After some [NON-thorough] testing, it looks like OS 8 will work OK on our setups here at MDS.
Here are the “gotchas”:
You MUST have 5.9 gigs of space available on your ipad.
Check it in the Settings App –> General –> About –> Available
Don’t have enough? Move your pictures and videos to your Google drive.
Fire up the Drive app, click the plus sign [top right], and upload FROM the Camera roll. Once you are certain they have been uploaded [doublecheck!], then go to the Camera app, access the camera roll, and delete the files.
You will have to update off campus. Plan on it taking a while- maybe an hour.
Want to know more? Click the links below for more details.
If you are having trouble uploading video to HUDL from your laptop. The app would upload the file and then give an error message. Below is the fix:
I can get the clips to upload into Hudl Mercury but when I click on them to review a red tab drops down saying: Error playing back video: Could not render any streams from the URI source.
The fix:
That’s just a quick setting that we need to change. Here are the steps you can follow to get that changed.
Click the ffdshow folder in the Start Menu
Click ‘Video Decoder Configuration’
Click on ‘Codecs’ on the left side
Make sure H.264/AVC,MPEG1,MPEG2,MPEG in AVI, Other MPEG2 all have the Decoder set to ‘libavcodec’
Click ‘DirectShow control’ on the left and make sure only the first box is checked
Click on ‘Output’ on the left
Make sure the ‘Select closest matching colorspace‘ and ‘Set interface flag in output media type‘ are checked
Make sure the ‘Set pixel aspect ratio in output media type‘ and ‘Allow output format changes during playback’ boxes are shaded Blue
