MOV from KODAK Camera play OK but not AIPTEK MOV

[Fichera]

Does anyone know why .MOV file from a Kodak digital camera plays great on VLC - but a .MOV file taken from new Aiptek GO HD camcorder, the sound plays but the picture continuosly "freezes"?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

BEcause it is too new... And we don't support this codec. Try development versions.

[Fichera]

Actually - after I posted this - I found the following posted by "j-b"and that allowed the GO HD MOV files to play almost flawlessly. j-b, thanks! and if you know the answer to my other question about best way to burn these H.264 files to a DVD (see question "Burning MOV files to DVD for Playback on HDTV posted 2/2 under General VLC Discussion Topics)

by j-b on Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:53 pm

H.264 codecs are pretty CPU intensive and VLC can't use multi-cores to decode it yet.
So if your computer is dying when decoding 1080p samples from H264, do the following.
Open the preferences
Tick advanced in the lower right corner
Go to "Input/Codec"
Go to "other codecs" subcategory
Go to "FFmpeg"
Put the "skip-filter for H264" to all
Restart VLC[/b]