Recenty got GIT2 Pro and went for test ride on mountian bike the other day taking videos at various points using a range of different res, fps, angles etc. Back home I uploaded then to PC to check out their differences. What I thought would be a simple process turned out to be frustrating to get to work.
First off I tried the VLC player. This is my usual media player and never had any problems with it. The GIT2 videos all looked awful - breakup, jerky, too slow. Updated VLC to latest - still the same.
Tried some other freeware players - same result. Began to wonder if mp4 files were bad so re-charged cam and looked at footage on builtin lcd. All played smoothly so pointed to problem with my PC/software. Admittedly the PC I was testing on was an old XP Pro P4 2.6Ghz but it had plenty of ram and reasonable ATI Radeon graphics card plus it never had problems playing videos before.
Some web research suggested the problem was almsot certainly to do with codecs. After some web research and more experimenting and testing I found a working setup using K-LIte Codec with Media Player Classic.
I am not clear why this combination works while all others I tried failed but anyway I offer it up as a solution if anyone else has same problem. Just be aware that messing with codecs can I am told have bad results with Windows systems.
On a side note I see when files are reviewed in cam it shows the res/fps used for recording. I assume comes from some header/meta code at start of mp4 file. Are there any recommeded windows utils that display this header data? (once transferred to PC they all just look like same mp4 files in file browsers)
Thanks
First off I tried the VLC player. This is my usual media player and never had any problems with it. The GIT2 videos all looked awful - breakup, jerky, too slow. Updated VLC to latest - still the same.
Tried some other freeware players - same result. Began to wonder if mp4 files were bad so re-charged cam and looked at footage on builtin lcd. All played smoothly so pointed to problem with my PC/software. Admittedly the PC I was testing on was an old XP Pro P4 2.6Ghz but it had plenty of ram and reasonable ATI Radeon graphics card plus it never had problems playing videos before.
Some web research suggested the problem was almsot certainly to do with codecs. After some web research and more experimenting and testing I found a working setup using K-LIte Codec with Media Player Classic.
I am not clear why this combination works while all others I tried failed but anyway I offer it up as a solution if anyone else has same problem. Just be aware that messing with codecs can I am told have bad results with Windows systems.
On a side note I see when files are reviewed in cam it shows the res/fps used for recording. I assume comes from some header/meta code at start of mp4 file. Are there any recommeded windows utils that display this header data? (once transferred to PC they all just look like same mp4 files in file browsers)
Thanks