[RNLD] re; Problems with playing back videos

[Stephen Morey]

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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