60 fps messes up on WMP unless it is over 2 seconds

[bakonfreek]

So I have a few test clips I shot at 60 fps on my camcorder and I play them back using Windows Media Player and they work...after I give them time to play. I found out it takes less time for playback to work correctly if I encode at lower bitrates but I don't want to go too low (5 Mbps is the lowest I can go with HD footage). Any ideas on what might be wrong? These things even work in VLC but it's a bit weird to watch (jerks around unless it plays for a little bit). I think I have enough RAM to play back 60 fps video at a low bitrate but maybe my processor sucks (or my laptop is just a POS, I don't know).

Any ideas, fixes, or other things I can do to preview the videos without waiting for WMP or VLC to catch up?

Any help is appreciated so long as it works (and isn't a clever sarcastic post telling me to format C:\).


Thanks,

bakonfreek

[jman98]

I have seen Windows Media Player (updated to the latest and greatest release by the way) refuse to play non-encrypted WMV that VLC handled without a problem. It is for good reason that I tell people here that WMP is a POS and I seriously wonder if it is even possible to make it suck more than it does right now. If they wanted to, could Microsoft actually make it worse? Or is it as bad and useless right now as it can possibly be?

My point being, if you insist on using WMP than may God help you because you're going to need supernatural help to get it to work reliably.

RAM has almost no impact on your playback unless maybe it's far below what it should be. It's really a CPU function and you've provided no details on your PC, so perhaps your PC is underpowered for the resolution your camcorder uses.

[bakonfreek]

Probably. I tried it in WMP and VLC. VLC does better but it still glitches for the first few seconds of video. I am using a laptop with the generic pentium chipset so...probably a crap processor?