I recently purchased a Flash Video camcorder. It is a Samsung SMX-F34BN. When I record and playback on the device or on my tv, everything plays just as I recorded it. Though, when I upload it to my pc it plays at low quality. It skips around when it should play smoothly. Audio is intermittent as well.
I have WinXP Home and originally had 1.5 gig ram. Someone told me I needed more ram so I got some more and now I have 2.5 gig but it still does the same thing. When playing my video it uses up 100% of my CPU Usage. It plays at low quality on all media players and through my mp4 player that came with the device. I tried it on my nice Panasonic Toughbook at work and it plays fine.
I will try and reformat everything tonight and see if that helps any.
Any other suggestions to try or that may be causing this problem? Thanks!
How are you uploading it to the pc ?
What editing software have you installed on your pc ?
usb 2.0 Thats the only way it works since this is a flash camcorder. I have also tried recording to the SD card and putting it on my pc that way. It plays fine on other pc's doing it the same way I do it on this pc.
If it plays ok on other pc's , what kind of pc do you have ?
H264 video needs a lot more cpu power and/or graphics processor capability than dv or mpeg2.
well, i've noticed that if I convert it from mp4 to mpeg it seems to play much better if not perfect.
I'll try asking a different way.
Your pc uses what processor ?
Your friends uses what processor ?
If converting to another format plays better , a format that requires less processor power to show , then I suggest your pc is underpowerred to play the original files.
I built this pc about 5 years ago and am starting to find out that its becoming outdated and I may need a new one soon.
It has an AMD Athlon processor and I don't know what the other pc has, but I'm sure its top of the line.
I reformatted my pc last night and it helped a little, though still runs at 100% and video is a little choppy.
Thanks for your replies. I will just have to get a new pc.
The computer that everything works fine on has an Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU 7500 @ 1.60GHz processor.
The one it works on is a more powerfull machine by a factor of about 4.
Their is no way that you can expect a machine of that age to play a high spec codec without some help from a graphics card with a chipset that accelerates the video playback.
I am willing to bet that the camera software states what level of pc is needed for replaying the footage.
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz minimum. ( or AMD equiv )
Thanks for all of your help. I am going to start building a new pc next week.