Problem: Neverending Initializing

Posted by OldAl at 2007-06-29 23:45

Hi.
I´ve got the Problem, that, while starting a session (even a new one), the initializing never ends (had my computer at leat running for 15 hours...)
Tried to run Elan on a MacPro without problems, but at home I´m woking on Windowa XP SP2.
Could anbod help me...???
Greets: Al

Re: Problem: Neverending Initializing

Posted by hasloe at 2007-07-09 13:31

The problem is very likely the format of the media file. Could it be it is an mpeg-2 file or a file type that requires QuickTime? ELAN tries to handle these situations gracefully, but sometimes errors within the media framework (in this case probably Windows Media Player) are not reported to ELAN. E.g. it is an mp4 file and the media player 'pretends' to be able to handle it, but in fact isn't.
There may be a clue in the log file, <user_home>\.elan_data\elan0.log, as it is after trying to load such file.
You may send the file to me for inspection.

Han

HELP - Problem: Neverending Initializing

Posted by leesonl at 2007-10-18 18:03

I am hitting the never ending eaf initialisation problem on my MacBook (running OSX) and don't know how to solve it.

The EAF file seems ok when I view it as text and the MP4 file plays ok in quicktime. I am using Elan 3.2. What should I do?

Can you give me specific suggestions as to how to fix this and advise as to what is actually wrong.

Re: HELP - Problem: Neverending Initializing

Posted by jtschrock at 2011-09-12 21:24

I am also having problems with the never-ending initialization. I recently upgraded to Elan 4. I am pretty sure that Elan is hanging because I have media associated with my .eaf that Elan doesn't like. This is troubling because I created these eaf's with an older version of Elan 3.XX (can't remember which one I was using then). There were no troubles at all with these linked files in the past. Why would a newer version of Elan/JRE not support something it supported in the past?

I had a .wav set as the master audio file and an .mp4 (H.264 video, no audio) as video. So now my file just hang when I try to open it.

I have opened MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 successfully in ELAN 4.1.0. I am assuming that I'm going to have to re-encode my video to fix this. I know how to change linked files once an eaf file is opened in Elan, but how do you do this in the initializing limbo phase? Are there lines in the .eaf (xml) file that I can change in a text editor which will point to the new files? I have several of these files and re-annotating would be just about unthinkable.

thanks

Jedd Schrock

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