Korsakow 5 does not currently do this. When the film is watched to the end, it will show the end screen asking if the user wants to restart from the beginning.

However we will consider this feature for a future release, and we do favour features from version 3.

Thanks for your feedback.

Ih the old version of Korsakow you could set it to restart if left idle for a while.

Can you do this with with version 5.0.4?

Cheers

George

Where do people host there Korsakow projects?

Do I need to buy dedicated streaming services such as http://www.streamingvideoprovi.....arges.html

My test project is on my http server and kind of works: http://www.mutinymedia.co.uk/S.....l#/?snu=94

Cheers

George

Has anybody triggered the buttons in a K-film by using touchscreen or other kinds of buttons, with and without wires?

Cheers

George

http://www.mutinymedia.co.uk

http://www.mutinyarts.co.uk

We've been working on a fix the problem you reported. After some internal testing it seems to work, but we would greatly appreciate it if you (or your student) could take a moment to try this release out and let us know if it fixes the problem.

We would also be very happy to recieve your report,  and I would like to thank you for taking the time to compile this information.

The candidate release is available at

Windows: http://korsakow.net/releases/k.....-win32.zip

Mac: http://korsakow.net/releases/k.....12-osx.zip

Here is an idea of the changes in this update to 5.0.4

• Can press Command+Delete to delete resources (this should be familiar to Mac users. Windows users can use CTRL+backspace, though it is not a standard shortcut on Windows)
• Some issues with subtitles have been addressed.
• Fixed a problem where exporting to an external drive wouldn't work
• Fixed a problem where exporting h264 encoded media on Windows wouldn't work
• Updated h264 export quality
  • H264 Low is now 400k/s (roughly the same as previously)
  • H264 Medium is now 700k/s (much higher than previously)
  • H264 High is now 1700k/s (much much higher than previously)
  •  
  • These settings are hopefully now similar to youtube's 360,480,720p settings.

Of course anyone reading this is welcome to try out the prerelease (and let us know your results), but I would advise not to replace your current version with this and to back up any projects you test using this version as it is still just a release candidate.

Dave

yes, my student could export and view successfully on Windows Vista when she used video clips prepared with MPEG-4 compression. I posted the test she sent:

http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....index.html

Also, I had my students watch all peers' films and submit bug reports along with their system/browser info. I'd be happy to compile those and send along, if you think it would be useful.

Thanks for your help on this. I believe there may be an issue with H264 video on windows at the moment. That is, with exporting video already in H264 in some cases fails. Can you try preparing your video using another codec (MPEG-4, for example) and letting me know?

Thanks

Dave

Korsakow Dev Team

"I've been dutifully using the exported movies you gave me on the CD. I've been trying to export the videos, but the ffmpeg program is still shutting everything down."

I have posted the clips she is using--that I processed (on MacG5/OS 10.5.8) and gave her on CD at: http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....ted_clips/

Here are links to screen shots of settings I used
http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....enshot.jpg
http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....enshot.jpg

And below my instructions to student on settings to use.

Hope this gives you an idea on how to proceed.
cheers and thanks, Jenny//

>>> Quicktime Pro:
>>> - under FILE menu, choose EXPORT (not "export for web")
>>> - In dialog box, set "Export" to "Movie to QuickTime"
>>> - Click the "Options" box, then click "Settings"
>>> - Make sure the setting are set to:
>>> Compression type = H.264  (I know some people said they used MPEG-4
>>> video and it worked, but the Korsakow manual says H.264 and this worked for
>>> the test I made)
>>>
>>> Framerate = Current
>>>
>>> Key Frames and Data Rate should be set to AUTOMATIC
>>>
>>> Quality: up to you, but larger files can be an issue over the web
>>>
>>> Encoding: Best-quality
>>> - Then click OK
>>> - This will take you back to first menu, where you can change the
>>> dimensions (size) of exported movie and apply filters (like
>>> sharpening).

Another user has recently reported a simiar problem. I believe this issue is caused by a specific type of video on windows and we are working to resolve it. If you could send me a (small, 5 seconds will do) sample of one of the videos that causes this it would greatly help my efforts in fixing it.

In the meantime, if you could tell me the settings you used in preparing the video I might be able to tell you how to tweak it slightly so as to avoid this issue.

Dave

Korsakow Dev Team

dreisch@korsakow.net

I have a student who is still unable to export her Korsakow project. She is using the updated of 5.0.4 for PC (from Apr 18, 2010) and I have made sure all her media files are compatible (by making a test project using her exact media files, which I've thown up at: http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....llj/test/).

She has tried to create her K-Film on three different PCs, all with latest Flash and QuickTime versions.

(1) HP pavillion laptop, running Windows Vista

(2) Toshiba laptop, running Windows XP

(3) Fujitsu laptop, running Windows Vista

Here are screen shots of the error messages she's getting:

http://coolstudios.com/110/man....._error.jpg

http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....error2.jpg

http://coolstudios.com/110/man.....error3.jpg

Any advice would be much appreciated!

and cross-platform locally. Thank you so much!

"I've fixed the problem and the download page has been updated. The update includes fixes for other issues that have come up since the release. Please let me know if this does address your problem"

Does this mean you fixed and updated KorsakowWin.zip so that if my students now download and install your update from http://korsakow.net/releases/K.....kowWin.zip they will be able to open their Korsakow projects (.krw) file with the update, export it, and should then have projects that are viewable cross platform?

I don't have a windows box handy to test this, will ask my students to try, but thought I'd post in case you had the time to confirm this sooner.

Cheers (and thanks),

Jenny//

Hi jenny,

Based on your explanation I took a look at the films and identified the problem as being related to the windows build. If you like you should be able to verify that windows exports

• play locally on windows
• do not play locally on a mac
• may not play online (depending on the server)

I've fixed the problem and the download page has been updated. The update includes fixes for other issues that have come up since the release. Please let me know if this does address your problem.

Regards,

Dave

By the way, your detailed report on the issue, including the sample links was extremely helpful in resolving the issue and very much appreciated by me since it saved me a lot of guessing and detective work.

K-film at: http://coolstudios.com/110/kana/
“doesn't work off servers but works locally when I view it before I upload it: I'm working off of Windows 7, Korsakow  v. 5.0.4”

K-film at: http://coolstudios.com/110/schulapa/
Project works for my student when viewed locally (but not for me on Mac 10.5.8/Firefox 3.6.3) andd not from link above. Don’t yet have system details from student, but a .zip of the project is posted at: http://www.mediafire.com/?frwmyugj1xx

Same behavior of working locally, but not from server also reported for projects below I tried some on two servers to test (we seem to have a playback problem with K-films on yin.arts.uci.edu at the local browser caching level, but that’s a separate issue… i think).

http://coolstudios.com/110/ash.....index.html
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....0/ashirais
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....0-S10/ngta
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....index.html
http://coolstudios.com/110/eyatsuzu/

Troubleshooting suggestions would be much appreciated. We’ll collect system details of playing + non- playing K-films, working to get all running online.

Happily, 9 of 14 projects seem to be working!

http://valchin.com/kfilm/
http://coolstudios.com/110/truexm/
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....index.html
http://www.coolstudios.com/110/aakolawa/
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....index.html
http://coolstudios.com/110/bang/
http://www.coolstudios.com/110/jungweic/
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....index.html
http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~stude.....index.html