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Question

L3 Communications Flashback Player

Nov 8, 2014 3:15PM PST

Hi all, I'm new here and hoping you can help. I'm trying to transcribe videos using a DVD with L3 Communications' Flashback Player. When I open the files I can see the menu with screenshots, but after clicking on a specific video it just shows me a black screen. Can you help? Is this just a bad copy or can I do something on my end to fix it? The company themselves refused to answer my question. Thank you!!!

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Re: player
Nov 8, 2014 7:25PM PST

The only google hit for "L3 Communications' Flashback Player" is your post here. So it seems you're using a unique product nobody but you knows about. That makes it difficult to answer.

Moreover, it isn't really clear to me what "transcribe videos using a DVD". And to ask even more: what videos?

Kees

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Additional Information
Nov 9, 2015 4:52PM PST

I know this is an old post but wanted to add some clarification for anyone who happens upon it. L3 Communications is a government contractor dealing with many things, mostly for the Department of Defense, NSA, Homeland Security, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-3_Communications

Flashback (actually called Mobile Vision) is a system used by the military and law enforcement agencies to record video from mobile units. You can find it in military and police / fire vehicles, along with other applications where a professional video recording system would be useful that has chain of custody reporting and other advanced features.

http://www.mobile-vision.com/

You were likely given a disc from a law enforcement agency and the disc should have contained the proper application to play the video. Embedded with the video is a lot of information like GPS, radar, vehicle information and audio tracks for microphones involved, which is why you cannot just play it with something like VLC. If you do not have the application on the disc you were given then you should be able to request another copy from the originating agency and they can provide you with an appropriate export. One note - to my knowledge there is no Mac version of the software so you'll need to play the video using the provided application on a Microsoft Windows client.

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Download Codecs
Feb 5, 2015 4:44AM PST

Try downloading the 'K-Lite Codec Mega' pack. It will also fix the 'Failed to Load URL' issue in windows 8.

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When adding this, BE SPECIFIC where to get a clean download.
Feb 5, 2015 11:39PM PST
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Clean Download
Feb 6, 2015 2:14AM PST
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Thanks for that. Confirming with (sorry about that) Wikiped
Feb 6, 2015 2:23AM PST
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reminded me of ....
Feb 6, 2015 2:20AM PST

...the old dictaphone days and transcribing from them.

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Additional Information (Re-posting using "Answer" button
Nov 9, 2015 4:54PM PST

I know this is an old post but wanted to add some clarification for anyone who happens upon it. L3 Communications is a government contractor dealing with many things, mostly for the Department of Defense, NSA, Homeland Security, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-3_Communications

Flashback (actually called Mobile Vision) is a system used by the military and law enforcement agencies to record video from mobile units. You can find it in military and police / fire vehicles, along with other applications where a professional video recording system would be useful that has chain of custody reporting and other advanced features.

http://www.mobile-vision.com/

You were likely given a disc from a law enforcement agency and the disc should have contained the proper application to play the video. Embedded with the video is a lot of information like GPS, radar, vehicle information and audio tracks for microphones involved, which is why you cannot just play it with something like VLC. If you do not have the application on the disc you were given then you should be able to request another copy from the originating agency and they can provide you with an appropriate export. One note - to my knowledge there is no Mac version of the software so you'll need to play the video using the provided application on a Microsoft Windows client.

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Same issue
Dec 4, 2015 9:26AM PST

I work for a law firm and am trying to open a dvd with a dashcam video on it. The html page on the disk doesn't open the flashbackplayer correctly. I am looking for the commandline options with this file.

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Commandline is usually in a text box.
Dec 4, 2015 10:13AM PST

So only a few character based players were ever put out there.


Did you try VLC PLAYER on the video file? And yes, VLC Player does have commandline options.

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Try browsing the disk
Dec 4, 2015 12:58PM PST

Hello,

You should be able to open the disk via Windows Explorer and open the .EXE file from the DVD manually. This is assuming the disk was created the proper way and came with all necessary support files to play the video.

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Just to Clarify
Jan 9, 2016 9:00PM PST

Wow so many responses! Yes, this was dash cam video for a PD. I use a Mac and ended up installing Parallels, which allowed me to run the program just fine on the 2014 case. However, I still had problems with running it on other PCs with Windows.

I have a new case today with the same software and now the player controls aren't visible on the player. Everything else seems to work fine. Really wish departments would stop using this frustrating software, or that L3 Communications would bother to help the transcribers stuck working with it.