I saw on the forums where someone said something last year about video degrading and that they don't degrade from moving. But if you have had to clone a drive with the video moved them to an external drive can they degrade. My problem here is that I have home videos taken with a sony sr42 in low light night shot and I can just about fast forward to certain spots and I see distorted pixels that turn green yellow red blue it doesn't always have the same look sometimes but it is pretty much in the same spots all the time. Also staggering of the video and sometimes jumping pausing for a split sec and skipping. How is that? I use on board graphics from the computer on a vista and I have a old optiquest crt I know its old but it plays everything very nicely and still works great. I have also moved the video from the external to another computer running windows 7 and an HD montior with way better graphics card and still the same problem I thought it might be the external because it is getting worse but its only 2 months old. The only problem I am having with the video playback is my personal videos no other movies I have downloaded or anything. It is not just confined to the night shot either some are plain and full color. I don't know exactly what codecs I have installed but I don't think they have changed since the video played right. I have a new intel ssd running it, and it was before that my 5400 crashed but I was able to save everything from it, started new on the ssd transferred all videos to it then the new external, but even if I transfer to the ssd and play they still do the same. I use KM player most of the time, but have the same problem with WMP but the degradation is not as bad (ratio) say 10 pixels discolored in KM and maybe only 7 in WMP. But the staggering and pausing is happening more in WMP. Also it seems to be getting worse the more I watch them. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Video is no different than any other file on a hard drive. If the files degraded with time or when copied computers would be completely useless.
That's not to say the drives can't fail. That's why you make backup copies. If you have a drive that's failing replace it.Last edited by jagabo; 29th Dec 2011 at 10:43.
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Some years ago I had a PC with a defective disk drive and it did make some ripped videos have bad spots in them. The only solution to the problem was to re-rip the bad videos onto a new disk drive. But that was all due to a bad disk drive and was not a fault of the videos per se. They just happened to be the most easily recognized manifestation of the bad disk drive.
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Taking in the BIG picture, EVERYTHING DEGRADES, both Analog and Digital. That's just life.
However, the WAY analog degrades is very different from the way digital does. That's one of the benefits of digital: it has error correction built into it's storage and transmission, and it's a clear ALL-or-NOTHING dichotomy. But this can work for you or against you.
So, your videos won't fail or degrade simply because of moving, unless they're already CLOSE to failing because of degradation of the storage medium to the point of non-recovery using the error correction. As long you you regularly check your media for "errors", you can totally avoid this. In fact, the process of moving your data to a different medium is one good way to verify that your error correction is working. It "refreshes the bits", in a manner of speaking. This process is also inherent in the idea of Backing Up (and restoring) your data! You remember backing up? That's something that everyone is recommended to do (but few actually do).
BTW, if you have chosen NOT to back up and NOT to check on the error-correcting condition of your media, when the time does come to do the migration, you could find yourself in deep shit because of that whole "all or nothing" working against you at some point. Analog would have degraded slowly-but-surely, digital would not act like it's degrading until it just WON'T WORK. That's why it's good to do routine checks to make sure everything is up to snuff.
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"Thanks" to those that made the obvious statement with no insight I gathered as i said from reading the other post on other pages and to those that gave insight and advice Thanks very much! It got me to thinking even though it was not talked about nor did i mention but I think I found my problem I have my EXT drive hooked to my new router by netgear which has a usb hookup for EXT drive to be accessed from the network and both my computers are on a wireless setup so when I am trying to play the movies from the drive with out downloading them to the computer is when I have the most problems. I moved the EXT drive from my router and hardwired it to my 7 comp. and so far the videos are playing fine even with playing them from the drive and not downloading so the drive is not failing since all my drives are brand new I know new ones can fail but these are not (knock on wood). I am now uploading my files to a cloud for backup hopefully this will help and keep them safe.
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