I'm trying to play the files from my hard drive copied from my HDR-SR1 Camcorder. Choppy Video and sound AVC-HD Playback in Windows Vista using Picture Motion, Media Player 11 and Nero Showtime. Any ideas?

I'm running a
Dell M170 XPS Notebook
2.0ghz Pentium M
2 GB of DDR2-533
Nvidia Go 7800GTX
I've got all the latest updates and latest video drivers from Dell

It plays smooth on my Windows XP desktop machine
Dual Xeon 2.67ghz
1.5gb RAM
Older ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro

I would think the notebook should play smoother since the video card on the notebook is two generation newer than the 9800 on the desktop.

I don't know anything about avchd playback but it would seem that your mobile processor just doesnt have enough umph.

I'm trying to play the files from my hard drive copied from my HDR-SR1 Camcorder. Choppy Video and sound AVC-HD Playback in Windows Vista using Picture Motion, Media Player 11 and Nero Showtime. Any ideas?

I'm running a
Dell M170 XPS Notebook
2.0ghz Pentium M
2 GB of DDR2-533
Nvidia Go 7800GTX
I've got all the latest updates and latest video drivers from Dell

It plays smooth on my Windows XP desktop machine
Dual Xeon 2.67ghz
1.5gb RAM
Older ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro

I would think the notebook should play smoother since the video card on the notebook is two generation newer than the 9800 on the desktop.


I think these highly-compressed formats require substantial CPU. Although you may have a capable video card, you still may be lacking CPU. ???

It is looking like a video card with hardware-accelerated AVCHD decoding is a must.

Does anyone think is because of Windows Vista or a software issue? I was wondering if there is a codec pack that will help? Has anyone with windows vista been able to play the files from the sony HD camcorders just fine?

I've checked task manager under performance and show's the CPU at 100% while playing the AVC-HD file. Damn Intel changed one pin location on the CPU so I can't put a Core 2 Duo CPU in my laptop :(

I've got a dual core intel 3GHz processor, a Matrox PCIle 128 video card with latest driver, 6GB of RAM, Win XP 64 bit edition, and I still get choppy video from the sample clips of the HV20 that I've downloaded.

Maybe you can try doing a clean boot. It may help free up some resources.
If you do not know how to do this. Click on Start - Run - Type in MSCONFOG and then OK then Continue.

Try going under the services and startup tabs and untick anything you think you may not need then click ok and let your system reboot. Try and run it again.

To get your system back to the waqy it was just run MSCONFIG again and click on normal on the General Tab and then reboot again.

Maybe you can try doing a clean boot. It may help free up some resources.
If you do not know how to do this. Click on Start - Run - Type in MSCONFOG and then OK then Continue.



I believe it should be MSCONFIG.

No AVCHD here and no Vista.

HDV and XP. My HTPCs are happy.

Does anyone think is because of Windows Vista or a software issue? I was wondering if there is a codec pack that will help? Has anyone with windows vista been able to play the files from the sony HD camcorders just fine?

After much trying several months ago I got AVC-HD from the panny HD camcorder on vista. I can tell you a few things:

1. You can't use Vista64 at this point so keep that in mind. If you're 32bit then continue.

I had the following setup:

Athlon 64 3200+ (2ghz)
2gigs of DDR 400
Vista32 Patched
Geforce 7650GT with the 158.24 drivers
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra (for the AVC decoding)

I then built a REG script that tells windows to recognize the .MTS extensions and process them through media player.

I used DecCheck to ensure that Cyberlink was doing the decoding and I verified it with GraphEdt to ensure the DirectX paths were correct for the AVC content.

Once done everything was great CPU usually ran at ~50% for AVCHD content.

Now, here's the FUN stuff that made me beat myelf up for several days:

I upgraded the video card to a 7950GT to get the PurevideoHD decoding on the card. When I did a clean install and installed the 158.24 drivers video was sooo jerky it played at about 1 fps with good audio.

After playing with 160.04 drivers I still had the problem :(

After pouring through release notes I decided to roll the driver back to the 97.46 that windowsupdate supplies and life was good playing back AVCHD.

HMMM, after looking it appears that the PurvideoHD support was released in somewhere the 100.x releases whereas the 97.x releases did not activate the hardware assisted HD decoding. Methinks there is a bug in the PurvideoHD decoding whereas it has a tough time with AVCHD decoding on chip. Just for grins I rolled back and forth between 97.xx nvidia drivers and about 15 newer versions and everytime I went above the 97 release AVCHD died.

Good luck. /cbh