Will not properly play 1080/p60 .m2ts files
Posted this in the forum a few days back:
A few weeks back I purchased the newly delivered Panasonic TM700 camera. This camera has not only four AVCHD (1920x1080) modes (HE/5 Mbps, HX/8 Mbps, HG/13Mbps, and HA (17Mbps) but it also shoots at 1080/60p at 28 Mbps. It uses MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression. I have been very pleased with the quality of the video files - especially the ones shot at 1080/60p which are pretty awesome. All the files have .m2ts extensions.
Now here is the scoop, the camera comes with Panasonics own software (HD Writer AE 2.1) which will play all the videos on my machine perfectly - even the 1080/60p. Absolutely no jerkiness. So I know it can be done by software on this machine. This machine is a Dell XPS 420 (2 yrs old) Vista / 32 SP2 machine using quad processors running at 2.66 GHz. My video card is an ATI Radeon 2400.
I can not get the video to work in this new version - at least not with the combination of settings I have tried so far. Either it jerks consistently like the current production version 1.0.5, or it shows a picture as a still, or the whole screen turns green.
(I also tried playing these video files on my laptop - Dell XPS M1330 using duo 2.6 processors, Vista 32/SP3 and a different video chip based on NVIDIA -- same exact result)
I am happy to do whatever testing you think will be needed (I can even send you some small test files). I would like to see VLC work with these video files.
Joel