[RNLD] re; Problems with playing back videos

[Frank Seidel]

Hi Stephen,

a) It could also be your processor is not good enough. How old are the
laptops you are talking about? (If you type dxdiag into the command prompt
you should get the specifics on your processor RAM and other information)
b) You can also try and install latest codec.
c) Look for faster machines, if available and test there.

Hope you will figure it out.

Best,

Frank

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>wrote:

> Could it be an issue with the amount of RAM in the laptops? I have
> occasionally had problems like that playing back video on computers with
> small amounts of memory.
> Claire
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Florian Hanke <florian.hanke at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> As far as I can see the Zoom Q3HD recorders records MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 [
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC].
>> On their website, they recommend the Quicktime player [
>> http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/q3hd].
>> I suggest you download a version of the Quicktime player for Windows and
>> give it a go [http://www.filehorse.com/download-quicktime-player/].
>>
>> Cheers and good luck,
>>    Florian Hanke
>>    PhD candidate at University of Melbourne
>>    http://langtech.github.com/tentative/
>>
>>
>> On 9 November 2012 11:43, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear RNLD list,
>>>
>>> I'm presently in the field in North East India, in Arunachal Pradesh,
>>> where incredibly the internet works as well as it does at home.
>>>
>>> I've obtained some Zoom Q3HD recorders for members of the various Tangsa
>>> sub-tribes and people have been making some really nice recordings, video
>>> and audio. We've been able to download these to some laptops that I've been
>>> able to get, but there is a problem with replay.
>>>
>>> Often, the .mov files that the zoom creates play back but the sound and
>>> picture are not synchronised. Either the picture is frozen, or it moves at
>>> a much slower rate than the sound. This happened when we tried to play the
>>> recording on the latest vlc player that we had downloaded and installed -
>>> the sound was perfect though. When we tried to open it in Windows Media
>>> player, we had perfect picture but no sound at all.
>>>
>>> This is obviously very dis-spiriting for people who assume they've made
>>> errors in the recordings. I don't know how to fix these problems so I'm
>>> asking the list members if you have any advice.
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
>>>
>>>  Stephen Morey
>>> Australian Research Council Future Fellow
>>> Centre for Research on Language Diversity
>>> La Trobe University
>>>  Website: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm
>>>
>>> Language data website: http://sealang.net/assam
>>> Dictionary websites: http://sealang.net/ahom;
>>> http://sealang.net/singpho; http://sealang.net/phake
>>>
>>> Linguistic data archived at::
>>> DoBeS:  http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS and follow a link to projects, then
>>> Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India
>>> ELAR: http://elar.soas.ac.uk
>>> PARADISEC:  http://www.paradisec.org.au
>>>
>>> North East Indian Linguistics Society: http://sealang.net/neils
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Frank Seidel, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Center for African Studies at the University of Florida
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