vlc movie player

Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 12:58:56 MST 2013


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 <brian at 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 <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>
>>
>>                 <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<kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>
>> >
>>                 <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.__**com
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>>                          <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.
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>>                          <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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