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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 whic

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.

ck2 11y ago
They are now claiming there were technical issues uploading it and are going to re-post it corrected. This is plausible. But is this quote really from the video or someone's imagination? If it is true, holy hell: "Why are you arresting me?" "Because you know your rights." "Because I can." "Because no one'll believe you."
- genericuser 11y ago
  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.
- verytrivial 11y ago
  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?
  - fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
    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.
  - ck2 11y ago
    Several journalists have seen the original video on the original equipment the other day and they said there were no problems like this with it. This can be a whole bunch of technical problems, or more likely incompetence with uploading it.
    - verytrivial 11y ago
      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.
jayvanguard 11y ago
> Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before? No, this isn't anywhere in the realm of what could happen during uploading. The video has very clearly been edited intentionally by a human. Poorly.

ck2 11y ago

They are now claiming there were technical issues uploading it and are going to re-post it corrected. This is plausible. But is this quote really from the video or someone's imagination? If it is true, holy hell: "Why are you arresting me?" "Because you know your rights." "Because I can." "Because no one'll believe you."

genericuser 11y ago
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.
verytrivial 11y ago
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?
- fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
  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.
- ck2 11y ago
  Several journalists have seen the original video on the original equipment the other day and they said there were no problems like this with it. This can be a whole bunch of technical problems, or more likely incompetence with uploading it.
  - verytrivial 11y ago
    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.

jayvanguard 11y ago

> Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before? No, this isn't anywhere in the realm of what could happen during uploading. The video has very clearly been edited intentionally by a human. Poorly.