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musicvid10 wrote on 11/20/2009, 7:28 AM
You said decoding, does that mean playback?
I don't know of any side-by-side decoding comparisons, there are some encoding shootouts published, however.

I suspect that x264 may be faster, only because AVCHD plays back stutter-free on VLC, but the same material chokes QT player.
ritsmer wrote on 11/20/2009, 8:26 AM
One of my cameras (SONY WX1) makes AVCHD high profile - and so far only the Quicktime free codec can open these files - for previewing and for other work on the timeline.

Thought that there might exist a more effective and faster codec than the one from Quicktime?? I have a double Xeon quad core machine and Windows 7 64 bit , which -in theory- should make high speed decoding possible...

As you say the VLC player is faster - which again means that its codec is faster - and so it would be desirable to get such a fast codec for Vegas.
musicvid10 wrote on 11/20/2009, 8:58 AM
Does VLC play files from your camera?

It plays high profile AVCHD files rendered on my computer.
reberclark wrote on 11/20/2009, 9:46 AM
This is probably a dumb question (but I'll ask anyway): if I install VLC is there a way for Vegas to utilize it for timeline AVCHD playback? Any info appreciated.
musicvid10 wrote on 11/20/2009, 9:59 AM
There is an x264vfw codec available, but it is only available to Vegas in an AVI wrapper, which is inferior to MP4 for several reasons that I won't go into here. Its main use would be to decode files from some pocket camcorders, including the Vado HD.

As far as exposing the x264 MP4 codec directly in Vegas (except for frameserving to an AVISynth gui), I have not heard of anyone doing this. Folks here like John Meyer and Nick Hope are much better versed than I am in this area.
Byron K wrote on 11/20/2009, 10:13 AM



I was wondering about this also. Can Vegas use another codec players i.e. VLC or media player to playback video for editing?
John_Cline wrote on 11/20/2009, 1:47 PM
A month or more ago there was a post here on the forum discussing an inexpensive plugin for Vegas that accelerated AVCHD decoding by using your graphics card GPU. I don't remember the name of the plugin.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/20/2009, 1:53 PM
> I don't remember the name of the plugin.

Divide.Frame ;-)

~jr
John_Cline wrote on 11/20/2009, 2:04 PM
Thanks, JR! I just did a search for the forum post and was surprised to find that I was the one that started the thread and it wasn't a month ago, it was the end of July. You'd think I would remember my own posts. Anyway, here is the link to the thread where the DivideFrame plugin is discussed:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=666796
jabloomf1230 wrote on 11/20/2009, 3:17 PM
John,

I'd be cautious about the Divide Frame AVCHD plug-in. There were still bugs in the last version (V1.06 messed up my Vegas 9.0b installation and I had to reinstall everything) and now their support forum is inactive and has been for about 6 weeks:

http://www.divideframe.com/forum/index.php

That's not a good sign. If someone was interested in their software, I would email Divide Frame first and ask them about their support forum.

The good news is that the plug-in does speed up AVCHD preview fps in Vegas.

J