need help with choppy video!

[sonyman]

i think i have noticed that videos with "lol" in the title, have a bad frame rate, can someone pls tell me what "lol" in the torrent name stands for. while xvid only torrents seem to play fine.

also , this thing is open source right? is there a VLC plug in BC the videos that skip on the Neuros do not skip on my Mac using VLC. thanks. []

[neo979]

I think in the torrent world, lol is just plain-old "laugh out loud," because it is usually attached to torrents pertaining to sitcom downloads.

That said, I'm not sure what that has to do with the Neuroses (hee-hee). I presume you are putting a downloaded file on a Neuros and trying to watch it on TV. Since most torrents are fancy high-definition rips, frankly I would be surprised if a Neuros didn't experience any performance issues with them. I don't think they were designed for that.

I always thought the main point of the Neuros was to capture video FROM television - if you just want to send video TO your television, you could just burn a DVD. Even if you don't have a DVD burner or don't want to pay for DVD-Rs, you could burn a video CD with a Mac program called Divillusion, and almost all DVD players will play video CDs (even many that do not mention or do[vanilla ice cream]ent this feature whatsoever).

If you don't even have a DVD player, try QuickTime Pro or ffMpegX to convert the video to a smaller resolution and/or lower data or frame rate.

[neo979]

Oh goodie, someone tell the profanity filter to read the freaking "vanilla ice cream."

[sonyman]

Thanks for the help. and yes you have it right i am using neuros to watch my tv programs , i watch almost all my shows on my computer around 15, in total , not all at once thou. he he, i DL them to my mac in avi format then copy it to my pro duo 2 gb  i have season 4 and 5 of 24 on the mac right now ,i was tired of looking at them on a 17" all of season 4 seams to have that frame rate prob. and like i was saying its lol, here is an example of what i mean,

*EDITED*

check out the 1st two on the list and some others farther down,  by the way this is not only on 24 torrents its on alote, i don't believe it stands for laugh out loud.

P.S. i don't get your comment about VLC? VLC is a codac used for viewing avi files and such. its prob. one of the best, and  was wondering if it would be added to there other codac's.

[neo979]

VLC is actually a multi-platform program that supports many codecs, including some that are difficult to find for Windows Media Player and/or QuickTime. I did not even mention it in my post, so I'm not sure what comment you are referring to. I like VLC and use it a lot, although my understanding is that it cannot leverage the graphic accelerator cards in Macs as well as QuickTime can, and it does seem like QT Player has better performance - if it works at all.

I also use that torrent site sometimes, but frankly, pirating TV shows is illegal, and I'm not sure what the moderators will think about the actual link being in this thread. Since you have a Neuros and 24 doesn't even require cable, I'm unclear why you don't just digitize it yourself...?

Anyway, I have noticed that "lol" is sometimes appended to things that are not actually comedies. I can only guess that the world of piracy is informal and sometimes inaccurate. I don't think the "lol" is very important here - the point is almost certainly just that the files have too high a resolution for a Neuros to handle well.

[Teh Internet Police]

Guys, it is not okay to talk about downloading copywrited material on our forums. Please dont link to torrents and questions about torrenting material should not be asked here.

Neuros Team

[neo979]

Guys, plural? I didn't link to anything.