Well, I just got the new GoPro Hero2 for 2 weeks now and felt kinda stupid using it.

1. First of all, my computer is not fast enough. It requires a 3.2 something GHz or higher to play 1080 HD. My computer is 2.3 or something. When I playback video I just recorded...it's choppy...skipping. But when I load up on YouTube then it's plays perfect.

2. So I thought, I just record video, load it to YouTube, edit using YouTube editor, all good right, so I went for a 30min ride. Beautiful weather! Got home and proceed loading video to YouTube, *** file too large! It loads about 10% taking 6 hours...so in order to load entire 30min will take 1800 minutes. So I left it on...overnight, wake up next day, **** the computer hibernates...freezes to load process. I said forget about this...

3. Next idea, how about I just shoot 2-3minutes shots...just press stop, then record intermediately.... So it was a
Beautiful day yesterday, I went riding pacific coast highway...with my GoPro mount on helmet. I press stop(recording) during stop lights/traffic...press record during smooth riding. Did so awesome cornering, felt very good about my shots...I thought wow, going to be nice video when I edit and put them together... Got home all happy...start my loading process....WTF??? **** how come video don't play...then I found out GoPro was in Camera mode...so all along I was pressing to take single pictures, not recording...

Just wanted to share...stupid me...

 

If you get sick of messing with it, I will take it! I need the GoPro2....

 

If you off-load to a decent graphics card, you'll do better time editing. Do
you have a descrete video card or are you using on-board graphics? You
might also see how much RAM you have. if you post your stats...CPU?
GPU? amount and type of RAM, I might be able to help you work it out. It's
not just CPU speed in play here. I run a 2.67Ghz proccessor speed .

The problem with cloud editing is (as you noticed) the up-load time.
Generally, your up-load speed is a lot slower then your down-load speed.
The reason the You-tube video plays well, has to do with the way it's
encoded and streamed back to you.

Hunt down 2 programs called CPUID and GPUID. Run those and they will
report all of the geek stats that you need to know about your computer.
The last tab on either of them has a text-file dump, so you can save/share
the information. If you're running win7, go to Control panel>All Control
Panel Items>Performance Information and Tools. That does a lot of the same reporting.

Ern

 

At first, I thought that it was my SD card (class 4 PNY optima), so I purchase a SanDisk 30MB/s.... Same choppy video when playing.

My computer is a laptop / Sony Viao...2.3 something GHz...

The GoPro Hero2 manually say minimum is 3.2 something Ghz to play HD video?

I'm at work now therefore going by my memory. For exact information, I need to go home at identify.

If I can somehow tweek this Sony laptop to make it play smooth, that'll be great!

I by no means a expert...so what option do I have? Where can I find CPU? Or GPU

 

Clarify: i purchase SanDisk Class 10 extreme 30MB/s

This is the SD
Card GoPro recommend

 

I shoot in 720p using 60fps on my GoPro (not the new one). I like the smoothness better than I like 1080p. For what it's worth.

 

I recall....I shot using all format (not just 1080) and it's all choppy...skipping?

But when I load on YouTube, it play back smooth...

I'm worry if it's my computer or my GoPro?

 

It sounds like a buffer issue to me. Are you running the video off the SD card?
If so, that's the problem. Copy the videos to hard-drive and then try playing them.
Most modern lap-tops should be up to 1080 video. If it's older than 3-4 years,
then it might be a hardware issue. Post the model and I can look it up and see
what you've got under the hood.

Ern

 

Thanks Ern, I'll bring my laptop to work tomorrow and input needed information.

Regarding playing back directly from SD card, I did trouble shoot on GoPro website and they did mention this fact. So I did try saving file in my computer (my video) and then playing it, same problem.

Now today, I have te SD card with me, at work. I try playing it directly from card & saving file into computer and replaying it, same choppy problem. I ask my IT at work, he says there should be enough Ram, so Ram should not be an issue....

So not only my lap top, but also my work's public desktop computer unable to playback smoothly.

 

to clarify, is the video choppy while youre ripping it to your computer, or anytime you try to watch/edit it?
if its being choppy while ripping it then, from my experience, thats normal.