vlc movie player

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Sat Feb 9 12:23:25 MST 2013


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 <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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>
>                 <mailto: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>
>                 <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.__com
>                 <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>>
>                          <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.
>                 <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.>____com
>
>                          <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.__com
>                 <mailto: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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