bright colors in 1080P movies make computer lag

[soccerballtux]

Radeon X1600. But in the darker scenes of movies, even during fast paced action, it's completely fine.

He's going to try updating his Catalyst drivers, but seriously, wtf?

 

[gramboh]

On your machine? I'd think the CPU at 3.4GHz would be fine for 1080p decode. I'm assuming x264?

 

[soccerballtux]

Friend's. He's got an X2 4800+ IIRC.

 

[gramboh]

That should still be able to render 1080p smoothly from what I remember. Is he using the latest version of FFDshow for decoding? Tell him to get the latest CCCP community codec pack to get it. Also use Media Player Classic. This is assuming he is trying to play x264 encoded files (such as .mkv). If it is an actual blu-ray disc I'm not sure what the problem might be.

 

[soccerballtux]

He's been using VLC.

CCCP? We don't support china communists.

From my tests, MPC is always slower than VLC. Yeah it's mkv.

 

[gramboh]

Seriously, get FFDshow (it's included in the CCCP codec pack along with other useful tools, but just get FFDshow if you don't want that stuff) and try MPC 6.4 stable.

 

[coolpurplefan]

Hardforum has a guide for viewing HD in the htpc forum but I think the X1600 is a generation-behind type of card that may not be ideal.