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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: vlc movie player
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<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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