anyone on here good with video/pc techy stuff?

[PDT]

I have bought one of these to take on holiday: http://www.which.co.uk/news/2010/05/toshiba-camileo-bw10---a-rugged-hd-camcorder-215267

The camera works perfectly and I can save the files on my laptop as MP4 files but they wont play properly, they are extremely jerky and video playback pauses and resumes constantly. I tried viweing the videos in quicktime, realplayer, WMP, i-tunes but its all the same. The playback on the camera is perfect.

I did a bit of searching and I found similar issues with people attempting to view MP4 HD material on older laptops, is this likley to be the case? will an Ipad play HD MP4 content?

Thanks,

Dave.

[Poppa Dom]

Have you installed the Toshiba software CD to ensure that the correct codecs are installed - jerky playback is often associated with poor in built graphics capabilities of the laptop too.

[PDT]

The supplied CD only has a user manual and a rubbish uploader tool on it. Have tried installing it anyway but its no different. 

[Poppa Dom]

What is the spec of the laptop you are running on? Have you got Apple quicktime installed? Other codecs such as xvid etc...?

[PDT]

I uploaded a video to youtube and it plays fine.   Laptop spec I am not sure but its nott new, it was high spec in 2002   

needed an excuse for an i-pad anyway

[Poppa Dom]

Sounds like your graphics processor on the laptop is getting bogged down with trying to decode HD content 

[stealthwolf]

+1. You need new hardware to keep up with demands. Laptops tend to be less-capable than their desktop counterparts.