Flip HD video

[rsquared]

Hi,

I bought a Flip Mino HD, and I'm having problems playing its video using VLC. The audio sounds fine, but the video updates only 1 frame every few seconds, and skips the frames in between. I was wondering if anyone has run across this problem, and whether there's a workaround. It plays fine using Windows Media Player. According to Flip, the video is encoded using H.264 in an MP4 container, which sounds like it should work with VLC. I also tried transcoding the file using Handbrake's x264, but that didn't help.

The reason I'd like to use VLC is to eventually stream this video over the Internet.

Thanks.

[Arite]

Does skipping the loop filter help?:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42328

Arite.

[rsquared]

Thanks, that was a step in the right direction. The video still skips (every 10 sec. or so), but it's much better than before. The strange thing is the CPU utilization is less than 50% with or without changing the loop filter, so it seems like a compatibility problem as opposed to horsepower.

[VLC_help]

VLC cannot do multicore decoding, so I assume you have dual core CPU.

[rsquared]

Yes, I have a dual-core Atom along with the Nvidia ION. Are you thinking one of the cores is at 0% and the other is close to 100%? I'll have to see how Windows Task Manager reports CPU utilization when there are multiple cores.

[VLC_help]

You could try also those DXVA builds mentioned on this forum, they should work with Nvidia ION and provide good enough playback performance.

[rsquared]

Awesome, that did the trick! My aggregate CPU usage went from 50% down to 10%, all the cores/threads look nice and quiet, and the video quality is great.