1080 60i playback problems on Mac!!

[diablonet]

Hello, I own Sanyo XACTI HD2000, MP4/H264 based, I record videos using 1080 60i.

Playback video on a Mac using bootcamp (iMac 27" late 2009, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, Core i5 Quad, 8GB RAM), using Windows Media Player, Cyberlink PowerDVD and Splash Lite, work perfectly, deinterleaced and smooth 60 fields per second!!!

Playback video on the same Mac, 10.6.7, I have the following troubles:

Using the original file:
-Quicktime, not smooth 60i and interleaced video.
-VLC, deinterleace is OK, playback like 30fps.
-MPlayer, deinterleace is OK, playback like 30fps.

Playback of the converted (deinterleaced file): Works perfectly an all programs!

I have tried many other players without luck!! Do you have any suggestion of a video player or settings who can do a smooth playback??? I don't want to convert all my videos, if Windows can, Mac should!

Sample files:
Original: http://realdelvallemazatlan.com/videosamples/original.mp4
Converted (deinterleaced) file using Elgato Turbo 264 HD: http://realdelvallemazatlan.com/videosamples/converted.mp4


Thank you in advice!

[diablonet]

Well it seems we have not the player yet, thank you anyways guys

[poisondeathray]

did you select the "bob" option or "yadif 2x" in vlc 's deinterlace option ? this will play back at 60fps instead of 30fps

[diablonet]

You are the man!!! it worked fine with my Panasonic TM700 interleaced videos, but choppy on the Sanyo HD2000 files, doesnt matter, I no longer use the Sanyo since I have the new Panasonic thank you very much!

[poisondeathray]

You are the man!!! it worked fine with my Panasonic TM700 interleaced videos, but choppy on the Sanyo HD2000 files, doesnt matter, I no longer use the Sanyo since I have the new Panasonic thank you very much!

why don't you shoot 1080p60 ? higher bitrate (28Mb/s), better quality, no interlace issues

[diablonet]

Yes, I do that recently, buy I have lots of videos recorded on 1080i, thats why I asked

[diablonet]

Worked also on MplayerX with the following settings:

Image enhacement: None
Deinterleace method: None
Advanced-> Extra options, add the following line: -vf yadif=1
(hit enter then quit and reopen mplayerx)

TM700 1080i = OK
HD2000 1080i = Choppy

[poisondeathray]

There might be an issue with interlaced AVC and mp4 container for the HD2000 1080i files (it also shoots 1080p60....)

Try rewrapping into transport stream (.m2ts, .mts, .ts) e.g. use tsmuxer or ffmpeg

[diablonet]

Rewrapped to m2ts, ts, same results, choppy, want me to upload a hd2000 1080i video sample?

[poisondeathray]

I don't have a mac

Maybe someone else can test it

[diablonet]

Dont worry, you have helped me a lot!, anyways I no longer have the HD2000, so I dont care that much

[jman98]

I do not know if this is the problem here, but I thought I would mention it. On older iMacs (older than yours) running Leopard there was a "feature" (it's really a bug but Apple refused to recognize it as such at the time) where the OS resized EVERYTHING that was 1080 video. The actual screen dimensions are somewhat larger than 1920x1080 so any time you tried to play 1080 video using anything at all (VLC, native Mac stuff like Quicktime, etc.) it would resize it to the actual screen size. It did not do this with 720 video or any other video sizes, but it could not be stopped from doing it with 1080 video. On the older iMacs that was a complete fail because the CPUs weren't powerful enough and the video simply looked like choppy crap every time. My iMac can't even play MPEG-2 video at 1080 because of this resizing "feature". There is no way under Leopard that I know of to stop this from happening. I did some research at the time and there were complaints about it, but Apple had a very Microsoft-kie "Too bad, so sad. Not a bug but a feature. Not gonna fix it either." attitude.

My iMac is not my principal computer and I do not use it for 1080 video watching. I do not know if Apple ever fixed this problem in Snow Leopard or not. But your problem does sound suspiciously like this. However, I would have thought that a Core i5 Quad processor might be able to handle that kind of resizing if it was still doing it. Maybe your problem is something else, but I thought I would mention it.

[diablonet]

Hello, thank you for your help, I think at this case my iMac can handle 1080 60p/60i without problem at 28mbps (tm700 videos), but choppy on 1080 60i at around 18bmps (hd2000 videos), it makes no sense, the problem I think is the de-interlace process,