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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: vlc movie player
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 <
>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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 <
>>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
>>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> 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
>>         < <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
>>              <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> 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
>>         < <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>
>>                  <mailto:brian@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>>>
>>         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>
>>         <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/__**eg4ekk5pdlsgag4/VTLJ7b4Aa7<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/__eg4ekk5pdlsgag4/VTLJ7b4Aa7>

>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>         <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/__**eg4ekk5pdlsgag4/VTLJ7b4Aa7<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/__eg4ekk5pdlsgag4/VTLJ7b4Aa7>
>>         <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>
>>         <mailto:brian@snaptek.com <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>>
>>                          <mailto:brian@snaptek.com
>>         <mailto:brian@snaptek.com> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com
>>         <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 <>>
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>> 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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