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[rusty]

I would like to first thank all of you for helping me with the decision to get a 7D. I

[HDNitehawk]

The program you are using to view the video can be a problem. If you haven

[rusty]

Should Quicktime or Windows Media Player work?

[HDNitehawk]

I use quicktime on the mac and it works fine. You can record at smaller settings to. You might try that and see if it works better for you. All else fails a faster computer might be in order. Plus if your viewing off an external drive that may slow it down. It would be fastest off your hard drive.

[Trowski]

What are the specs on your current computer? That would be helpful information, because perhaps there

[aloginame]

I think I know what is wrong with viewing those videos,but not a hundred percent sure that it is the same problem for your case but I had encounter a similar problem viewing videos that is 1080p.


When I view those videos on my laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad) with a integrated video card the Intel HD graphics and it was like what you had described the video was displaying like one frame at a time it was so slow, it was un-viewable. Then I got the video to my older desktop with a five year old graphics card (7900 GS) and it started to play out a lot smoother although it has worst spec otherwise then my laptop (4 GB DDR3 vs 2 GB DDR2, i5 vs Core 2). Then I copied to my current desktop with some pretty modern graphics card (AMD HD6850) and it would play very smoothly. It was the graphics card all alone those integrated graphics just can