stable video support for Windows

[redglass]

no rant, no angryness, but disappointment: Again and again I try to fix issues with video on Windows 64 Bit, patiently following all ideas by Ableton support.
Now again video crashes permanently - unfortunately. Please give Windows users on 64 Bit a stable solution for mp4 video.

Please dont get me wrong, I dont mean it unpolitly or bad.
It is just tiring to have these crashes again and again.

I have no crashes with video using reaper, eather 32 bit or 64 bit.

A bit frustrated, Bastian

[redglass]

Hi again,

two steps helped playing the video again:

1. reducing the resolution of the video with handbrake (HD: 1280 x 720, 1500-2000 bitrate, audio as mp3 with a higher bitrate)

2. Creating a new project with only one audio track for the downconverted video file.
Opening the crashed project, deleting the video track and inserting the video track from the newer project.

Thanks for helping to Johannes and Will from Ableton support.

Cheers, Bastian

[jlgrimes]

Hi again,

two steps helped playing the video again:

1. reducing the resolution of the video with handbrake (HD: 1280 x 720, 1500-2000 bitrate, audio as mp3 with a higher bitrate)

Wouldn't using compressed audio for multi tracked projects add CPU overhead as MP3 would have to go through an extra decoding process.

That said I think most DAWS convert MP3s to waves or aiff on import.

[redglass]

Hi again,

two steps helped playing the video again:

1. reducing the resolution of the video with handbrake (HD: 1280 x 720, 1500-2000 bitrate, audio as mp3 with a higher bitrate)

Wouldn't using compressed audio for multi tracked projects add CPU overhead as MP3 would have to go through an extra decoding process.

That said I think most DAWS convert MP3s to waves or aiff on import.

Indeed, but I don't know how it works with audio that is embedded in video. At least the settings above do work fine.