Concert in the Square - Wisconsin (2004)

[Stephany]

Hello Graham,

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the videos from the 2004 Wisconsin concert. There are several more on Youtube now:
- 'Who painted the moon black'
- 'Never say goodbye'
- 'Ave Maria'

Stephany

[gra7890]

Thanks Stephany,
All 'favorited' as YOU TUBE say
In Ave Maria I thought Hayley was about to be 'blown away' by what sounded like a gale ! She brushed back her hair and carried on as if nothing had happened!!!!
Graeme has posted an 'idiots guide' to download so I am going to give it a go in a bit when I have finished and hopefully the Broadband should be quiet on a Sunday morning. I am listening to the 5 Youtube posts as I write this FANTASTIC i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Thanks yet again, Stephany

[gra7890]

Thanks Graeme,
I hope the 'idiots guide' you kindly posted will work for me!
I have listened to 5 of Hayley's songs, that Stephany alerted me to, on Youtube, they have certainly 'wet my appetite'. I am going to give it a go when I have finished doing my other stuff on the computer and hopefully the Broadband should be quiet on a Sunday morning.
Instructions 'printed out' so there should not be a problem, hopefully !
Thanks Graham

[gra7890]

Hi Graeme,
I think the download was successful.?
However I think there must be a problem with my software.
I can only hear the concert not see it ?
Any advice/comments will be gratefully received.

Thanks for all your efforts, sorry to be so IT slow,
Best Wishes, Graham

[Tasslehoff]

You'll probably need what called an mp4 codec (decoder) which are freely available on the net after lots of searching or use a standalone media player like VLC media Player which is less dangerous to not buggering up any codec filter settings as they're all built into the program.

I use the K-lite codec pack found here.
www.majorgeeks.com/K-Lite_Codec_Pack_Full_d4844.html
To be on the safe side when installing unselect everything and just select the H264 directshow filter near the top and right down near the bottom of the list the VFW video codecs x264 box. Alternatively you can go for broke like me and install on the default settings.

[Paddy]

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Thanks to you all

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The best Christmas present ever!


Paddy

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[Paddy]

gra7890 said:

Thanks Graeme,
I hope the 'idiots guide' you kindly posted will work for me!
I have listened to 5 of Hayley's songs, that Stephany alerted me to, on Youtube, they have certainly 'wet my appetite'. I am going to give it a go when I have finished doing my other stuff on the computer and hopefully the Broadband should be quiet on a Sunday morning.
Instructions 'printed out' so there should not be a problem, hopefully !
Thanks Graham

P.S.

K-Lite includes a media player.

Paddy

[Dave]

Many thanks to Jason (how did we miss this at the time? ) Graeme and Stephany for resurrecting this old video - that's what I call great teamwork!

I finally got a few minutes to acquire this video and as some people will be having trouble with either the large file size or the mp4 format, I am currently enhancing the video and converting it into good old Windows Media video and audio format, at a much lower bitrate so everyone should be able to play it or watch it (depending where I upload it to).

In the meantime, you already have the videos uploaded to YouTube by Tasslehof - thanks Adrian (did I get that right? ) welcome to HWI and thanks!

Cheers, Dave

[gra7890]

To Tasslehoff and Dave,
Thank you both for your efforts. The last download suggested seems too complicated ( and dangerous)for me, I dont like the idea of settings getting changed !
I think I will therefore wait until Dave's efforts are available.
I can at least now hear the concert as I am on HWI Forum !
I will also have seeing it to look forward to.
Thank you.
Best Wishes Graham

[Nordly]

I was in the middle of a post for this thread when my power went out- so what was I saying??

Oh- I figured out how to play it yesterday, before I saw this post, but thanks for the help, Graeme!
Graham- you have no video, I have no audio! i'm sticking with the youtube versions- thanks Stephany for the links!!

[Nordly]

there are even more videos from the concert on youtube!

[graemek]

Hi All,
My normal windows media player 11 is quite happy to play Mp4 s.

It just asks if you really want to try it. You just say yes!!

Nero DVD player plays Mp4s as well.

Also good old VLC.

Sorry you're all having problems. Good solution Dave !!!

Graeme

[Dave]

gra7890 said:

To Tasslehoff and Dave,
Thank you both for your efforts. The last download suggested seems too complicated ( and dangerous)for me, I dont like the idea of settings getting changed !
I think I will therefore wait until Dave's efforts are available.

Hi Graham and everyone,

Here you go... The Introduction, Hayley's entire contribution to the show and the ending.

It's a Windows Media Video file at the same frame size but a much lower bitrate then the original - though I did chop out the black borders at the side and some of the VHS interference at the bottom so... 352 x 236. I also cut out all the non-Hayley music and increased the contrast a bit.

So it's at a 300 kbps bitrate, much lower than I usually do to keep the file down to a manageable size for hopefully everyone.

Concert in the Park 2004 - Hayley in Wisconsin (31 minutes, 300 kbps, 69 MB)

You can probably get away with playing this video at double size, it's just about good enough for that and some of you might even risk it in full screen though that's arguable! I may do higher quality individual videos of each song later... in the meantime you have Tasslehof's YouTube videos to look at

Cheers, Dave

[Nordly]

only 31 minutes??? Are you sure that's the whole thing??

[Nordly]

ps- thanks Dave!