I have an annotation file with a .mpg file linked. Suddenly, ELAN will no longer play the video. I can still play the sound, but the player is either blue, black - or sometimes blue with a box of white within it (this occur especially if I change the window size, or where a pop-up window has previously been).
I am now encountering the same problem for a new file I am creating, also with link to a (different) .mpg file.
It confuses me that this problem is occurring, since I do not believe I have made any changes to prompt it between now and when it used to work.
This is indeed strange if nothing has changed to the system.
Maybe there are relevant error messages in the log (View->View Log…) after noticing the strange video effects?
Is this on a PC which is regularly shutdown and (re)booted? If not, it might be worth to reboot the system and see if that helps?
Yes, computer has been regularly booted, and did another reboot just to check, it did not have any effect on the issue.
I have checked the log, and do not find anything that seems to relate to the video, but I am not experienced in reading these, so I have copy pasted the info and warning messages I get:
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.DesktopAppHandler setHandlers
INFO: The APP_ABOUT action is not supported on the current platform!
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.DesktopAppHandler setHandlers
INFO: The APP_QUIT_HANDLER action is not supported on the current platform!
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.DesktopAppHandler setHandlers
INFO: The APP_OPEN_FILE action is not supported on the current platform!
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.DesktopAppHandler setHandlers
INFO: The APP_PREFERENCES action is not supported on the current platform!
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.prefs.PreferencesReader parse
INFO: Preferences file does not exist: C:\Users\Research Assistant.elan_data\shortcuts.pfsx
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:37 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.commands.ShortcutsUtil readCurrentShortcuts
INFO: Could not load the keyboard shortcut preferences file. The file does not exist or is not valid.
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:39 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0xffffffff80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(…) returned error code 5.
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:39 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences WindowsRegOpenKey1
WARNING: Trying to recreate Windows registry node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0xffffffff80000002.
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:39 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences openKey
WARNING: Could not open windows registry node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0xffffffff80000002. Windows RegOpenKey(…) returned error code 2.
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:43 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.prefs.PreferencesReader parse
(…)
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:43 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.commands.ClipMediaCA
INFO: No clipping script found!
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:43 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.tiersets.TierSetUtil readTierSetsFromFile
INFO: Could not load the tier set file. The file does not exist or is not valid.
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:44 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.util.AvailabilityDetector detectFromJar
WARNING: No plug-in cmdi metadata file found in analyzer-gloss-0.5.jar
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:44 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.util.AvailabilityDetector detectFromJar
WARNING: No plug-in cmdi metadata file found in annotyzer-lexicon-0.5-compound.jar
Oct 19, 2020 1:54:44 PM mpi.eudico.client.annotator.util.AvailabilityDetector detectFromJar
WARNING: No plug-in cmdi metadata file found in annotyzer-whitespace-split-0.7.jar
No, nothing special in the log messages.
The removed filter graph of the .mpg might still be of interest. It can also be obtained via the context menu of the video, the option “Show Filter Graph”.
Whatever the contents, it would still be unclear what could have changed and why, but I have no other ideas.
Hi again,
As a work around I have converted my .mpg file to .mp4 and made it work that way, so I do not need any further help, but thank you for your attempts to try and solve this mystery.
Just for context, this was the text found under show filter-graph before I switched to mp4:
Filter 1: Video Renderer
Pin 1: VMR Input0
Filter 2: Direct Sound Renderer
Pin 1: Audio Input pin (rendered)
Filter 3: MPEG1 Video Decoder
Pin 1: Input
Pin 2: Output
Filter 4: MPEG1 Audio Decoder
Pin 1: XForm In
Pin 2: XForm Out
Filter 5: MPEG1 Splitter
Pin 1: Input
Pin 2: Video
Pin 3: Audio
Filter 6: Source
Pin 1: Output
