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Re: Erratic behavior of crosshair

Posted by hasloe at 2008-02-19 10:02  

This is difficult to explain let alone to solve. I have seen similar behavior once on an XP machine at our institute. So far we have not been able to discover what the cause is/was.
Does the same happen when you use e.g. one of the media files that can be downloaded from the ELAN download page (in other words could there be a relation with the encoding of the files)?

You may send the log files to me, maybe there is something useful in there (it wasn't the case here, but you never know). (han.sloetjes at mpi.nl)

Han

Re: Re: Erratic behavior of crosshair

Posted by Bruno at 2008-02-19 15:57  

Thank you Han. At least two machines here are doing the same. Also, one of my transcribers says she thinks the video file gets out of sync with the crosshair while the audio file seems to be in sync. I do suspect the encoding by VOB2MPG has something to do with it... I will email you the logs separately, and also the info I can get on the mpg files, which does not include bitrate unfortunately. The VOB2MPG software is really easy to use but gives you no control over the encoding.
Thanks
Bruno

Re: Re: Re: Erratic behavior of crosshair

Posted by Bruno at 2008-03-01 02:23  

To give this some closure: Han noticed that the .wav audio file was being loaded as master media and suggested setting the video as master. This worked :-)
Thanks

 

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