Playing HD files?

The Mad Rapper

The Mad Rapper

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It is my son's 1st Birthday today and I've recorded him opening his presents on a Panasonic HDC-SD9 HD video camera I borrowed from work.

When I try to watch the files back on VLC, it'll play the files but they are exceptionally jerky. When viewed through the camera they are fine.

Any ideas how I can sort this? It appears to me as though this is possibly a codec issue?

The files are 1920x1080 resolution and .mts extension.
 
If you have Compiz on start by turning it off. HD media is exceptionally CPU intensive to play. Is your hardware up to it? You might try another media player too. I'm a recent fan of smplayer.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
If you have Compiz on start by turning it off. HD media is exceptionally CPU intensive to play. Is your hardware up to it? You might try another media player too. I'm a recent fan of smplayer.
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Thanks Billy.

I am trying to view the files on my fiancée's laptop, it's a 1.86GHz Pentium M with 1GB RAM. I suspect that may be the problem.
 
no one said anything about linux, but thanks for assuming we know your entire computing setup indepth without any sig or mention of it
 
oxygene said:
no one said anything about linux, but thanks for assuming we know your entire computing setup indepth without any sig or mention of it
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Are you blind? I posted in the Linux forum for a reason :p

The people who matter here (i.e. not you) know exactly what O/S I use etc.

Thanks for your insightful and incredibly helpful post :)
 
You have an interesting point there. Humble pie eaten. I just go to new posts since last visit and browse the topics. Apologies
 
Yeah, for HD, make sure your hardware is up to it. You want a fast P4 or better preferably. My Pentium M @ 2ghz can't manage HD in OpenSuse, or Windows for that matter.
 
I've been a fan of smplayer for ages (it basically makes mplayer a pleasure to use...), but I've noticed that it does take more clock cycles than vlc does.

Try changing your video output from x11 to something else (I think you can do that in vlc as well... but it will be in the advanced options / config file).
 
.walls said:
I've been a fan of smplayer for ages (it basically makes mplayer a pleasure to use...), but I've noticed that it does take more clock cycles than vlc does.

Try changing your video output from x11 to something else (I think you can do that in vlc as well... but it will be in the advanced options / config file).
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Agreed, you cant go wrong with SMplayer its top notch :)
 
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