Jerky playback of 1080p with phenom 98/9950 BE

[Mechromancer]

Also theres a way to "trick" VLC into using our ATI and Nvidia HARDWARE video decoding capabilities. You go into the settings and mess with overlay and decoding options. Google info about VLC and you may find it.

Interesting Note: My WD 74GB Raptor crapped on me so I installed OpenSuSE 11.0. That 6.64GB 1080p file that I needed a multi-threaded FFDShow to play in Windows plays on one core in Linux only using ~80%. Instead of 90% of two cores in Windows, I only need 80% of one core in Linux!!! I'm trying to find out why. This works with any of the players (well the players with codecs, linux codec support sux) in SuSE so I think Linux uses CPU resources more efficiently. Interesting...

[User9498]

Also theres a way to "trick" VLC into using our ATI and Nvidia HARDWARE video decoding capabilities. You go into the settings and mess with overlay and decoding options. Google info about VLC and you may find it.

Any more information or direct links on this? I Googled for a while and couldn't find anything.

[panzerchaos47]

If you have an ATI card HD 3xxx or higher.
All I did was use Media Player Classic HC and play a 1080p mkv and it works. Just make sure disable GPU folding before playing the video.

This was tested on clean XP install with HD 3870 when I was setting up my HTPC that means no codec was installs. All did is install drivers and download MPC HC.

[kazgirl]

On the subject of codecs etc, I wonder what is the best codec pack to use for Vista MCE for HD playback using a DVB-S2 HD Satellite Tuner Card.

I'm currently in the process of upgrading my current HTPC:

ASUS M2N32-SLI (AM2, NF590)
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Phenom 9850BE
4GB (4 x 1GB) Patriot DDR2-800 RAM
8800GTS 320MB
Hauppage WinTV Nova S-Plus DVB-S (standard only) TV Card

to

ASUS M3A32-MVP (AM2+, 790FX)
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Phenom 9850BE
4GB RAM (as above)
ATI HD3870
Hauppage WinTV Nova-HD-S2 (DVB-S2 HD Satellite Tuner Card)

Ideally I want to continue using Media Center as I like its UI compared to others.

Has anyone got a similar configuration, who can offer confirmation on compatability, and what codec packages are needed etc...

I'm fairly new to the whole HTPC stuff, particularly where HD is concerned, I've had my DVB-S card setup and running with WMC for a while now, which took a bit of fiddling to get it to all work, but want to upgrade to DVB-S2 in readiness for HD.

I've done some searching and noticed on the GreenButton site that Windows 7 MC pre-Beta seems to offer full DVB-S2 HD support, and wonder if this might be the way to go, rather than installing Vista, maybe get a [cough] beta copy of Windows 7[/cough] and install this to run on the HTPC and until the retail version becomes available.

[ryboto]

Also theres a way to "trick" VLC into using our ATI and Nvidia HARDWARE video decoding capabilities. You go into the settings and mess with overlay and decoding options. Google info about VLC and you may find it.

VLC can use the video card, you just have to set the output module to Directx.

[hata28]

player is KMPlayer 1433. i have both of these cpus and i cant watch a single 1080p movie without stuttering etc. 720p is fine but it is on my old laptop too...what is going on?

OS is XP X64 , vista X64 , 8 gb of ram , nvidia 260GTX...

please help

I have the same mobo as u but I have the 9950 and 8800 GTS. I installed only K-lite codec and Real Alternatives

Using KM player 1432, i can play this movies:

Release Group: iKA
Release Name: Freedomland.2006.1080p.BluRay.x264-iKA
Source: BluRay
Size: 8.12 GB
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Video: Widescreen x264 9422 kbps 1920×800
Audio: DTS 1536 kbs
Runtime: 90 mins

Flawlessly thru my Sharp HDTV .

[N00B]

If you have an ATI card HD 3xxx or higher.
All I did was use Media Player Classic HC and play a 1080p mkv and it works. Just make sure disable GPU folding before playing the video.

This was tested on clean XP install with HD 3870 when I was setting up my HTPC that means no codec was installs. All did is install drivers and download MPC HC.

Its true my 4850EE and 780g plays it really smoth.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...DPlus_5.1.html

Try this one it will kick the sh*t out of your system,


Decoding using cpu



Decoding using gpu

[Throwed]

still think VLC player is better and not changing. IMO..... but thanks for heads up on CCCP

Gotta agree with you on this one. All my BluRay, DVD, Divx, and etc. plays flawlessly on the VLC Player. I wouldn't use anything else. All the codec and tweaking stuff is a waste of time when VLC can do it all for me. I have a mere AMD 4050e Dual Core (stock clocked), Radeon 3850, and 2GB of RAM under Vista 32 Bit Ultimate and everything runs without a problem. All my 1080p and 720p play great, be it Blu Ray Disc or downloaded torrent content. Sorry some of you are having problems though.

[ea6gka]

Gotta agree with you on this one. All my BluRay, DVD, Divx, and etc. plays flawlessly on the VLC Player. I wouldn't use anything else. All the codec and tweaking stuff is a waste of time when VLC can do it all for me. I have a mere AMD 4050e Dual Core (stock clocked), Radeon 3850, and 2GB of RAM under Vista 32 Bit Ultimate and everything runs without a problem. All my 1080p and 720p play great, be it Blu Ray Disc or downloaded torrent content. Sorry some of you are having problems though.

maybe because the 3850 is doing the hardware decoding? try playing a 1080p x264 and tell us if its smooth

[wiak]

try a proper player
like TotalMedia Theatre for blu-ray
http://www.arcsoft.com/products/totalmediatheatre/

and for 1080p mkv, try Media Player Classic Home Cinema
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

i have no problems on blu-ray and 1080p mkv
and i have 9850 BE, 4GB DDR2 PC6400, ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB

[Manicdan]

i really just want something to use hardware to play back x264 in an mkv. any tips or predictions?