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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: vlc movie player
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<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 <
>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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
>>         < <mailto:kevinbrownbdc@gmail.**com<>

>> >
>>         <mailto:kevinbrownbdc@gmail.__**com

>>
>>         <mailto:kevinbrownbdc@gmail.**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~(-:

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