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Korey Kaczynski

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 36

Slow video

I have a movie that I want to play, but it runs choppily and the audio and video don't sync up; my main player is VLC but the problem exists under xine and mplayer as well.

I downloaded it from usenet and already ran par2verify with no errors found. Still, it could be corrupted, BUT it's also 8 gigs large.  I think that may have something to do with it .

Any way to play it so it runs at an optimal framerate?  I'm not really experienced with video stuff but I'm guessing I have to split the file up somehow.

Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: Slow video

If it's an avi, you might take a look at avisplit - it's powerful and simple to use from the command line.

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Korey Kaczynski

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 36

Re: Slow video

If it's an avi, you might take a look at avisplit - it's powerful and simple to use from the command line.

Ah, well, I installed mkvtoolnix (the file format was mkv) and now I'm in the process of splitting the files up.  I'll post my progress if anyone else is curious.

- Nope.  Looks like the movie might be add.  What a waste of bandwidth.

Last edited by Korey Kaczynski (2007-11-30 18:26:37)

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: Slow video

mmm it seems its a high definition 1080i/p or 720p encoded video and your pc dont have the processing power it needs to decoding the file, that's why it plays choppy, with a athlon xp 2600+ you cannot play 720p h264 encoded videos for example, but you can decode 1080i mpeg2 encoded ones...

other alternative may be open it in DeVeDe and encode it to divx or dvd to watch it, but you will loose a lot of quality

Last edited by leo2501 (2007-12-03 12:13:12)

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Korey Kaczynski

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 36

Re: Slow video

mmm it seems its a high definition 1080i/p or 720p encoded video and your pc dont have the processing power it needs to decoding the file, that's why it plays choppy, with a athlon xp 2600+ you cannot play 720p h264 encoded videos for example, but you can decode 1080i mpeg2 encoded ones...

other alternative may be open it in DeVeDe and encode it to divx or dvd to watch it, but you will loose a lot of quality

I just did a test run by converting it to an AVI, and that seemed to work.  Thanks!