So lets look at what we have in terms of video / audio.
1)Repeated unimportant segments of video.
2)A fairly good sounding audio track.
3)An audio track which is not the same length of the video track.
4)The video issues do not start happening till over 20 minutes into the uploaded video, and then happen at multiple times over the next 15 minutes.
What can we conclude about the video? Well I can't conclude anything, but I sure get a lot of questions.
Could this be an issue with the recording of the video stream? I don't know seems like we might have some experts here on video recording equipment here that might be able to say if this is a type of problem that is even possible, maybe even some with knowledge of the type of equipment used in police dash cams.
Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before? I haven't but my experience is limited. Anyone else?
Why is the audio OK but the video is bad? Well audio and video could be recorded separately, and if they weren't they are not hard to separate, and audio is much easier to edit.
Could the video of been edited? Well sure it was probably at least cut for upload. If it was edited the editor really sucked.
If the video was edited, why would the video be edited? Maybe it was cut to remove something that happened in one of the frames somewhere during one of the repeats. Maybe the audio was edited too and it was edited to more closely match the audio length (matching just as well as the video was edited). Maybe someone started editing the video to hide something in a missing segment and didn't finish or get to the audio before it was uploaded.
What other things besides editing and recording failure could explain the video issue? I don't know.
Do we have any experts here who given the available youtube video on the Texas Department of Public Safetys youtube page could do analysis on a more in depth level than watching it? I don't know but I think this question is why I see this belonging on Hacker News.
No. No, no, no! We do not live in a universe where "issues uploading" a video results in edits to that video. That explanation is immeasurably implausible.
Is sharing doctored evidence with the media a crime itself, or is it only a crime if that evidence is used in court? Sure, the are free to only share a subset because of privacy etc., but purposefully misleading?
When that uploading includes recoding and other processing, it's plausible.
This video is probably encoded 2-3 times. The first time it is digitized in the camera. The cops might have recoded after taking it off the camera. And then youtube.
This is some low budget police department whose IT department is probably a secretary who happened to have a PC at her house in 1993 when the spot was created.
Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.
> Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.
That's because they are supposed to make edits (cutting out the commercial breaks, for instance), the errors happen because the edits are done hastily, in order to release first.
The police isn't supposed to edit or tamper with the video at all, and I can't imagine any way edits like this (missing bits and looping) can just appear by accident or technical error. The only edit I can imagine to happen by accident is an interrupted upload/transfer, which would cause the video to be truncated at some point, all the way to the end. It can't just leave parts out in the middle or loop certain bits.
One thing that lends doubt to the malice hypothesis is my hope that nobody would be so dumb as to think that such a ham-fisted attempt at manipulation would pass muster. But so far I am at a loss to imagine what kind of errors would result in that video.
Please name a technical problem which would result in the same bit of video appearing more than once in a sequence.
If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure! But this most certainly is not that, let's be clear.
This is not a technical "problem". There is incompetence here, I agree, but not the flavor you are suggesting.
I don't remember him saying "Because you know your rights" in response to that question, which she asked quite a few times (she did declare that she knew her rights, but that was the only mention of rights I remember). I also don't remember him answering "Because no one'll believe you." I want to say he did answer "Because I can.", although I can't be certain without investing more time than I have to devote to this right now.
I don't have the best of memories though, if this quote does happen in the video can some one give us a time stamp. I mean I assume its after asking her to put out her cigarette and before her head was slammed into the concrete if this conversation did take place, but as I said don't have the time at the moment to check.
1)Repeated unimportant segments of video.
2)A fairly good sounding audio track.
3)An audio track which is not the same length of the video track.
4)The video issues do not start happening till over 20 minutes into the uploaded video, and then happen at multiple times over the next 15 minutes.
What can we conclude about the video? Well I can't conclude anything, but I sure get a lot of questions.
Could this be an issue with the recording of the video stream? I don't know seems like we might have some experts here on video recording equipment here that might be able to say if this is a type of problem that is even possible, maybe even some with knowledge of the type of equipment used in police dash cams.
Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before? I haven't but my experience is limited. Anyone else?
Why is the audio OK but the video is bad? Well audio and video could be recorded separately, and if they weren't they are not hard to separate, and audio is much easier to edit.
Could the video of been edited? Well sure it was probably at least cut for upload. If it was edited the editor really sucked.
If the video was edited, why would the video be edited? Maybe it was cut to remove something that happened in one of the frames somewhere during one of the repeats. Maybe the audio was edited too and it was edited to more closely match the audio length (matching just as well as the video was edited). Maybe someone started editing the video to hide something in a missing segment and didn't finish or get to the audio before it was uploaded.
What other things besides editing and recording failure could explain the video issue? I don't know.
Do we have any experts here who given the available youtube video on the Texas Department of Public Safetys youtube page could do analysis on a more in depth level than watching it? I don't know but I think this question is why I see this belonging on Hacker News.