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5D MKII PC Playback - Good Solution Found!
This may be old news here. My search here didn't come up with anything so if this is a old news, I apologize in advance.
I've had a _lot_ of issues trying to play back my 5D .mov files on my computer systems. Nothing I tried would result in clean playback without stutter (even the Zoombrowser EX - which played the files the best - stuttered a little). I even started transcoding my files using TMPGenc but I am very dissapointed in the resulting files outside of the original 5D files. This is not the right solution long term. I am also very disappointed to read other "media players" have various issues (ok video, no audio, etc.). I have an HTPC driving my HDTV display setup at 1920x1080 so PC playback has the potential to let me see my material in the best possible untouched resolutions. I have used VLC player for many years and was disappointed (very surprised) it couldn't handle these files. Well then I found this advice (from: http://www.snappertalk.com/index.php...back-with-vlc/). Hopefully it's ok to re-post the text quoted from the link here: Quote:
Now how to figure out how to do native file editing (no re-encoding except transitions/effects). |
Yes, that has been noted before, but it deserves mentioning often. On another forum people posted over and over that there was no way to play the files on their PC. I posted the instructions that you just did over and over again. I finally gave up.
You forgot one important point. They need to pick up the latest copy of VLC. This trick has only worked in the last few versions. |
I had 5DII files playing nicely in Media Player Classic by re-installing the latest quicktime but it mysteriously started getting jumpy again. I may try re-installing MPC but for now VLC is working perfectly thanks to your advice. Don't give up on giving good advice. Of course, some of this stuff might be a good sticky post.
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With coreavc even a lowly 1.3 ghz subnotebook can handle 5D files relatively smooth :)
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Clearly VLC gives up something in quality for the speed up. I am seeing lots of banding in flat areas like blue sky, etc. FYI, here's coreavc requirements: 1080p video at 24-30 frames per second CPU - 2.8 GHz or faster Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD processor RAM - At least 1GB of RAM GPU - 256MB or greater video card OS - Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista |
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Relatively meaning not 100% real time, but almost. It slows down instead of dropping frames. With the skip deblocking option it manages around 15fps, which is extremely impressive for a notebook that barely keeps up with DV files and can't handle HD vimeo streams. :)
In case you're interested, it's a 1.2ghz pentium M vaio txn17 notebook. No dual cores, intel gma 945 graphics, etc... I was convinced it would never be able to handle any video stream that would take advantage of the very nice 1366 x 768 panel until I tried coreavc. HD vimeo stutters, so does HD youtube, HD wmv and HD quicktime are a slideshow, but with coreavc, it handles almost any h.264 stream I can throw at it. Fwiw, on a macbook pro 2.3 running winxp it handles real time playback with the processor at around 56% and absolutely no skips. |
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That worked perfectly. Thanks for the helpful information. Gregory |
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