MP4 video poor playback...is there a fix?

[tweezak]

No problem. Please report back if it works for you. And mark the thread solved, so others can find the solution (if it does work of course )

Ok...now I feel really stupid. I guess the reason nobody has been posting problems with this camera is because this was so easy to fix.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Problem solved!

[rubylaser]

Great, glad to hear it Under Thread Tools at the top, you can mark the thread a [SOLVED].

[tweezak]

No problem. Please report back if it works for you. And mark the thread solved, so others can find the solution (if it does work of course )

So I just tried this on my desktop machine (also Nvidia) and I'm getting the following error:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I may have fouled something up in all my tweaking. I've tried reinstalling everything listed in synaptic that seems related to VDPAU with no change.

Any suggestions?

BTW...the card is a GeForce 6200 AGP

Thanks!

[BicyclerBoy]

Anything before 8xxx family has no VDPAU capability..

There is no AGP VDPAU video card (AFAIK).
AGP does not have the bandwidth for decoded HD playback.

There is a PCI 9500GT with VDPAU that works okay (feature set B).

The recommended are PCIe GT430, GT240, GT220 (feature set C). These don't have component out options (AFAIK).

BTW
My netbook atom HP mini plays SD (576i) H264 broadcast material okay/watchable with intel i915 driver..
I imagine your video is lower resolution & less compressed..

[tweezak]

Anything before 8xxx family has no VDPAU capability..

There is no AGP VDPAU video card (AFAIK).
AGP does not have the bandwidth for decoded HD playback.

There is a PCI 9500GT with VDPAU that works okay (feature set B).

The recommended are PCIe GT430, GT240, GT220 (feature set C). These don't have component out options (AFAIK).

BTW
My netbook atom HP mini plays SD (576i) H264 broadcast material okay/watchable with intel i915 driver..
I imagine your video is lower resolution & less compressed..

Hmm...I'll have to boot into windows and see what it does.

As far as the HP...Your HP netbook has an intel GPU?
My mini 311 has the atom as the main cpu but the GPU is the Nvidia ION. Therefore I'm using an Nvidia driver with excellent results. I actually chose this netbook because it supports 1080p and has an HDMI port. I want to use it as a media PC.

Thanks again. I'll let you know how the winduhs test goes.

[BicyclerBoy]

Good choice of netbook..

Mine was a favour-to-help-a-mate purchase , just the crappy intel GPU.
The whole atom (270 330) think is a bad joke. The chipset uses more power than the CPU & a discrete mobile nvidia GPU..

Can't use VDPAU playback for 6200 video card only XVideo OpenGL etc..

[tweezak]

Just by way of an update, I've more or less switched over to my netbook from my old tower.

I used the HDMI port for video through a DVI adapter to my monitor. I'm extending the desktop which seems to work pretty well but sometimes I have trouble getting windows to go to the display I choose.

Other than that it seems fine.

Audio is handled by plugging my old powered computer speakers into the headphone jack on the netbook. I'm using ethernet instead of wireless while set up in this location. All of my peripherals (keyboard, mouse, ipod, flip camera, etc.) are plugged into a 7 port USB hub which I have plugged into my netbook.

So, 5 plugs total: power, HDMI, ethernet, usb and audio.

FWIW...I tried VGA but it was harder to plug in than HDMI and it didn't seem to produce as clear an image as the HDMI-DVI solution.

All I need now is a USB2 3.5" IDE enclosure to put my 320GB HDD from my old tower in. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks!

[BicyclerBoy]

Funny that the netbook is more capable than the old tower PC..

Just use the tower as a HDD/optical drive enclosure & PSU box..

[tweezak]

Funny that the netbook is more capable than the old tower PC..

Just use the tower as a HDD/optical drive enclosure & PSU box..

Well, we'll have to see if the netbook lasts as long as the tower. I think I built that about 8 years ago. Granted, I've upgraded a few things since then and that's one of the main reasons to go with a desktop...you can work on it yourself. My issue is that my needs are finally exceeding the capabilities of my old architecture (AGP and IDE specifically).