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Sentinel
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Playing .mts files with VLC problems

I have a video camera that records directly to an SD card. It's capable of recording in .mp4 or AVCHD. Files recorded in .mp4 are fine. It records with no problems. All I have to do is copy them over to my PC and run them and they play fine.

But anything I record in AVCHD mode results in .mts files that just won't play in VLC. I can hear the audio fine but the picture remains frozen.

Anyone have any ideas?
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From Google.
Most common reason: Have older version of VLC- Update version.
Another common issue. "Possibly your computer is to slow to playback HD streams without GPU hardware support?"

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VLC's Playback Formats:

»www.videolan.org/vlc/fea ··· at=video
»www.videolan.org/vlc/fea ··· at=input
»www.videolan.org/vlc/fea ··· at=audio
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So ... what's your point? Please forgive my ignorance but I'm not getting any answer from the links you posted? Should I be seeing something that answers my question? I guess I'm a little slow and I need a bit more of a shove then.

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Sorry......I just posted the pages that showed the formats that VLC played because in your original post you said you couldn't play .mts files.

I should have been clearer...

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Unless I'm mistaken, mts files are part of the (HD) Blu-Ray format.

And I'm finding mixed information about VLC supporting Blu-Ray.
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Wow, I never even thought of that because I click on them and they start to open so I assumed that VLC played .mts files. I never even thought that perhaps that was a format that it doesn't even support.

Thanks for that.

So it seems that the laptop that I am attempting to play them on does not have a blu-ray disc drive. Should that matter? Does that mean that perhaps this PC does not support the HD/blu-ray standard or something and this is what is causing the issue?

Screen res is 1440x900 on this PC.

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said by Sentinel:

Wow, I never even thought of that because I click on them and they start to open so I assumed that VLC played .mts files.

It looks like it doesn't. I started looking for a codec that will play that type of file in VLC, but ran into mixed results. I would guess that there is one out there though.

Sorry, I'm not sure enough to answer the Blu-ray question.
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Weird, because I tried playing it on another PC and it kind of plays it but it starts and stops and jitters but it looks like it's trying to play it. So it kind of gives the impression that it recognizes the file, but just can't successfully play it.

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MTS stands for Mpeg Transport Stream, and mpeg is supported by VLC. However, as it was already noted, depending on fps and resolution, it may require quite a bit CPU/GPU horespower to play them.

A simply way to verify it is to open up Task Manager, and take a look at CPU Usage in the Performance tab. A constant 100% or near 100% usage is usually indicative of an underpowered CPU.

According to my experience, h264 encoded HD content usually require at least a dual core Pentium, though I'd recommend a core 2 quad or better.
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Hmm. Could it then be that it is just not powerful enough?

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A dual core 2ghz cpu is the minimum hardware requirement for HD (ie; 720 & 1080P) files. How well they play, will depend on the file specs and the actual media player/codecs used.

Having said that, you still need a media player with the proper codecs to actually play the files.

The PC they won't play on is likely a media player/codec issue.

The PC they aren't playing smoothly on could be the cpu speed, media player/codecs, or any number of other factors. Such as RAM, other programs running using resources, etc.

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Did you check CPU usage? I think that PC should be powerful enough to play most any h264 video, but it's hard to be 100% certain without actually trying it, and checking CPU usage.

My Panasonic GF-1 can also creates .mts files, and I could play those with VLC, although mostly due to the abundance of various compression artifacts, I switched it to mpeg4 which is slightly better quality in my case.

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Copy them off the SD card first and then try to play them. What you're describing sounds like VLC is not able to read the file fast enough, perhaps your SD card is not very speedy.
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Sorry if I did not mention that but yeah, I do copy them off the card first. I am trying to play them directly from the HD.
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Re: Playing .mts files with VLC problems

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Just out of curiosity, can Windows Media Player play them?
Mine is set to play them through Windows Media Player on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
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Try this:
Open VLC - Tools -Preferences - Input & Codecs.
On right side find Skip H.264 in-loop deblocking filter.
Set it in drop menu to ALL (instead None).
Click on Save.
I had the same problem before.
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Dustyn,
I don't know because I don't have it installed on my PC so I never tried. I guess I should have installed it and tried. Thanks for the idea.

oldnavy,
I will try this too. Thank you.

edit added:
I can't find that setting under input/codecs.
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I have newest VLC version 2.06. This setting is there. Check if you have SIMPLE checked on the bottom of Preference ( Not All!).
"Skip H.264 in-loop deblocking filter" is located in "Input & Codecs" on right side under "Codecs" third line from a top.
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Oh, DUH. Sorry. I have to change it to simple vs full advanced settings. Oh ok.
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Before changing anything I just installed the new version of VLC with all default settings and it seems to work fine now. So it would seem problem solved.
Thank you all.
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Your welcome. Seems the first solution was the right one.
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Re: Playing .mts files with VLC problems

Yeah, but the version that I had when I made the first post was the latest version when I made that post.