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Lidders,
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.
lidders,
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.
ArdeX and rendler, welcome to the forum.
Have a look around the forum this has come up a few times I seem to recall. On my N220 the drivers 8.14.10.2108 work brightness wise. (I know ArdeX apparently not in your case – have you tried a backup (just in case) and then removal of them, then reinstall them?). Have you got an option in Device Manager to ‘roll the display drivers back’? (This assumes you have installed a non-working set over a working set).
But I seem to recall you need something else (not 100% sure though) like Easy Display Manager (I think). Do a forum search to double check.
All I can say on my netbook, the ‘2108’ drivers work with brightness control.
lopster, welcome to the forum.
have you ‘done anything’ (like reinstalled the OS) to the PC?, or did you try the failsafe trial?
Have a read of this post esp #12 and #13
Hope it helps, if not post back.
procatjohn, welcome to the forum.
I don’t think the C and D division will cause any problems as long as both are reasonably sized and have free space. My HD is split in 2 approximately.
The tech details for skype 4.2 are:
System requirements
PC running Windows® 2000, XP, Vista or 7, both 32- and 64-bit operating systems. (Windows 2000 users require DirectX 9.0 for video calls).
Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
Speakers and microphone – built-in or separate.
For voice and video calls we recommend a computer with at least a 1GHz processor, 256 MB RAM and of course a webcam.
For High Definition (HD) video calls both you and the person you’re talking to need Skype 4.2 for Windows or higher, plus HD webcams. You’ll also need a high-speed broadband connection (we recommend sustained 1 Mbps symmetrical bandwidth or higher) and a PC with at least a 1.8 GHz processor.Technical details
Version 4.2.0.187 File size 18 MB. Official release. Release date: September 6, 2010. File name: SkypeSetup.exeH.264 Codec is Copyright © 2008, SPIRIT
Does you skype actually work and just report an error, or not work at all?
My N220 reports as 2.3 index. Yours is a little low, but to be honest I doubt it makes much (if any) practical difference.There are a few posts mentioning similar to your problem, Do a search in the forum for ‘skype’ & ‘slow’ (or similar) and have a read of these. If your Skype actually works, I’d be tempted to ignore the warning.
Not sure if that helps or not.
Dempsey,
(Guessing) – I would have thought an NB30 shouldn’t be noticeably slower than an NC10. Have you got anything gobbling up system resources? Have a look in ‘Task Manager’ for anything using loads of memory or loads of CPU especially. click the show all processes from all users.
killer,
I had another search and dug this up:
http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/10274-Empire-Earth-Gold-Edition
what screen res have you tried running with? Also, maybe the HT bit as well?
on my N220 W7(starter) its:
menu button – control panel – device manager – display adapter – right-click Intel GMA – properties – Driver tab. 3rd button down is ‘roll back the driver’If its gray then you need to be admin or at the ‘properties’ stage above, click change settings (on the general tab) and enter your admin password. If after that its still gray then I think it means there isn’t a driver to roll-back to.
You then have to consider a restore point to a date before the faulty driver was installed (but you may lose other stuff if its a while back), or try to locate a working driver and install it. I’m using 8.14.10.2108 on mine as well.
You may find a driver(s) somewhere on this site (get the correct page for your model) – http://www.samsung.com/download/Model_Select.aspx?type=Computer&typecode=11&subtype=Notebook&subtypecode=1102&model=NP-NC10&filetype=SW&language=
Hope thats the info you were after.
killer,
you may be better off asking at a EE forum like – http://ee.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/index.cgi (well I think thats your game).
There is a post in EE General entitled ‘[IMPORTANT]0x211119d6 error’ but its not too clear. Talks about registry keys.
Have you tried all the various OS compatibility modes, do they help?
It may be a limitation of the graphics card, in which case this may help – http://www.sammymobile.com/forum/threads/13441-Game-doesn’t-run-Intel-graphics-problem-Use-3d-Analyze!?highlight=intel+graphics (i’ve not tried it, just read the post).
Hope it helps, but hopefully someone may ‘chip in’ with a better response.
Thanks 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.
tonytb,
Many thanks for trying, appreciated.
Thats strange then, two N220s have no sound but an NC10 does.
Unless its a W7 Starter thing possibly?
thanks for the reply.
No worries, I just thought something weird may have happened on my PC/browser.
EDIT – “but I just became a dad” Congrats, now the fun begins 🙂 (sorry I missed that bit the first time I read it 🙁 )
JeffyBoy,
I have an N220 with the different Intel CPU & GPU, but we suffered a similar brightness problem due to a duff Intel driver. Is there a different graphics card driver for your NC20 thats available to try? It may be an older one than the one you currently use.
I searched on the forum and found the three things you have found (I think) BIOS setting, Easy Display Manager and Windows Mobility center.
Maybe someone with W7 on an NC20 could post the Graphics driver version they use (assuming brightness control works OK for them).
Also, I doubt it but maybe its a 64bit thing? If the ram is limited to 2G max (as my samsung is), is it worth trying 32bit version just to see, assuming you have it to try.
Finally, with your ‘small twist’ have you had a look in the power options? The N220 has a small task bar Notification Area icon for battery/power settings, and the brightness can be controlled from there as well.
I know the NC20 and N220 are different PCs hardware wise, but I’m not sure about similarities for the basic W7 setup i.e. the power icon mentioned above.
Faults like this can be really annoying, I wish you luck.
