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 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 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 >>> there, I got a file up. >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Brian Cluff >> > 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 >>> >>> > >>> >> >>> >>> >>> 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@lists.phxlinux.__* >>> *__org >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> > >>> >> mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >**> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org >>> >>> > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**__--------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org >>> >>> > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------**--------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >