Dash cam playback pausing

casio4

feel free to move this if it's on the wrong place, my hubby bought a next base in car camera with a 32g micro sd card that was recommended to come with it, everything is working fine but when I plug the camera into the computer to playback the videos on VLC media player which is also recommended, the videos are playing for 4 seconds then pausing for 4 or 5 seconds it's very annoying and the sound is out of sync when it does come back on, i'm sure it's something simple in vlc settings or something but if anyone could please help it's driving me mad

CiniO

Try copying the files from your camera to local disk on your computer and then playing it.
Tell us if it helps.

Pov06

VLC has really poor hardware decoding compatibility from my experience so it uses the processor to decode video instead of the graphics card.

Try play it with Windows Media Player (if it supports that format). I generally use the K-Lite codec pack and Media Player Classic so that it takes use of the graphics card and doesn't stutter.

biko

Probably buffering.
As said, first copy everything to a folder on your PC then play.

Pov06

I doubt it's buffering. Dashcams require class 6 SD cards or faster. There won't be a problem of playing 1080p video from a class 6 card.

ironclaw

Pov06 wrote: »

I doubt it's buffering. Dashcams require class 6 SD cards or faster. There won't be a problem of playing 1080p video from a class 6 card.

Assuming the OP has such a card, which isn't all that common, and their PC is up to scratch for reading the card at that speed (USB3 etc)

Either way, you shouldn't read directly from your only copy if you have any reason to believe the footage may become needed. Any corruption on the read and your are snookered. Clone the card first.

casio4

I'd say pc not up to scratch for reading the card, i'm not up to scratch myself as I mistakenly formated the card which deleted everything:o anyway I will record again today and save file to the computer then watch it, thanks for the replies I will check in later when I have saved and watched a file or two

CiniO

Pov06 wrote: »

I doubt it's buffering. Dashcams require class 6 SD cards or faster. There won't be a problem of playing 1080p video from a class 6 card.

See but it might not be a problem with a card, but with connection.
From what I understand OP is connecting a camera to PC through USB, so camera is acting here like USB card reader. And it actually might be very slow USB card reader - to slow to playback the video.

Also have in mind, that most cheaper dashcams use very poor compression codecs (to save on cpu power), which makes dashcam recordings huge.
I'm fairly sure any PC built over last 10 year should have no problem playing dashcam recordings and would have plenty cpu power for it.
Streaming data from sd card though might be the problem most likely.

CiniO

ironclaw wrote: »

Assuming the OP has such a card, which isn't all that common,

That could be another reason - if card is too slow, then maybe it's recorded like that because card is not able to save files quickly enough when camera is recording.

and their PC is up to scratch for reading the card at that speed (USB3 etc)

Oh come on - USB2 is perfectly capable of handling dashcam recordings.
USB 2.0 is capable of 53MB/s. And while this is in theory, but transfers of 30MB/s are perfectly achivable in most cases - that's way more than enough for dashcam recordings to stream live.
It's not USB port type which is the problem here.

casio4

plugged the camera into the pc today and most of the videos are playing fine one or two stopping but I saved them to computer and watched them, thanks everyone for all your help;)