I’m curious to know what the developers or ELAN users recommend as a good working format for video files for cross-platform use in ELAN. I note that no general recommendations are given by the ELAN team (right?).
My questions are:
What is the best container, codec, and perhaps bitrate for video for cross-platform use?
Is it better to demux video and audio streams into separate files? (I have found this to fix some issues)
The background is:
I’m working on a project with a small team who use a variety of platforms (Mac 10.11, 10.10, Windows 7, 8, 10). We are working on a corpus of materials with a couple of hundred hours of video. The videos typically range from 30 to 60 minutes in length. We have work divided into several stages such that one person hands off work to another at a certain point. I’m finding that what works for one, does not work for all. Playback may be reliable for one person but broken for another.