Thanks, Robert. I must have had a transmission error while downloading the full-motion video. Yes, the full-motion video (".mov") plays fine with VLC. The version that _doesn't_ play video with VLC is the ".m4v" (if you click on "Download the Podcast") version, which is only 39 MBytes, and MediaInfo reports that this file has AVC-encoded video at a frame rate of .1 fps = 6 frames per minute. Many of the UCSB KITP podcast videos have this 6fpm format, which is fine for slides and (most) blackboard work. The VLC people don't seem to be interested in fixing this problem, which is a pity, because there are thousands/hundreds of thousands of "enhanced" podcasts available on the internet with very low or variable frame rate video. Windows Quicktime is the only player I've found capable of playing these types of videos correctly. At 12:31 PM 1/13/2013, Robert Munafo wrote:
I downloaded the full-motion video from your link, and I was able to pay it all the way through in VLC, and without any problems near the end:
On 1/13/13, hbaker1 <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
[...] Here's the download link for the full-motion video: http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/download/bblunch/arkanihamed2/snd/Arkanihamed2_Bl...
I don't know if this file is corrupted or whether I had an error while downloading, but my downloaded video failed after about 60 minutes into this 80-minute video.
My version of VLC is version 1.1.10. (Intel 64-bit) for Mac, compiled by fpk with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 based on Apple build 5658, LLVM build 2335.6, and I'm running MacOS X 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard".
I was also able to use FFMPEG to recompress (transcode) the video into an M4V/MP4, which also plays in VLC with no troubles. This recompressed version is 752 MB (a little smaller than the original) and if you want I can try to upload it to Rapidshare or something.
Note that the VideoLAN "VLC" player will not play this video correctly; you have to use Apple Quicktime player (either Mac or Windows). Even iTunes won't play it correctly.
VLC will play the sound, but I found the pictures necessary to understand what was going on.
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