1080p video choppy in x64 vista

[AznMaverick]

My hardware setup is a E6600 Core2Duo w/ 8 GB PC667 RAM, 8800 GTS, and x64 Vista Ultimate. Whenever I play 1080p video encoded with the x264 codec (through VLC 0.96 and WMC using the vista codec package w/ the x64 codec pack) the picture is either really choppy or slow, any fast action stuff is just frozen until it slows down. I also have the latest video drivers installed. Is my hardware not good enough to handle this kind of video?

 

[pcslookout]

Try kmplayer and do not install any codec packs at all. You don't at least with kmplayer I don't think. I play quicktime 1080p files streaming from the apple website of movie trailers and scenes just fine on my intel dual core, 4 GB of ram and 8800 GTS. I prefer to stream them from the apple site because I don't like to wait even if it is only for 30 seconds to a minute. Works great! I hate quicktime anyway.

 

[AznMaverick]

Thanks for the response! The picture is still a little choppy but significantly better. Unfortunately, now the audio is coming out before the video 🙁

 

[AznMaverick]

I bought core avc and am using it with this player and works perfectly. thank you for the suggestion.

 

[0roo0roo]

still, even without coreavc that processor should be able to decode 1080p easy

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
still, even without coreavc that processor should be able to decode 1080p easy

:thumbsup:

Yep if my Intel Core2Duo E6420 can his E6600 Core2Duo should be able to. He has a little faster processor and double the ram I do. My machine plays 1080p files very smoothly.

You shouldn't need coreavc at all. I really don't like downloading codecs because they seem to mess more things up than help.

 

[IndieSnob]

I have no clue why people install all of the various K-Lite, etc. etc. codec packs.

The only thing you need if FFDshow and VLC. Installing all the others codec packs just adds to the mess, and thus people have difficulty with certain videos.

 

[AznMaverick]

yeah, i would agree, but my computer says otherwise. i have the ffdshow installed and vlc as well. both are choppy with 1080p video. kind of frustrating so i just figured if $15 could get rid of my frustration it was worth it, and it sure was.

 

[takeru]

my htpc has a e2180 and 1gig of ram with onboard nvidia 7050 gpu, and plays 1080p x264 video's fine. you should check your performance graphs. maybe your output isn't fully using your cpu. all i needed to do was install ffdshow with multicore support, and used media player classic.