video doesn't play smooth

[JPARK]

hi all

I got lots of video clips from creek meet last weekend
I got clips from fourdown and bec
and they are mp4 files

ones that i took are playing fine on my computer. they are mpg files

mp4 files from fourdown (form gopro) are very big files. high quality
all of them don't play smooth on my computer
i dont know what's wrong.
sounds cracks. video also stops and plays and all.
not smooth.
is there anyway i can fix this? so that i can watch all these video clips without a problem?

[Paul]

Jeaho, what are you using to playback the files?

[JPARK]

Jeaho, what are you using to playback the files?

gomplayer, windows media player, and i have adobe premiere.
all of them doesn't play them smooth...

[JPARK]

gomplayer, windows media player, and i have adobe premiere.
all of them doesn't play them smooth...

i also tried ivod or something that greco suggested on another thread.. didn't work.
also tried kmplayer
didn't work

[Paul]

Do this:

Start -> Run (or Start Search if you have Vista or later)

Type in:
dxdiag (Press Enter)

Press Save Information - It's going to create a Text File. Open that text file and then copy and paste the content into here.

[bec2745]

having same problem jpark

[Paul]

What codecs are you guys using? You may want to try installing Haali Media Splitter. That with VLC Player usually gives me pretty good luck.

Haali:
http://haali.su/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe

VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

[JPARK]

i ve got more after this but do you need them?

[Paul]

Jeaho, you're trying to view an HD movie on a Netbook. I don't think you're going to have any luck with this.

Try the Haali Splitter... it *might* help, but Netbooks really aren't meant to be used for this type of playback.

[JPARK]

icic
time to shop for desktop... lol
thanks paul

[bec2745]

i have decent hp laptop and it still is pretty bad will try those downloads tomorrow and see

[Dave Bloom]

Don't worry. I got everything going smooth, finished the edit last night, and will have it on Youtube later today. I used Corel to do my edit. The HD files from the GoPro are .mp4 files and need to be converted to .mov files. The same goes with the files from your Sony camera Jeaho.

[Greco]

Don't worry. I got everything going smooth, finished the edit last night, and will have it on Youtube later today. I used Corel to do my edit. The HD files from the GoPro are .mp4 files and need to be converted to .mov files. The same goes with the files from your Sony camera Jeaho.

i had luck just changing the extensions from mp4 to mov and my editing program opened them up no problem, didn't have to convert.

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[Dave Bloom]

Greco, what program do you use? I was using Vegas before my registration ran out and that opens them fine. I now am using Corel and it didn't read the mp4s. Mark gave me a link to download a free converter, because he ran into the same problem, and everything is smooth. I am currently uploading it onto Youtube.

[Greco]

Greco, what program do you use? I was using Vegas before my registration ran out and that opens them fine. I now am using Corel and it didn't read the mp4s. Mark gave me a link to download a free converter, because he ran into the same problem, and everything is smooth. I am currently uploading it onto Youtube.


I'm using Corel too, VideoStudio. All i did was change the .mp4 to .mov in windows explorer and VideoStudio immediately recognized the file and allowed me to work with it.

[Dave Bloom]

I'll have to do that next time and save myself a few hours, haha.

[Dave Bloom]

And youtube kiiiiiilled the quality. What format is best to upload on there. Crystal clear on my computer went to crap on youtube. Bummer!

[Greco]

And youtube kiiiiiilled the quality. What format is best to upload on there. Crystal clear on my computer went to crap on youtube. Bummer!


from http://www.squidoo.com/youtubehd -

For the highest quality, YouTube now recommends these setting for your video:

* H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format
* 1280x720 resolution
* 44.1KHz Stereo MP3 or AAC audio
* Frame rate as the original video
* Up to 1GB file size and 10 min. duration




from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330990,00.asp -

To entice YouTube into rendering your video at the higher quality, you have to upload video at a resolution of 480-by-360 or higher. While maintaining the 10-minute duration limit for most uploaded videos, YouTube has increased the maximum allowable file size from 100MB to 1GB, so it's pretty easy to upload the higher-resolution video without blowing the file size limit.

If you're savvy with video-encoding controls, you should encode at 480-by-360 at 30 fps using the H.264 codec if available, or Windows Media or MPEG-4 if it's not. To remain under the 1GB limit for a 10-minute file, you can encode at up to about 13 Mbps. But at the 480-by-320 resolution, you can safely encode at about 6 Mbps, still produce excellent quality, and cut your upload time in half. Oh, and produce your mono audio at the higher-quality 96-Kbps setting.

If you're uncomfortable setting your own parameters, see if your editing tool has an iPod preset that produces 640-by-480 resolution, like the iPod preset from Premiere Elements 7.0, shown in Figure 2. Though the default data rate of 1 Mbps was probably fine, I went in and manually boosted it to 6 Mbps for maximum quality.

High-Quality YouTube Figure 2 Figure 2. If you're uncomfortable setting your own encoding parameters, find a 640-by-480 iPod preset and use that, bumping up the data rate to a max of about 6 Mbps.

Obviously, if the iPod preset encodes at 320-by-240, as most do, it won't trigger the high quality encode on YouTube, which raises another point: Most editing programs that offer one-button upload to YouTube upload a 320-by-240 resolution file encoded at standard quality. If you want to access the new high quality, you'll probably have to encode and upload by hand.

To view the high-quality videos, you can of course click the Watch in high quality link that appears underneath the video window. Or you can customize your playback parameters in YouTube to display the high-quality stream, whenever one is available, by clicking the Video Playback Quality option on your Account page, which displays the screen shown in Figure 3.

[Dave Bloom]

I got it all set. Haha, when I first uploaded it, I didn't see the button to change the resolution. Woops!

[JPARK]

I got it all set. Haha, when I first uploaded it, I didn't see the button to change the resolution. Woops!

is there anyway i can download video clips from youtube?
like the ones fourdown posted?

and also from facebook?
the one mark posted.

i want to keep them on my computer

btw great job Dave Bloom!

[Greco]

if you use firefox this is a great addon that allows you to download youtube and other videos: http://www.downloadhelper.net/install.php

[JPARK]

if you use firefox this is a great addon that allows you to download youtube and other videos: http://www.downloadhelper.net/install.php

works great (except HD quality is not damaged.)
thanks