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playback of HD footage on laptop

  • 11-11-2009 6:56pm
    #1
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    ok, weird one but i thought i woukd get a good answer in here.

    i have a sanyo xacti cg10 mini HD camcorder.

    when i record in the 2MP mode it records no problem and plays back on my laptop through the SD card no problems.

    but when i record in 10MP HD mode, the file size is noticieably and understandably bigger but when i transfer it to my laptop from the SD card, the footage is skipping as such. sound is ok, but every second or 2 its as if the movie skips a scene. i thought it might of being because of my SD card, but ive just tried a SDHC card and its the same.

    would it have anything to do with playing the video on my laptop that would not be HD ready as in how a HD TV would be???

    so in other words, i have to record in 2MP mode just incase i want to watch it somewhere where theres no HD screen to watch it on??

    in my video menu i have the following options :
    1. HD-SHQ 1280x720fps SHQ
    2. TV-HR 640x480 60fps HR
    3. TV-SHQ 640x480 30fps SHQ

    thanks for listening.


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  • #2
    CLADA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭CLADA


    Had exactly the same problem when I bought a HD camcorder, the video was freezing and skipping etc.. when I transferred the files to my laptop.

    It's the laptop thats the problem, mine wasn't powerful enough to play the high definition files (H.264). I tried them on a friends laptop that had a quad core processor and there was no problem.

    So if you want to edit your video files on a laptop you will probably need to upgrade.

    I didn't need to edit so I just copied the files to a portable hard drive and bought a WDTV player which plays the files in glorious high definition on my tv.

    Here's a link to a thread that ran in bargain alerts on the wdtv player, may not be what you're looking for but it worked for me.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055606232&highlight=wdtv


  • #3
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    CLADA wrote: »
    Had exactly the same problem when I bought a HD camcorder, the video was freezing and skipping etc.. when I transferred the files to my laptop.

    It's the laptop thats the problem, mine wasn't powerful enough to play the high definition files (H.264). I tried them on a friends laptop that had a quad core processor and there was no problem.

    So if you want to edit your video files on a laptop you will probably need to upgrade.

    I didn't need to edit so I just copied the files to a portable hard drive and bought a WDTV player which plays the files in glorious high definition on my tv.

    Here's a link to a thread that ran in bargain alerts on the wdtv player, may not be what you're looking for but it worked for me.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055606232&highlight=wdtv

    i got it sorted by updating the codecs on my laptop.
    thanks.


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