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Best card for video decoding

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plethora87

Junior Member
Hello,

I've had a Radeon HD 5570 for a few years, and am finding more and more lately that I can't play HD content (720 or 1080) without choppiness. I assume it's because the card doesn't do newer codecs and hardware.

Hoping for some advice on what I should replace it with. I don't play games -- video is it. I'm running Win7 x64 with a Core i7 920.

Thanks!
 
thats very odd, the card should be enough to do hd playback without any issues, but if you are looking to upgrade what price range are you looking at?
 
Most HD videos are okay, but some have issues. It seems to be getting more common, so I figured maybe I was underpowered.

I'm open to any price range at this point. Exploring all the options. 🙂
 
well, if you dont do any gaming i would guess a 7770 or a gtx 650 would be more than enough to do video decoding, and both are pretty cheap also
 
As an interim solution, could you disable hardware decoding, and instead use your core i7 to decode the video, e.g., using a "software decoding" setting in whatever video player you are using?
 
Hmm, tarmc is right, that card should have no issues with playing 1080p video.

What media player are you using ?
 
I usually use VLC, but I also try MPC when a particular video acts up. They both seem to perform the same with a given video.

Any better ones out there?
 
Try lowering some video quality settings in ccc like noise reduction. I'm not sure if your app can override ccc settings as well in its own quality settings.
 
VLC is simply the best. Grab a GTX 650 TI for $120-$140 and your problem is solved. You'll also be able to game a little, too. Just remember: The GTX 650 Ti does NOT support SLI.
 
I have the same card (well, the 2GB Eyefinity version) and I've never had any issues whatsoever playing HD content.

Stuttering/choppy playback can sometimes point to a bottleneck elsewhere. How much RAM do you have? Do you have a regular HDD or an SSD? Could be an I/O issue caused by slow read/write speeds to the pagefile. If you've got enough RAM to allow for it, try disabling the pagefile and see what happens.
 
Also, maybe your computer's internal components are snuggling in a nice warm blanket of dust to retain lots of heat, causing everything to get all out of whack when anything is done that generates heat.
 
3GB of RAM with an SSD, and mostly dust-free internals. 🙂

Just tried a choppy 1080 video in VLC while watching CCC. CPU activity goes to 90+%. This would seem to confirm the GPU is the bottleneck, but I'm at a loss as to why if it should have enough horsepower. Any thoughts?
 
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