I have many times opened .f4v files in VideoPad but this most recent one won't open. I CAN view the file using VLC. VideoPad takes considerable time trying to load the file. It's a long one - about a 3-hour town meeting, although others I have processed have even been longer. I need to convert it to flv and wmv (for later edit with WavePad to extract the sound and store as mp3).
I have copied the file and had the same results on the copy.
Since I can read it fine using VLC I conclude that there's something wrong at the very end. The person recording it - using Adobe media recorder - may have shut the recording process down wrong somehow - although I can't imagine how unless he closed the program without stopping the recording/streaming.
I have tried re-recording with various means (CamStudio, Adobe) but haven't been able to get a good combination of video and sound. The only success, if you'd call it that - is using a camera on the screen and a microphone on the speakers!
I'd sure like to know of a way to get WavePad to accept the file or to copy the file. If anyone wants to look at the file and monkey with it it's at http://deweytown.us/TownMeeting_20121013.f4v