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AEO-Light 2 is a new generation of optical sound extraction software developed by the University of South Carolina in close cooperation with Tommy Aschenbach. The project is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Large yet empty files #36

Open Jay-Schwartz opened 3 years ago

Jay-Schwartz commented 3 years ago

Here's a problem I often have with AEO-Light. It happens completely randomly as far as I can tell, and I've used the program a lot. The issue presents itself about every five times I run AEO-Light. It's currently happening with version 2.3.3, and it also happened with the last version I used, v 2.2.

I'll load a file into AEO-Light as TIFF files, as I always do. I make adjustments, listening to the samples with each change, until I think I made it the best I can. I start the extraction, which takes the usual amount of time for the length of the video. It produces a WAV file of expected file size.

And then I go to listen to the file, and it lasts a tiny fraction of a second and is silent! The properties tab of the file shows it as having zero seconds duration, even though it can be a great big WAV file.

This happens with all of the same settings that I use to produce good files. It keeps happening.

Anyone else?

Is there a user forum for this software anywhere besides this rarely updated GitHub issues page? I think such a forum would be useful beyond bug reports, to share tips on getting better sounding files, etc.

Jay Schwartz

retokromer commented 3 years ago

We don’t experience this specific issue.

To my knowledge there is no user group.

I suggested the idea to publish better documentation, but there was no interest. To my knowledge there is “only” the manual of version 2.2 beta, dated 2016–10–07.