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September 20, 2010 at 6:49 pm #166536Fred232Member
Wasn’t sure where to ask this question but put it in applications for MP12.
Myself and a friend have N220 netbooks. Both can play AVCHD(lite) (
.MTS ) videos in W7 starter using Media Player 12, but whilst the video plays fine there is no audio. GOM and VLC play the video OK, both video and audio.
Just wondered if anyone has a Sammy (N220 or similar) that plays AVCHD(lite) videos correctly in MP12, or if this is a known problem.
Thanks
Edit – examples can be found here – http://www.avchdclips.com/ – in case anyone wants to test 😉
September 21, 2010 at 11:49 pm #216247tonytbMemberNow I have no use for WMP but I just set it up for the first time on my NC10 with Win 7 just to try a sample from avchdlips, and sorry to say this, but I had sound with mine. The mountain stream sample I D/Led is a .m2ts file.
September 22, 2010 at 8:25 am #216249Fred232Membertonytb,
Many thanks for trying, appreciated.
Thats strange then, two N220s have no sound but an NC10 does.
Unless its a W7 Starter thing possibly?
September 22, 2010 at 2:14 pm #216248tonytbMemberI was bored, waiting for an episode of Warehouse 13 to buffer, so I thought I would try for you.
There seem to be a lot of issues with all versions of WMP from what I can see. I was browsing WMP forums which I found by Googling the other day, you might find some answers ´out there´ somewhere. I am not sure if W7 Starter should be causing issues like this.
September 22, 2010 at 3:24 pm #216250Fred232MemberThanks again.
I’ve posted on an MS forum and got nowhere really. I contacted Samsung support and did less well than that 🙁
I tried here just in case anyone has had a similar problem on other similar sammy’s.I noticed its not just my set up, there were a few different cameras mentioned in the other posts (mine is a Panasonic) but I’ve seen it with Sony and Canon as well. Most of the W7 versions have been starter apparently but I’m not sure if all have.
Just don’t know really. Still it works fine in GOM or VLC so I’m not really that bothered, but if it should work in MP12 on W7 starter, I’d like to get it working – if at all possible. They play fine as well in Mp12 on my W7 Home Premium desktop.
Thanks.
October 8, 2010 at 11:13 am #216255liddersMemberI have exactly the same problem with this.I bought the N220 to take on honeymoon to specifically download photo’s and videos fron my Panasonic TZ7. I can’t get the sound to work. I don’t really understand the GOM / VLC thing. are the files easy to convert for a muppet!!
LIDDERS
October 8, 2010 at 2:07 pm #216251Fred232Memberlidders,
welcome to the forum. This is darn annoying as there are now 3 N220 users (I’m aware of) who cannot play these files in MP12 on W7 starter. Yet the many many emails and forum posts I’ve made to both MS and Samsung ‘support’ (for want of a better word) have proved useless.
I guess the fix is going to be something really daft and easy, but Samsung and MS don’t seem to know it.
The workaround is to install GOM or VLC media players and use these to play the .MTS files from the camera. They then play fine for me.
GOM – http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html (its recomended on the broadcom site, who made the HD decoder in the UK N220)
VLC – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/With VLC I had to do a minor but easy tweak to get stutter free playback:
Go to Tools > Preferences
In the lower left of the box click the checkbox �Show settings � All�
Then go to Input & Codecs > Other Codecs > FFmpeg and look for the option called �Skip the loop filter for H.264 decoding�
Change it from �none� to �all�
Restart VLCHope that helps. I haven’t bothered with converting the files as they play fine with the above players for me, and they play fine in Media Center on my ‘big’ W7 system.
Hope it helps.
PS feel free to add to this post http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7pictures/thread/090cfb52-9c54-4628-a855-6c8716548be8 (I’m George 🙂 ) as I think MS or whoever answers these posts don’t believe its a problem. Also, feel free to have a bash at Samsung support, if you get any where please let me know. I didn’t. I got to the ‘reset your BIOS and re-install windows’ stage and gave up. Mind you though, they offered nothing to try before hand just loads of pointless emails 🙁
PPS – How do you find your TZ7? I’m quite pleased with the ZX3 as long as you keep the ISO down to 400 or less (can get a bit grainy above 400) and don’t use the IZoom (10x). Apart from that I’m happy with it, esp the HD video.
October 9, 2010 at 9:00 am #216258liddersMemberThanks for the reply.
I will register and post on the other site.
I love my TZ7 not found any real problems but not printed much to a lsrge size. I have just been abroad and all aspects were perfect not one bad photo even with beer!!
I will see how I go with the software.
I am using the panasonic standard software on my other machine with vista and it works perfectly.
Lidders
October 9, 2010 at 10:05 am #216252Fred232MemberLidders,
I hope GOM or VLC will work for you as well, both are fine for me.
The interesting thing from MS is – http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-media-player-12 – which states that MP12 plays these files natively on all W7 versions. Some clash with the N220 it seems?
Oh well, I have a work around, and its not critical.
Good luck.
October 13, 2010 at 8:37 pm #216259liddersMemberI have downloaded the above progams and still I can’t get either to work for me. I have tried the tweak in VLC (a first for me!) still no good.I either get sturring video or frozen video. Would I be better upgrading to home premium to play these files. Microsoft haven’t helped. Anyone done this and played the files from the system without tweaking.
LIDDERSOctober 14, 2010 at 9:23 am #216253Fred232MemberThats a shame, worked a treat when I tried either.
One thing occurs to me, are you in the UK? Its only the UK N220s that have the Broadcom HD decoder I believe, if yours hasn’t got it maybe it cannot decode these files in HD, hence the stutter. If yours does have it, have you upgraded the drivers for that?
Look in Control Panel – Device Manager – Sound, video and Game controllers Do you have ‘Broadcom CrystalHD Video Decoder’ listed. If so select it and right-click – properties. Under the Driver tab, what driver version do you have? Mine is listed as 3.7.20.0 and dated 31/05/2010. If yours is lower/older than this, you could try updating them. See – http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/ (Its shown as 3.5.0 on the site). This should help the HD stuttering hopefully.
So, just to be sure, VLC has no sound and stutters, GOM and W MP12 have no sound, is that correct?
Have you loaded any other media players.
Do other media files (AVIs MOVs etc) play correctly in any of your loaded playersI did ask specifically if anyone would try – http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/14162-N220-call-for-help as well as in this post. Monitoring.
Upgrading to W HP is hard to say. It depends on what the problem actually is. It may help, it may not.
October 21, 2010 at 3:47 am #216260liddersMemberI am based in the UK and I have managed to update the Broadcom decoder.
I have great video playback with WMP absolutely no sound.
In VLC I have sound which is good but the video freezes and stutters.
In GOM both sound and video stutter.
In Photofun (panasonic software) the sound is very good but no video.
It is all very frustrating, at least the files are stored correctly as downloading them to my laptop they play perfectly .
LIDDERS
October 21, 2010 at 11:04 am #216254Fred232MemberSorry, not sure what to suggest then re VLC and GOM 🙁
If the VLC tweak doesn’t work, there is this post re GOM to have a look at and change the settings – http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/13416-HD-Not-Working-On-Samsung-N220 that may help.
Any news at the MS post?
Thinking caps on.
There is another player you could try if you wish. Again this plays them fine on my machine, its called Media Player Classic (home cinema) – http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
If you do load it check the following:
View – Options – external filters –
I have:
Broadcom video decoder
Microsoft AC3 encoder
MPEG 4 decoder DMOall listed (in that order) and ticked.
As I say, whilst I cannot get sound in WMP12, all the other three play the videos fine for me.
MPC may be worth a shot.When using these players, what is your CPU load? For me VLC/GOM/MPC seem to run at about 40-60% but WMP is 90-100%. Im suspecting my WMP isn’t using the broadcom decoder correctly (maybe?)
Whats the res of your video? mine are the ‘lite’ version 720p only.
June 4, 2012 at 5:05 pm #216261hirondellesMemberI had the same problem – Avchd video was fine on WMP but no audio – then I tried opening the WMP via Network / Media Devices and it works! Don’t ask me why, I have no idea!
August 9, 2012 at 6:29 pm #216262unisasquatchMemberdont know if youre interested or if youve found a solution yet, but i got one right here for you. Right click on your sound icon, go to playback devices. Right click on your primary sound output (green checkmark) and click on properties. go to the advanced tab. on default format turn your audio sample rate all the way up. I set mine to 24 bit, 192000 hz. AVCHD is aimed towards high bitrate audio so you have to set yourself up to play it.
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