Vertov

Kudos to Concordia Digital History Lab for their new free media annotating plugin
http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/vertov/
Screencasts and notes from Dan Cohen at
http://www.dancohen.org/2008/03/18/vertov-brings-video-annotation-to-zotero/

Anybody using it yet?

-Jodi
  • I tried to use this and couldn't get it to work. It plays the audio fine but the video freezes on the first frame. I was trying to annotate one of the Berkman Center's videos (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2008/02/hyde) and I'm on a MacBook Pro running Leopard. It also seemed to want to scale the video to fit its own window. It's a great idea though, will look forward to using it
  • edited March 24, 2008
    claireystew--
    We added support for wav and mp3 files but in the process disabled video display by mistake. This is now fixed--thanks! Please update to Vertov 0.7.1.2 in your Add-ons to get the video functionality back.
  • Vertov is no longer working for me. Thanks for any help getting it going again. (Using WinXP SP2)

    I started again from the beginning: Firefox 2.0.0.13, reinstalled Java, reinstalled QT, reinstalled Vertov plugin (7.2.2).
    I can play a QT compatible file within the browser and add it to Zotero and edit the info.
    When I click on the parent entry, then click on View Snapshot, I get an empty box with a red stylized X in the upper left corner.
    At the bottom of the browser, I get this message:
    "Applet org.mediannotate.app.MediAnnotater notinited"

    Right clicking on the box, I can open the Java console and get the following:

    Java Plug-in 1.6.0_05
    Using JRE version 1.6.0_05 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
    User home directory = C:\Documents and Settings\Mark

    ----------------------------------------------------
    c: clear console window
    f: finalize objects on finalization queue
    g: garbage collect
    h: display this help message
    l: dump classloader list
    m: print memory usage
    o: trigger logging
    p: reload proxy configuration
    q: hide console
    r: reload policy configuration
    s: dump system and deployment properties
    t: dump thread list
    v: dump thread stack
    x: clear classloader cache
    0-5: set trace level to <n>
    ----------------------------------------------------

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: quicktime/QTException
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: quicktime.QTException
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
    ... 10 more
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: quicktime/QTException
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: quicktime.QTException
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
    ... 10 more
    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: quicktime/QTException
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: quicktime.QTException
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
    ... 10 more
  • Hello. Sounds like QT didn't stick QTJava.zip in the right spot:
    C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\lib\ext\
    should contain a file called QTJava.zip. Quicktime is supposed to be clever enough to put it there during install.

    The above presumes java installed the jre there.

    If you can find that folder, but the file isn't there, do a file search for QTJava.zip
    (There should be a current copy in C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem)

    If you can't find that java folder, you'll have to figure out where it's installed, but that's the default install location under windows.
  • Thank you sthiel.
    The QTJava.zip was not in the Java directory but in the QTSystem folder as you suspected.
    I copied the zip file to C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\lib\ext\ as you indicated, and then I unzipped it. (Ie, there is now a "quicktime" subdirectory under ...\lib\ext\ )

    I am still getting the same problem, however. Any other ideas?
  • Hello,

    It's the QTJava.zip itslef that needs to exist under \lib\ext\
    no subdirectory.

    That should fix it.
  • Restarted the system and now it works. Thanks.

    Two small items that don't seem to affect functioning:
    1) I need to double-click (not single-click) "View Snapshot" in order to be able to play the file.

    2) When I mark a section and then try to save it, everytime I get an "Alert" that says: "TypeError:item.updateNote is not a function"
    I can click okay, and everything still seems to work.
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