. Point to the "Filaments" directory. VideoLan will load a DVD-type movie menu. The Filaments DVD also does not contain a descriptions of the individual movies - it only lists the date of the event. You can sometimes find the description for the same date on the TRACE POD page: http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/ See the POD movies section For lurkers, there are also directories to download individal "big" and moderate sized Quick-time movies. http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/ See the POD movies section http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/bigmovies/ - Enjoy Kurt P.S. - It may be possible to burn good copies of the other DVDs. You'd probably need someone with some pull at a college computer media center - like Dr. Palen - who can ask someone with the time to download the disk *.img files, convert them disks and to burn them on a high-end machine. The directories and files involved are: http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/bigmovies/DVDs/ http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/bigmovies/DVDs/ActiveRegionDVD.img http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/bigmovies/DVDs/FlaresDVD.img _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net