Sorry, but you guys are way over my head here and I don't follow all this conversion stuff. I just want to get some decent video without a lot of "editing" or color correcting. So far, I am not so happy.
I made a short video in 4k @ 60fps MP4 H.265 with auto settings through a neutral density circular polarizing filter and the results are less than stellar. Played back using Windows Media Player, the images seemed washed out and slightly jerky as I tried to yaw 360° as smoothly as I could just to see the effect of the polarizing filter looking from west to east. When I looked at the clip with VLC player, I found the color to be much better (imho) but overall darker. I think that optimal would be some where in between what these two players showed. However, VLC seemed to be unable to properly decode the video, producing a gray screen with artifacts punctuated by occasional two to five second intervals of actual footage!!!
I do not know where the problem lies much less what needs correcting. The jerkiness of the WMP might be caused by inadequate hardware but, I doubt it. I am running Win 10 Pro on a Dell XPS-8500 with an Intel(R) Core ¡7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 12.0 GB RAM.
I captured screen shots comparing the images from each player looking east and west at the same time intervals. (often the captures from WMP were short on scan lines so many tries were needed to get the full frame)
What am I doing wrong here? Am I using the wrong software? Why is VLC having such problems with video and yet the images that are there seem much better? Where do I go from here? I tried disabling hardware decoding for VLC but the behavior did not change. I read elsewhere, here I think, that H.265 was preferred for its higher compression and higher bitrate (that is why I used it) but maybe H.264 is needed for VLC? Yes, it seems to so.
I just found: "VLC Media Player is only compatible with MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4 and H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC. If your an MP4 file contains a VLC unsupported audio or video codec, it can't be recognized by VLC. So the MP4 file can not be played in VLC smoothly."
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How to Solve VLC Won't Play MP4 files?)
So now, I suppose the question is: which player should I target with the camera settings on the EVO? I can't use the preferred H.265 with VLC. I just can't get over how different the images are on there players. I cannot even guess what adjustments could possibly make the WMP video look better.
Any suggestions?
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