AVI/WMV Codec Recommendations
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I suggest using the free Microsoft media encoder. It will bulk convert your files rather quickly, and has many options available. I generally can find a preset that suits my needs.
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Thanks DusX,
Thanks for your note.
I am having a really challenging time finding a compression method that will give me solidly smooth playback. For 95% of what I am doing, the occasional skipped frame is not an issue. I do, however, have one long animated pan that look awful with skipped frames. I've tried running isadora at 29.97, 30, 60fps, quicktime, and wmv:
1280X960 75% PJPEG 30fps, and 29.97 fps
960X720 same
720X540 sameI have also tried WMV using Windows media 9 advanced, 9, 8, and 7.
Nothing I have tried is giving me smooth playback. I am running this all off my G750JH from an SSD and GTX780M with 4GB vram.
These clips playback without a hitch in VNC.
At this point, I am settling for quicktime as it is seems to suffer the least from these issues.
I would love to hear any input you might have. We are shooting dress on Wednesday and will try a few more things before then.
Best,
= Justin
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Not sure I have anything to offer, sorry.
It seems that your machine should be able to handle playback (first reading I thought video card?)
I don't have any slow clear pan type videos to do a test with, so I can't even confirm the behavior locally (Unless you want to drop box it to me?) -
Hi dusx. Here is a link! https://db.tt/xWTcvkuQ Would love to here your thoughts. Thanks. J
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ah looks like I was too slow.
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I have it working in a way that is passable right now using quicktime - which I find much more reliable when playing multiple clips. We're doing a 5 day run, so any input would still be appreciated!
I suspect that there might be a mac in my future :-(
Best,
- J
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Well we just finished up the run. Super fun. The piece was very well received.
In the work, I found that the Native Windows player introduced a few issues:
- I found that it dropped a lot of frames
- I found that it would randomly not play clips. If I had 2 or three clips in a scene, it would play the first two but not the third. If I restarted Isadora, it would play them fine until this issue popped up again.
With these two issues present, I went back to using quicktime as it was much more reliable and it dropped less frames.
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I can't say I have noticed frame-drops, but that may be due in part to the style of many of my videos.
but videos not playing, I think I have come across this bug before, and found a work around.. This should probably be looked into in more detail.
I will run some tests.. if I remember correctly there is a case were the video player does init and requires a quick switch of a playback parameter. -
Dear DusX,
Yes, please investigate and let me know what you find out.
Best Wishes,
Mark -
Will do.
