if I remember right I had problems installing the fglrx drivers but I would like to try to install them again. I can't find where to attempt this from. Can I get some direction? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > An 800Mhz processor seems a little weak to me. The video card might be > fine. Are you running the AMD catalyst proprietary drivers (fglrx), If > not, you might want to try those out, your video players might be able to > use your video card to decompress the video. That video card is fairly low > end and from my brief searching on the net there are mixed opinions as to > if it will decode an HD video stream. > > If you are already running the catalyst drivers, it sounds like you are > just plain lacking the horse power to effectively playback the video. > > What you can do is use something like handbrake or avidemux and convert > the movie to 720p or 480i and your system should have no problem what so > ever playing back those videos. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 02/09/2013 12:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> lspci tells me my video card is : >> >> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] >> nee ATI Wrestler >> [Radeon HD 6250] >> >> and lscpu tells me : >> >> Architecture: i686 >> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit >> Byte Order: Little Endian >> CPU(s): 2 >> On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 >> Thread(s) per core: 1 >> Core(s) per socket: 2 >> Socket(s): 1 >> Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD >> CPU family: 20 >> Model: 1 >> Stepping: 0 >> CPU MHz: 800.000 >> BogoMIPS: 1995.77 >> Virtualization: AMD-V >> L1d cache: 32K >> L1i cache: 32K >> L2 cache: 512K >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Brian Cluff > > wrote: >> >> What processor and video card are you running? >> >> Brian >> >> >> On 02/09/2013 11:26 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> how could I verify the horse power thing? >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Michael Havens > >> >> wrote: >> >> could maybe a device driver be the problem? Oh yeah..... >> thanks for >> showing me where 'prefrences' is. Now I don't need to keep >> telling >> it to deinterlace! >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Michael Havens >> >> >> wrote: >> >> I guess it must be the horse power because none of the >> above >> suggestions worked. I then plugged my laptop into my TV >> to see >> if that would do anything but my none of the windows >> appear on >> the TV only the desktop photo. >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Brian Cluff >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> I got it... and it played fine on my computer? >> It's just an >> MPEG-TS container with H264 video codec and AC3 >> audio codec. >> The video is full HD 1920x1080. That's all really >> standard stuff. >> >> My guess to your problem is that your computer just >> doesn't >> have enough horse power to play back a full HD >> video, and/or >> your video drivers are slow enough they they can't >> keep up. >> >> If you think your computer has enough power to play >> back the >> video perhaps the video players are trying to use >> the video >> card for hardware acceleration and the video card >> can't keep >> up with a high definition video. I have a couple >> of systems >> that I use for mythtv that can't handle hardware >> acceleration of HD video, so I have to turn it off >> to get it >> to get it to play back right.. >> >> In VLC go into the preferences and select Video. >> Then >> UNCHECK the box next to "Accelerated video output >> (overlay)". Also click on input and Codecs and >> uncheck the >> box next to "Use GPU accelerated decoding" That >> should make >> VLC use your CPU to decompress the video and if you >> have >> enough horsepower it should actually play >> correctly. If >> that's not checked already trying checking them and >> see if >> that makes a difference. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> >> On 02/08/2013 02:45 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/___**_eg4ekk5pdlsgag4/VTLJ7b4Aa7 >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> there, I got a file up. >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Brian Cluff >> >> > >> > > >>> >> >> wrote: >> >> Can you post an example of one of one of >> your >> camera files >> somewhere? I'd line to see one close up. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> On 01/26/2013 02:29 PM, Michael Havens >> wrote: >> >> I just got out of chat with sony tech >> support: >> >> 2:17 PM Bridget_ (C53O): >> >> Yes, the videos will be saved in the >> AVCHD folder. >> 2:17 PM Customer: >> >> the file format is mts >> 2:18 PM Bridget_ (C53O): >> >> Yes, MTS format is also called as AVCHD. >> 2:21 PM Bridget_ (C53O): >> >> The videos recorded in this Camera will >> be >> saved in extension as >> .MTS, >> but it will be of AVCHD, MP4 format. >> 2:21 PM Customer: >> >> okay >> 2:21 PM Customer: >> >> what is the codec used? >> 2:23 PM Bridget_ (C53O): >> >> The video codec information can be >> found by >> contacting the Operating >> System developer >> Does this help any? >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Kevin >> Brown >> > > >> > >> >> > _**___com >> > >>> >> > . >> > .>**______com >> >> >> >> > _**___com >> > >>>>> >> wrote: >> >> Which just means that the >> camera is able >> to playback files it >> creates which says you need to >> figure out >> what the actual >> Codec is >> that the camera is using to >> Encode/Decode >> the video. >> >> The videos showed fine on the >> camera >> and any new films >> I create >> are fine on the camera. >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**________--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**______org >> > . >> > .>_**___p__hxlinux.org >> >> >> >> >> > __**p__hxlinux.org< >> http://phxlinux.org> >> >> >> >>>> >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to >> change >> your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**____mailman/listinfo/plug-__** >> discuss< >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**___mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> > >> >> > discuss >> >> **>__> >> >> >> >> >> > discuss >> >> **> >> >> >> >> >**>__> >> >> >> >> > discuss >> >> **> >> >> >> >**> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >**>__>__> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**______--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**____org >> > __**p__hxlinux.org< >> http://phxlinux.org> >> >> >> >>> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to >> change your >> mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**__mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> >> **> >> >> >> >> >**> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >**>__> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**______--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**____org >> > __**p__hxlinux.org< >> http://phxlinux.org> >> >> >> >>> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change >> your mail >> settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**__mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> >> **> >> >> >> >> >**> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >**>__> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**____--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**__org >> >> >> >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your >> mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > >> >> >> >**> >> >> >> ------------------------------** >> ____--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**__org >> >> >> >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail >> settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > >> >> >> >> >**> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org >> >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org >> >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >