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I am having difficulties getting MPEG-4 H.264 files from my new Samsung HMX-R10 camcorder to play with VLC, or any other player for that matter. I can play other MPEG-4 files just fine. The camcorder file is good quality, but stutters very often and doesn't follow audio. Here is a file of a recorded sample. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JWTR3VT6
Thanks for your help.

bumping for a solution to my problem

This video is a 1920*1080 resolution at 18.2 Mbps with 59.94 fps interlaced and using H264. All of this mixed means that you need a LOT of CPU power for decoding this video (at least a Core2Duo @ 2.8 GHz).
Not to mention that many camcorders are known to create videos with a long GOP which may lead to problems with many players.

You may want to try Media Player Classic – Home Cinema which can use DXVA (on Windows only) using the GPU power rather than the CPU one for a faster decoding.
I'm not even sure that your video is DXVA compliant but it's worth a try. Otherwise your only solution is to get a faster CPU.

I appreciate the reply. Not exactly what I wanted to here, but still appreciated. My PC isn't that old and doesn't have problems handling other CPU intensive programs. Why would Samsung make a video file that is so difficult to decode?
Thanks again for you help, I know Samsnungs reasoning isn't your issue.

Since you're saying that you have problems for playing your videos with any player you obviously have CPU not powerfull enough.

Once again a 1920*1080 resolution video at 18.2 Mbps with 59.94 fps interlaced and using H264 requires a LOT of CPU power.
18.2 Mbps is close to the Blu-ray max bitrate.

FYI check Apple's system specs recommendations for H264 aka AVC:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd ... tions.html