Mom's new Nikon Coolpix S9100 takes HD video.
Once she got a card reader (her Linux PC didn't mount the camera due to a PTP vs MTP issue (I believe the issue is that Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't support MTP: I'm 5,000km away, cannot thoroughly test it)), she loaded her images & videos onto her hard drive.
But the video playback was jerky, played for a few seconds, paused (audio continued), pixelated some frames, paused, then played the final few frames.
This was using VLC or Movie Player in Ubuntu, and with Media Player Classic (a slightly old version), or Media Player 11 in Windows XP.
Seems others have encountered this issue too.
Here (finally) is my solution:
