Compressing GoPro videos

[curtis]

Interesting thread. I have a GoPro too and did some in car filming during some hillclimbs.
However, they would not play correctly on my PC. The sound was OK but the picture moved about every 15/20 secs.

Are you playing directly from the SD card Curtis (if so that is probably your problem)? Files are best played from your hard drive. If you still have a problem this may be down to inadequate processing power in your CPU or video card. I tend to use VLC for home video playback - it’s free & pretty forgiving.

Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that IT is not my strongest point.
I downloaded the files from the camera onto my computer. And it was from there the problem I described arrived on playback.
How does VLC work ?

[niemeyjt]

Install it from here - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - it's free.

Then use it to play the video files from the GoPro instead of Windows Media Player.

It will play a variety of other file formats as well, and is a useful viewer for DVDs, movies and other video files as well. I like it.

[curtis]

OK I"ll try it and report back.