Playing Camcorder Files
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I bought a Canon Camcorder last year ( Canon Vixia HF10 or something ), and it is a great camera, which records in 1080i resolution, and produces .mts files. The problem is ... I have never been able to look at the files on any computer decently yet (I can watch them on my TV though, but directly read from the camcorder) ! Mine has no "special featured" video card, and only 4Gb RAM, so no way to get something displayed without it being constantly interrupted and slow. I tried on my wife's and on a friend's laptops, which are more recent, but with Vista, which already sucks up about 1.3Gb from the 4Gb RAM they have, so they finally got less "effective" memory than I do on my XP setup. Can anyone read .mts files decently on their computer ? What setup do you have ? Any idea that may help me out besides changing hardware ? Thanks,
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I bought a Canon Camcorder last year ( Canon Vixia HF10 or something ), and it is a great camera, which records in 1080i resolution, and produces .mts files. The problem is ... I have never been able to look at the files on any computer decently yet (I can watch them on my TV though, but directly read from the camcorder) ! Mine has no "special featured" video card, and only 4Gb RAM, so no way to get something displayed without it being constantly interrupted and slow. I tried on my wife's and on a friend's laptops, which are more recent, but with Vista, which already sucks up about 1.3Gb from the 4Gb RAM they have, so they finally got less "effective" memory than I do on my XP setup. Can anyone read .mts files decently on their computer ? What setup do you have ? Any idea that may help me out besides changing hardware ? Thanks,
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You need a decent PC (Core Duo, 2GHz) with a good graphics card, I would say ATI3850 minimum.
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Yes, I guess so. Sounds trivial, but can it also depends on the player/codec ? After trying some of them, I found out VLC is the best option. The software that comes with the camcorder is pure crap, as are all software coming with hardware. WMP simply just won't display .mts files, whatever codecs are installed on my machine.
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb -
You need a decent PC (Core Duo, 2GHz) with a good graphics card, I would say ATI3850 minimum.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
I think you could go a bit farther down the food chain than that. IIRC ATI/NVidia's current line of budget cards all support decoding standard HD codecs directly so you should be able to watch the video on them regardless of how well/poorly they can game or what the CPU looks like.
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Yes, I guess so. Sounds trivial, but can it also depends on the player/codec ? After trying some of them, I found out VLC is the best option. The software that comes with the camcorder is pure crap, as are all software coming with hardware. WMP simply just won't display .mts files, whatever codecs are installed on my machine.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverbI usually take the rule 'If VLC can't play it nothing can.' So if the problems your having still exists with VLC I'm afraid you'll have to be looking at upgrading your pc a bit.
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I bought a Canon Camcorder last year ( Canon Vixia HF10 or something ), and it is a great camera, which records in 1080i resolution, and produces .mts files. The problem is ... I have never been able to look at the files on any computer decently yet (I can watch them on my TV though, but directly read from the camcorder) ! Mine has no "special featured" video card, and only 4Gb RAM, so no way to get something displayed without it being constantly interrupted and slow. I tried on my wife's and on a friend's laptops, which are more recent, but with Vista, which already sucks up about 1.3Gb from the 4Gb RAM they have, so they finally got less "effective" memory than I do on my XP setup. Can anyone read .mts files decently on their computer ? What setup do you have ? Any idea that may help me out besides changing hardware ? Thanks,
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverbThere was no included software that can convert to a more "natural" format ? As someone else's wrote, if VLC cannot play it, no one can.
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I bought a Canon Camcorder last year ( Canon Vixia HF10 or something ), and it is a great camera, which records in 1080i resolution, and produces .mts files. The problem is ... I have never been able to look at the files on any computer decently yet (I can watch them on my TV though, but directly read from the camcorder) ! Mine has no "special featured" video card, and only 4Gb RAM, so no way to get something displayed without it being constantly interrupted and slow. I tried on my wife's and on a friend's laptops, which are more recent, but with Vista, which already sucks up about 1.3Gb from the 4Gb RAM they have, so they finally got less "effective" memory than I do on my XP setup. Can anyone read .mts files decently on their computer ? What setup do you have ? Any idea that may help me out besides changing hardware ? Thanks,
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverbI have the exacte same camera and I can view the .m2ts files very smoothly on my Dell XPS M1710 (Intel T7400 processor (Core2), 4GB RAM, NVidia GO 9750GTX) and on my desktop (Intel Q9550 processor (Core2 Quad), 4GB RAM, NVidia GTX280). Both computers are running WinXP64 and Ubuntu 9.04 64bit and I bought them both so I can do some video editing directly in AVCHD format (and some gaming of course). I can however not view the files on the 2 workstations with an ATI X800 card. In other words, you need performant hardware. You can of course reduce the quality of the movies by converting them to divx or avi but that also requires a decent workhorse if you don't want to spend ages waiting for the result.
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You need a decent PC (Core Duo, 2GHz) with a good graphics card, I would say ATI3850 minimum.
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Trollslayer wrote:
You need a decent PC (Core Duo, 2GHz) with a good graphics card, I would say ATI3850 minimum.
That sounds like overkill to me. I do a lot of amateur travel and wildlife videos, and although it's a little bit underpowered (and overdue for an upgrade) my old single core machine, with 2Gb of RAM and an old Nvidia 6500 can edit and play videos no problem. I suspect the main problem is the video card - the OP hasn't got one, presumably using the motherboard's built-in one, which can be a real bottleneck. Even a cheap (£50 - £60) card will make a huge difference to video and graphics performance.
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There was no included software that can convert to a more "natural" format ? As someone else's wrote, if VLC cannot play it, no one can.
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Maximilien wrote:
There was no included software that can convert to a more "natural" format ?
Even if the included SW could, (and it can't, since it requires the files to be played to be converted :confused:, so I don't trust that at all -> smells like play frames and capture them as AVI in a separate thread at the same time) I don't want a "natural" format (otherwise I would have bought a camcorder saving in AVI). But it could be a workaround until I get a more decent machine.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb -
Yes, I guess so. Sounds trivial, but can it also depends on the player/codec ? After trying some of them, I found out VLC is the best option. The software that comes with the camcorder is pure crap, as are all software coming with hardware. WMP simply just won't display .mts files, whatever codecs are installed on my machine.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb -
VLC is pretty good and has a nice UI. If you are really after performance the MPlayer but not so friendly.
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Has it gotten support for playing dragged files and creating a playlist by dragging multiple files into it since the last time I used
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Trollslayer wrote:
You need a decent PC (Core Duo, 2GHz) with a good graphics card, I would say ATI3850 minimum.
That sounds like overkill to me. I do a lot of amateur travel and wildlife videos, and although it's a little bit underpowered (and overdue for an upgrade) my old single core machine, with 2Gb of RAM and an old Nvidia 6500 can edit and play videos no problem. I suspect the main problem is the video card - the OP hasn't got one, presumably using the motherboard's built-in one, which can be a real bottleneck. Even a cheap (£50 - £60) card will make a huge difference to video and graphics performance.
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