Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher. If you do not have it, you can download it from the Adobe website here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.

Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher including the latest updates, or Mac OS X or higher
A broadband connection, preferably with 700+ Kbps for continuous playback. Chances are that a dialup connection will be choppy and rebuffer quite frequently, or may not work at all.

Windows hardware requirements:

Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)
128MB of RAM

Macintosh hardware requirements:

PowerPC® G3 500MHz or faster processor
Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
128MB of RAM

Websites that contain Flash content require the Flash Player. A message asking you to download Flash Player comes from either the website you are viewing or from your browser.

Most browsers come installed with Flash Player, so you may already have a previous version of Flash Player installed. You may still need to update to the latest version if the website contains features that require a newer version. For best results, download and install the latest version from Flash Player Download Center.

If there is a Flash Movie object on the page, Microsoft Internet Explorer users will see a window requesting a download of the Adobe Flash Player. This message is a default feature of the Windows version of Microsoft Internet Explorer called “Install on Demand”. If you wish not to see the window in the future, you have two options:

-When prompted, choose Yes and install the Flash Player.

-Disable the Microsoft Install On Demand feature in your browser.

The player utilizes three different bite rate video encodings in order to cater to a greater number of users. In turn, each user is served with the best quality video allowed by the speed of their connection

All of the Video On Demand players feature bandwidth detection when the player first loads and serves the user the correct bandwidth video depending upon this test.

1. If you launch the player on Windows 98 while other audio applications—including but not limited to mp3 players—are running, you may have trouble hearing the video’s sound. If this is the case, close your browser and all audio applications. Restart your browser and return to the video.

2. If you are behind a firewall, check to see if you can get to popular sites on the internet like Google. If you cannot, check your connections. If this does not solve the problem there may be a problem with your connection to the internet, we recommend that you contact your service provider. If there is no problem getting to the sites like Google, then you may have certain ports locked down on your firewall.

Firewall/Ports
If you are experiencing problems accessing streaming video content, it may be that you are behind a firewall that prevents access on certain ports. Firewalls are security programs that block unauthorized traffic to and from your PC. If you are on a corporate network, please check with your network administrator. If you have a personal firewall installed on either your home system or on a home network router (firewalls are sometimes pre-installed with ADSL or cable modems), then refer to your product’s documentation on how to allow access. Due to the large numbers of possible products and setups, we are unable to troubleshoot your particular firewall connection problems for you.

Streaming requires open port 1935
Flash Player requires incoming and outbound access on port 1935 and 443 to stream correctly. You should configure your firewall to either have these ports open (for all applications to use) or to allow Flash Media Player to be a trusted application. Please consult your firewall documentation on how to do this as we cannot provide support to do this.

The quality of the video clip you are watching mainly depends on two factors: (a) the speed of your Internet connection and (b) the bit rate (speed) of the video clip. The faster the bit rate of the video clip, the better the quality. However, the speed of your Internet connection will limit which video clip bit rate that you can watch. For example, if you only have a 56kbs dial up connection to the Internet, the highest video clip bit rate that you will be able to watch will be 56kbs or less (most likely less as the majority of dial-up connections only get speeds of 28kbs or less due to phone line issues). If you try to watch a video clip with a bit rate of 300kbs over a dial up connection, the video will not play. That is why we offer multiple bit rates for each video clip in Video On Demand players. Each bit rate is optimized for the different types of Internet connections available (Dial-up/DSL/Cable Modem/T1). As you can see, it is very important that you select the proper video clip bit rate for your Internet connection. For the best viewing experience, we recommend a high speed Internet connection such as DSL or Cable Modem.

It is important to note that even if you have a high-speed (DSL/ Cable Modem/ T1), Internet traffic congestion affects your connection speed and/or video performance. You will get slower or faster speeds at different times depending on peak or off-peak use hours. You may also get slower speeds during the morning and afternoon, but faster speeds late at night when fewer people are online. Also, streaming quality decreases when multiple people share the same Internet connection (e.g. at work or on a home network).

A dial-up connection is not recommended because our live video stream is being broadcast slightly above 500 kbps. The Video On Demand player has lower, medium and high video bit rates and a dial-up Internet connection is slower than broadband. We recommend you have a minimum Internet connection of at least 700 kbps to enjoy our service.

You can contact our technical support staff at techsupport@email.noi.org . Our technical support staff will respond as soon as possible to emails and you may call 866-925-2707 during live events. If you have a spam filter running (often enabled by default on AOL, Hotmail, EarthLink and Yahoo), please check your ‘spam’, ‘bulk’, or ‘junk’ mail folder in the event that your spam filter intercepts our reply to your email.

Please send an email to support at techsupport@email.noi.org

Your internet connection is probably not fast enough to keep up with the bit rate of video you are watching. Currently, there is only one bit rate available for live Flash video.

This usually means that you do not have the needed version of the Flash player installed on your computer. Please download the latest version, install it, restart your web browser and try it again.

This occurs when the speed of your Internet connection is lower than the bit rate of the video clip you are watching and can be caused by either (a) your selecting of a bit rate for the video clip that is to high for your Internet connection or (b) Internet traffic congestion reduces the speed of your connection below what it should be (for example, you have a high speed DSL or cable modem connection to the Internet, but due to Internet congestion or shared usage, the effective speed of your Internet connection is actually closer to a 56kbs dial up connection).