Ishmael

I'm just slowly learning my new Lumix ZS100 camera. I took some sample videos and played them on my Chromebook and HDTV. Very good quality. Then I saw the setting that said MP4 (which I was on) good for viewing on PC. THen there was AVCHD setting "good for HDTV" it said. So I switched to AVCHD and took a couple videos. When I went to play them my Chromebook wouldn't play them or even recognize them. It was as if they didn't exist. Then I got them to play on my HDTV but they were very low quality, nowhere near as nice as my MP4s. So naturally I have switched back to MP4. I know I could Google all this, but maybe someone here can clue me in what's going on? Why isn't AVCHD better quality video which the setting says?

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

My Lumix FZ80 shoots 60P .mp4 files and 60P AVCHD .MTS files. I just shot a test of my CD shelf using both and below is a screenshot pic of single frames from both videos taken with the VLC Media Player snapshot function. It's very hard to see any difference.

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Ishmael

Thanks for sending that. I will have to look up AVCHD to see what it means. Evidently setting my zs100 To AVCHD will accomplish nothing except making it impossible to view my videos on my Chromebook. It must be a gimmick.

Ishmael

I looked up AVCHD now I know. The article I read showed a comparison of the two formats in a picture much like yours and I could see no difference there, either.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

You are welcome Ishmael. I noticed with the Lumix FZ80, 60fps HD in both mp4 format and avchd were at 28mbps. Perhaps that is why there was no difference. I think on some cameras the avchd shoots at a higher mbps rate than mp4, which could make a difference.