Production plays fine in Cyberlink, choppy or jittery in W Media Player

jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

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Dec 14, 2013 20:49

I'm a bit confused about playback.

Being in the middle of my massive 'save the 1960s home movies' project, I don't want to produce a hundred hours of movie for it not to be watchable on Windows Media Player, as that is sort of the basic media player for most of the family.

When I produce, I make two copies, one is an Mpeg 2 DVD copy, and the other is H264 AVC copy. as the original clips are from my video camera at 50i, and around 15.5 mbps I'm choosing the 25i 16mbps option when producing in AVCHD.

The results are great, but when I check playback, the Mpeg 2 production plays perfectly in windows media player, but the avchd copy is choppy and jittery.
This playback problem does not occur when played back through Cyberlink Powerdirector, nor does it happen through Power DVD.
I am not able to use svrt in many of these productions as there are enhancements (such as a mask to tidy up edges of the Std 8 movie) throughout the entire thing. However, I uncheck video preview always, and have hardware accelaration still on.

Does anyone have any insights into why WMP seems to play back my AVCHD productions jittery. A little confused, it doesn't happen all the time, I wonder what I might have checked or unchecked or done to make a few jittery on WMP and others not, and why the Mpeg 2 ones are fine, where the AVCHD ones are sometimes not.

I would like to have all of my productions available to watch on WMP, its so much easier. Jenny

BarryTheCrab

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Dec 14, 2013 21:16

Perhaps a WMV profile would be better suited to WMP. It's a solid choice with a good number of profiles. You can make your own, too, but it's much more difficult than the other formats. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

Dec 15, 2013 05:31

Barry, thanks. But I've never had problems with WMP before, just only with some cyberlink productions.
I always play all my avchd home movies and 50p on WMP, and also have played many of my cyberlink productions with no issues, but just sometimes, as is the case just now, I have a production that won't play smoothly. I'd love to know why. Jenny

CadillacKyle85

Newbie Joined: Oct 30, 2013 22:33 Messages: 4 Offline

Dec 15, 2013 09:01

Hi, I was having the same problem with mine and after I was searching the internet for an answer, I found that wmp uses a lot of things on your computer, so when you try to play an HD large file video, its tough for it to handle. Download VLC media Player. That's what I use now. Much more stable. No more sluggish video. Let me know if that works for you!

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Dec 15, 2013 12:46

You might check the Hardware acceleration setting in Windows Medial Player.

To get to the Option, Start WMP Click Organize > Options.


Filename	Windows Media Play hardware acceleration.PNG	Download
Description	HA in Windows Media Player
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Downloaded:	259 time(s)

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