Comments on: 5D MkII Video playback with VLC

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:13:41 +0000

@teppo – Are you sure you did this step?:

In the lower left of the box click the checkbox “Show settings – All”

By: teppo

teppo — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:58:50 +0000

I tried to follow your steps, btu when i got to Input and Codecs, there was no other codecs section? Hmm. anyone help me here?

By: sebh

sebh — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:59:46 +0000

Thanx. Great help!!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:53:07 +0000

Matt – VLC is a video playback tool only. The quality loss (which is fairly limited and generally much preferable to the stuttering it gets rid of) from the settings suggested in the orginal post only affects playback of the file in VLC (and on your machine). The original file is untouched.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:48:23 +0000

When people refer to some reduction of quality during playback, will that have any effect whatsoever when I ultimately render and publish my movie?

Thanks,

Matt

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:56:28 +0000

Can’t say for sure but a 1.5Ghz single-core processor probably is too weak for 5DMkII playback. RAM isn’t that important, from what I understand.
If you really want to try and get such files playing on old hardware, you might try CoreAVC codec used with Media Player Classic (they have a trial version you can use to test). I haven’t used it but some people report it useful on old hardware:

http://www.coreavc.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:23:13 +0000

Ben,
I changed the preferences, but my Dell is 4 years old. I plays the 5D video in short bursts, with decoding mosaic artefacs. Do you think I just need a new computer? 1.5 GHz and 2 GB RAM.
Gary

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By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:14:23 +0000

Hi Alejandro… Can’t say I have tried that, but cannot see why it would not work, so long as it was saved back in exactly the same format. I assumed you checked that the file extension and container format (.mov or .avi) was the same as the original? Can’t really help further except to say maybe someone on one of these forums may know:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-eos-5d-mk-ii-hd/
http://www.cinema5d.com/index.php

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:09:54 +0000

Ben, thanks for the tip about using VLC for playback. It works very well.
I have a question for you. Do you know if there is a way to copy an edited video back to the CF card and have the 5DMII play it back. I have tried, after saving the final footage as H.264 format, but the camera says it cannot playback the file. I would be cool to take a final edit and play it back on anyone’s HD TV using the camera.

Thanks for your thoughts.