oh my GOD i am so DEPRESSED.

(ok exams are over and yayy and now i can -guiltlessly- waste my time as opposed to guiltily wasting my time and sky captain was greating and hanging around orchard was great and the broccoli soup and prata wrap at coffee club express were delish, i love that stuff) but i am DEPRESSED.

you know why? first, right after history - which was such a drag - i came home all excited to watch gg, and guess what? the same problem as jack&bobby! the video doesn't work. all my other videos work, it works on vivien's computer, it just doesn't work on mine. and then when vivien came to orchard she brought me a burnt copy of her thing, and i tried it just now and it also DOES NOT WORK. this is GG. my LIFE. my LIFELOVEOXYGEN. and, really, if it's going to affect all the stuff i dl from bittorrent, it will kill me. i need to figure out what happened!!! :( it obviously isn't a problem with the download since vivien's cd played in the exact same way, so what changed in my windows media player between last week and this week? and it's not like it's affecting all the videos on my computer; it's just these last two. i'm currently dling Lost and the vcdffn version of gg, see if this works. i'm really pissed off.

anyway - computer experts out there, can you offer any suggestions? maybe tomorrow i'll ask claud if she can come over and have a look. for now, i will hope that my brother lets me borrow his computer for a while.

ETA: it doesn't work on my brother's computer either! in fact, vivien had burnt 503 on the cd as well and that worked on my computer but when i tried that on his computer it didn't work either. this is really really strange. and when i let him use my computer in exchange for using his, i closed my Lost and GG downloads and just now belatedly realised that the website's not working so i can't resume. i guess i'll have to try supernova. but i will assume that the website's down for servicing or something, and that they're trying to solve the problem with the downloads. maybe there's a codec problem because my brother's computer said error finding codec and then it moved on to play only sound. only my computer plays a green screen whereas his goes straight to visualisation ie as though it's really a sound clip. oh my god i feel miserable. i hope this gets better. and if i find some codec thing, might that help? this is beyond horrible.

EDIT AGAIN on the gg situation: now the video plays, but it's lagging behind the sound. help.