Yaqi video clip

[Joe98]

I downloaded a clip from Yaqi's site called "yaqiavi". It runs 2 minutes and 23 seconds, it took about an hour to download. Its a marvelous clip, but part of it seems to be running faster than normal speed. Was this some technical accident or was it deliberate? I hope that no part of the tape that the clip is from is like that.

 

[WallStreet]

Joe98-- This "speeding up" probably was a glitch occuring during the "video capture" part of the process. I don't know much about video capturing, except that it's not done at real speed. Supposedly it takes 4 hours to video capture one hour's worth of VHS. I could be off on these numbers, and I re-iterate that I'm not an expert.
Anyone with more knowledge on this matter can step forward to correct me.

 

[UnclStevel]

Hey Joe98!

I host that file for Yaqi, and encoded that for him from a raw avi file he gave me. I have the same clip at ET and haven't had anyone else with that problem. I've heard of a video playing slower if you have an older computer, but faster? Hhhhmmm. That's got me stumped!

Steve 🙂

 

[dvnc]

Wow, it must be "digital video day" 'cause this is the second one I've seen on such a topic.

Wall$treet's actually mistaken on this topic (a rarity, you'll note). If the video can be stepped through, frame by frame, and not be missing pieces not seen when it's "going too fast", then the playback application is spewin' it out too fast.

Why?

This can occur when there's background tasks or when the data is too big at that portion of the video. An analogy would be too much water for too small a hose. Picture the cartoon of a swollen water hose, and how it bursts forth really quickly after some delay. Digitally, that's what *can* occur wit' digital video.

The solution? More memory to the player can help. Failin' there, you need a faster processor and/or some sort of faster I/O (a faster drive card and a faster drive, for a Windows example).

Now, when it plays better the second time, the problem's bein' assuaged by "queuing", where the application is queuing the video into memory. It works wit' shorter clips, and is helped when the application hogs all the memory it can get. Means that you wanna fully QUIT that app, too, so you don't start getting memory errors.

Why don't I blame the clip? 'Cause "it plays fine on my config." It's that most hated of answers, when given without solutions.

g'luck!