vlc movie player
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 14:05:36 MST 2013
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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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 <brian at snaptek.com
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> <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>>
>> <mailto: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
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.**com <kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>>>
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.>_**___com
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.__**com
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.**com <kevinbrownbdc at gmail.com>>>>
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail>.
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail>.>**______com
>>
>>
>>
>> <mailto:kevinbrownbdc at gmail.
>> <mailto: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~(-:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**________---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**______org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists>.
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists>.>_**___p__hxlinux.org
>> <http://p__hxlinux.org>
>> <http://phxlinux.org>
>>
>>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.>__**p__hxlinux.org<http://p__hxlinux.org><
>> http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.__p**hxlinux.org<http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >>>>
>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to
>> change
>> your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**____mailman/listinfo/plug-__**
>> discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/________mailman/listinfo/plug-__discuss><
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**___mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**___mailman/listinfo/plug-**
>> discuss <http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> **>__>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**___mailman/listinfo/plug-**
>> discuss <http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> **>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>__>
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**___mailman/listinfo/plug-**
>> discuss <http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> **>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>
>>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>__>__>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**______---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**____org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.>__**p__hxlinux.org<http://p__hxlinux.org><
>> http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.__p**hxlinux.org<http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to
>> change your
>> mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**__mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> **>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>
>>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>__>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**______---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**____org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.>__**p__hxlinux.org<http://p__hxlinux.org><
>> http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.__p**hxlinux.org<http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change
>> your mail
>> settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**__mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/______mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> **>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>
>>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/___**_mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>__>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**____---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**__org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.__p**hxlinux.org<http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your
>> mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**
>> ____---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>> PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**__org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.__p**hxlinux.org<http://phxlinux.org>
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail
>> settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >**>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**__---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**__---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.__**org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.**org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>>
>>
> ------------------------------**---------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.**org<PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20130209/ab0006ec/attachment.html>
More information about the PLUG-discuss
mailing list