iTunes hates me....

So, I got the link from iTunes last night, even though it was late, because I was at rehearsal when heidi8 called me about it, and I wound up having to call her at home (sorry!) because my Yahoo!Messenger kept crashing (grrr...). But she emailed me the iTunes link, and I downloaded it, and ran around and took my trash out while it was loading....

And it wouldn't play right. This is the same thing that happened when I broke down and bought "Roadkill" from iTunes because I couldn't get it any other way.

The picture freezes. The audio freezes, then picks up again after a delay of anywhere from 1-10 seconds. But here's the annoying thing: the audio *acts* as if it hasn't stopped playing. So it skips ahead. Then the pictures kind of skip around, too, so it's like a poorly timed, poorly scored slideshow instead of a video.

I even took time to update iTunes to the newest version, restarted the computer... same deal.

I managed to get *about* halfway through before midnight, at which point I had to give up.

If this happened with any downloaded .mp4 on my computer, I would blame my video and sound cards. But it only seems to happen when I download something *directly* from iTunes.

Anyone else ever have this problem?

This does NOT bode well for the rest of the season, people! I'm not going to be able to watch the episodes until "Stepping Out" is over - mid-November - and then if I get cast in something else over the winter/spring, which I really hope to be, I'll have the same problem again: rehearsals on Thursday nights.

I was just going to get the ep's from iTunes... but not if this is what's going to happen every time.

ARGH.

I'm going to see if I can load iTunes on the laptop and migrate stuff to it - maybe it *is* my computer, but at this point, all I really care about is being able to watch my show.


ETA: There is joy in Mudville... loading iTunes and d/ling the ep on the laptop worked just fine.

So I think it's probably the CPU speed on the other computer, really.

But at least I have a plan for the season....

Really, Really Long Meta: Dean Winchester Physical Contact Matrix

Dean Winchester - Physical Contact Matrix

I have been working on this for over two months. It's long, but contains scientific study of Dean and touching other people - how often, with whom, what kind of contact, and why.

( Purpose of Study )

( Why this study? )

( Assumptions )

( Methodology )

( Exceptions and Limitations )

( 2x20: What Is and What Should Never Be )

( Extrapolations )

( Inter-Rater Reliability )

( Season One )

( Season Two )

( Seasons One and Two Combined )

( Conclusions: What does all this mean? )