vlc movie player

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at 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 <brian at 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>
>>> there, I got a file up.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>>> <mailto:brian at 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
>>>         <kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.**com<kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>>         <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.__**com
>>>
>>>         <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.**com <kevinbrownbdc at 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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