5/14/2007 12:08:01 AM

I recently purchased 3 digital juice jumpback voulmes, I can not load any of the videos into my video folder to get them to play.
I had previously purchased digital juice 2.0 which included about 40 jumpbacks and all worked perfectly and copied into the video folder just fine and play on demand. I don't know what I need to do to get these new jumpbacks to play.

Hope this makes sense to someone.

Thanks,
Dennis Duval

5/14/2007 12:36:45 AM

DJ Jumpbacks are in *.mov format, which are currently unable to be played in SSP...
Download Juicer3 and use that to convert them into a more usable format, such as a AVI file.

Or you can use a Program like Bink or Smacker and convert these files at once as a great big batch

5/16/2007 11:03:42 AM

Lucas,

What is that control panel in front of you on your avatar. Please send some info, it looks really cool.

Thanks,
Dennis Duval
dennisaduval@yahoo.com

5/16/2007 6:11:37 PM

That is a Jands Hog 1000
The picture was taken during a Youth Conference where there were Intelligent Lighting Fixtures (I love playing with them)
And I was having a bit of a fiddle/play with the lights

5/20/2007 2:43:29 PM

I have a truckload of Jumpbacks (like 10 or so volumes) in my collection. I have them all in mpeg format.

You will still need to use some sort of compression method when you output it into avi files. Otherwise the avi's may end up either bloatedly huge and large uncompressed video (DV output), or very poor quality.

All of mine are compressed as mpeg-1 videos and they run pretty smoothly, however, the steps to do so involved me outputting the file in juicer as a DV AVI file, then import into Adobe Premiere, in which I either left the video or changed it's color hue and exported to adobe media encoder as mpeg-1. That was my way of doing it... I'm going to look into a more easier, less steps, to do this.

I have in the past compressed videos in avi's using Xvid, in which you will need to download and install xvid, and xvid will be a compression option when you create a juicer avi file.

This might not make some sense now, but if you want further information I will gladly explain the video compressions, advantages, disadvantages, what would be best for you...etc.

**Curious as to why SSP doesn't support quicktime files. While I may not be a mac user, quicktime is still widely used and can actually make some quality video.**

5/21/2007 5:39:33 AM

This question was answered by R-Technics some time ago so I'm going by memory (if you have the patience to search this forum you may find it, or it may have been posted before the old forum was trashed and thus is lost) the matter was related to licensing and royalty issues. I don't believe WMP does either, does it? And if not, it might be for the same reason.

5/21/2007 6:38:19 AM

As I recall, they use WMP their video engine and WMP doesn't support MOV, so neither does SSP.

That's how I remember it. There were/are no legal plug ins to allow MOVs to be played in WMP.

5/21/2007 11:10:29 AM

SSP does not use WMP for video playback.

5/21/2007 7:18:07 PM

You can play .mov files by downloading Quicktime Alternative which I'm pretty sure is legal...

5/21/2007 7:22:39 PM

...ahem.... .mov files in wmp that is..... sorry...

5/22/2007 6:31:32 AM

But they both use the same components of DirectX, correct? Or is it not DirectX components (which is mainly for video/sound hdw access, correct?) that is used to reference video codecs?

5/22/2007 11:08:49 AM

WMP's code for decoding/playback is closed source. One might assume that WMP would use Microsoft technology such as DirectShow and DirectX; but they might only be used sparingly (if at all). SSP does not plug in to WMP architecture in any way. Even if SSP uses the same Microsoft technologies as WMP, there are multiple approaches within that realm to accomplish the same task.

Often, installing a codec grants decoder abilities to all players installed on a Windows system (including SSP), hence the similarity in playback compatibility from one player to another (and the myth that if it works in WMP it should work in SSP). It is important to note however, that some codecs only work for some players.

If something plays in WMP, it indicates that the video file is functional. It does not indicate that the video file can play in SSP. SSP does not use WMP for video playback.

5/22/2007 10:34:04 PM

The WMP test is more of a negative test: if a video doesn't play in WMP, then we would expect that it would also not play in SSP. However, as Steven stated, the opposite is not necessarily true.