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jbuch

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Are you playing it directly off of your camera, or transferring it to the computer first? Also, how fast is your processor and how much ram do you have? What kind of camera?
 

jbuch

New member
Update drivers? Make sure you have the most recent drivers/ updates for your media player and also your video card and sound card. That's about all I can think of, hopefully if that doesn't work someone else has an idea.
 

steve

With "LOD" Since 1997
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Update drivers? Make sure you have the most recent drivers/ updates for your media player and also your video card and sound card. That's about all I can think of, hopefully if that doesn't work someone else has an idea.
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Yup, always look for the newest drivers. Also, try the companies web site, if it is a known issue they probably have an FAQ and fix for it.
 

Last Mrk

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Shouldn't a movie once downloaded into your computer play with Windows Media player or something similar? Does WMP really need drivers? Seems to me it's a problem with the cameras recording function or the download to PC function.

I'm a Mac user and this sounds way too involved to me to just get a movie to play on the PC.


 

johnaec

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I've heard similar stories from time to time. Try reducing your audio hardware acceleration level in the 'Sounds and Audio Multimedia' applet in Control Panel. After opening the applet, go to Audio -> Sound Playback, click 'Advanced', then 'Performance' and try moving the hardware acceleration up or down to different levels. Other than that, I'd experiment with the audio codec settings, (same sound applet, but under the Hardware tab), and also check to see that you have all the latest codecs.

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budpytko

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When you downloaded it onto your hard drive, what kind of file name ext. was it assigned? mpeg , .mov. If you don't have the proper player, it won't play. Sometimes these camera manufacturers have a weird file extension and you have to download their moveie player.
Just a thought...

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sleeper

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Shouldn't a movie once downloaded into your computer play with Windows Media player or something similar? Does WMP really need drivers? Seems to me it's a problem with the cameras recording function or the download to PC function.I'm a Mac user and this sounds way too involved to me to just get a movie to play on the PC. [/div]

"driver" is not the right word. you need the right codec to play the type of file you're trying to play. New compression schemes are constantly coming out, and there are hundreds of ways to encode video, each requiring the correct codec to encode or decode the file. Macs aren't special in this regard, if i sent up a rip of a DVD encoded with the latest and greatest compression, you wouldn't be able to play it without getting the right codec. Of course, maybe Mac has some fancy way to automatically download it, though.
 

BadSax

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Ok, the file extension is .AVI apparently. What I've found is that if I'm not running anything other then W.Media, then the files seem to play fine, however if their is anything else open the files seem to loose their synchronization after a minute or too...

It maybe worth saying that some of these movies are almost a gig in size as well.

I'll have to look into the driver/codec thing, thanks!

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