Sony Vaio FW video playing problem

this morning i was playing a hd blu ray video file(not a disc) and it was working perfectly on my vlc player, later it justed didnt work.

it started to play ok but when i tried to skip to any part it completely froze and wouldnt show any picture.

any idea how to fix this?

thanks

 

anyone????

 

What's the format (file extension) of the file? Although, vlc should play almost everything (I have 1 or 2 files out of 1.5 TB can't play on it). The first thing I will check is to see if your vlc player is the latest one, or you can try codex or some sort. There is also a possibility that it's the file itself.

 

Do you have the integrated Intel graphics or the Radeon? HD vids sucked up a ton of resources on my FW (with radeon) until i opened them in Cyberlink PowerDVD with hardware acceleration enabled. Maybe try that?

 

i used vlc player to play the movie yesterday morning, it played and i could skip to any point of the film.

but now it turns on but wont skip to any point, it just freezes when i try.

i think its a mkv file, i tried another mkv file now and it dose the same, i dont see why its just stopped working

 

If that's the case, I will re-install the player first. Also, did you change the location of your movie file? It sounded like you have a memory problem. Sometimes reboot will help.

 

I don't use vlc player because it's so unstable and I have encountered problems like these also. I use Media Player Classic with the Combined Community Codec Pack to play anything that's out there, including HD .mkv files.

By the way, how do HD .mkv files play? Smooth playback, no lag? The ATI HD3470 can handle it?

 

i downloaded it again, reinstalled vlc player and got the lastest drivers for my GPU, i dont know what else to do .

it was perfect in the morning, no lag, smooth and i could skip whenever i wanted so i guess the hd3470 can handle it, or they wouldnt have put it in a laptop which is basically a blu ray range for playing HD.

 

Try Media Player Classic. It's light and you don't have to install it. It's just an executable.

Also, HD .mkv files are more resource demanding than HD Blu-Ray movies. Blu-Ray movies are uncompressed and don't require a lot of power. However, HD .mkv files are heavily compressed (to save up space of course) and require more vRAM.

 

The problem with skipping in my limited experience has nothing to do with the video card most of the time. It usually has something to do with the audio synth. I don't play my mkv file with vlc player that much because I use codex on WM. Did you change the resolution on your screen or power setting? Sorry, I am out of idea now, and not able to help.

 

I think you need the 3470 in order to play blu ray, at least I cannot add a blu ray drive in cTO unless I have the ati card as well.

 

its just weird that it worked perfected, i didnt change anything and it stopped working

 

use media player classic, much better for mkv playback.

 

hd .mkv plays very well on media player classic, i know this since i watch a bunch of my anime in hd .mkv. Sony specifically picked the 3470 because it can play most all of the encodes and supports lastest versions of divx while being outrageous cheap.