[RNLD] re; Problems with playing back videos

[Claire Bowern]

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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