VLC Media Player Won't Play m4v files in Win 7 64-bit
Posted: 03 Apr 2013 23:58
I'm running VLC 2.0.5 and I've got a problem that's been evading solutions. Since moving to Windows 7 64-bit, I find that VLC Media Player won't play full HD video files that I rendered in Adobe Premiere/Media Encoder. It will only play m2v files in SD, but not m4V files in 1080P. Instead of playback, the player appears to begin play, window client area expands to 1920x1080, but remains black. However, the HDD light comes on and stays on. A look in Windows 7 Resource Manager, Disk tab, reveals that VLC is READING approximately 128,000,000 B/sec for the duration of the 'playback' and WRITING a smaller fraction of that bandwidth. The drives involved are the media files drive and the temp drive, which are separate physical discs. It is almost as if it is redirecting playback to the HDD, but I know of no such setting in VLC to cause that. It does this for a few minutes for a 45-minute video and then stops.
Is there a configuration that I am overlooking that may be causing HD videos to be treated as 'write to disc' instead of to screen? It's only affecting HD videos. All SD stuff plays in the player normally.
Windows Media Player will play the file, but with pauses every 1 second, not a smooth playback. VLC Media Player worked great under XP, but I'm not having any luck with it under Win 7 64-bit. The playback problems seem to be specific to VLC. I suspect a configuration setting, but I am at a loss as to where that might be. Any help would be appreciate.
EDIT: I've pretty much separated the problem videos and the okay videos into two categories: MPEG2 and h.264. Apparently VLC isn't producing any screen output when the file format is h.264.
Oddly, QuickTime 7 can't play the files either. But Windows Media Player can. This situation is exclusive to Windows 7 machines. Our Windows XP machines are not experiencing any playback problems with VLC and h.264 files.
Is there a configuration that I am overlooking that may be causing HD videos to be treated as 'write to disc' instead of to screen? It's only affecting HD videos. All SD stuff plays in the player normally.
Windows Media Player will play the file, but with pauses every 1 second, not a smooth playback. VLC Media Player worked great under XP, but I'm not having any luck with it under Win 7 64-bit. The playback problems seem to be specific to VLC. I suspect a configuration setting, but I am at a loss as to where that might be. Any help would be appreciate.
EDIT: I've pretty much separated the problem videos and the okay videos into two categories: MPEG2 and h.264. Apparently VLC isn't producing any screen output when the file format is h.264.
Oddly, QuickTime 7 can't play the files either. But Windows Media Player can. This situation is exclusive to Windows 7 machines. Our Windows XP machines are not experiencing any playback problems with VLC and h.264 files.