Choppy 1080P playback

[sparks]

I've got a new Dell 2407 with a dual monitor set up. I am using a Samsung 710T in portrait mode as the second monitor. Whenever I try to play any 1080P material its very choppy and the frame rate is very low, especially with Quicktime. If I disable the second monitor, almost all 1080P stuff will work properly, except for Quicktime files. My system is as follows:

Opteron 175
2 GB RAM
6800GT

Is this normal behavior for the system that I have?

 

[potato28]

What are the other players u use for the 1080p?

 

[tuteja1986]

well if your playing XVID , DIVX HD 1080p content ect use BS player as its one of the best video player , i like it better than Media Classic player and VLC player.

As for quicktime content , you can try Media CLassic player or get Nero ShowTime. May help

 

[Fadey]

Heh ive got a 7950 , 2 gig ram and a 3700+ @ 2.7ghz and my frames in quicktime drop in 1080p clips as well. 720 run perfect but 1080 drop down to 15ish sometimes its not a huge deal for me but i do notice it from time to time =(.

 

[tuteja1986]

Tell me Quick time content are you guys talking about fadey ... i will try on both of my rig / laptop. i will use 3 Media player and test them for you.

 

[MustangSVT]

dont u have to pay for purevideo or something for 6800 ?

 

[Fadey]

i have pure video but the nstantmedia thing doesnt run quick time 1080 files , and its the spider man 3 trailer off apple site.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

nv40/45 doesn't hardware accelerate WMV9 or H.264 SD or HD, its' programmable video processor is borked. If you had a card that could, you would still need to use a supporting player such as PowerDVD 7, latest WinDVD, or Nero ShowTime 3.

BTW, My X2 3800+@2.6ghz handles QT h.264 1080p content without any PV assist, using MPC, QT7, or VLC, and the playback is smooth. I do play the content off of my RAID5, not off the boot drive, don't know if that matters.

The 90 series forcewares also have improved compatibility with some of these players MPEG2 decoders, so you can now get the hardware decoding and post processing for DVDs without having to purchase the PureVideo Decoder. You just buy the latest supporting PowerDVD or WinDVD, for instance, and you get all the Purevideo features. Even the PQ of DVDs has been improved, though ATI still has an overall slight edge.

 

[sparks]

I dowloaded VLC and it seems to solve the Quicktime problem. I can't believe that a 3rd party player can play back Quicktime clips better than Apple's own player.

 

[krotchy]

Originally posted by: sparks
I dowloaded VLC and it seems to solve the Quicktime problem. I can't believe that a 3rd party player can play back Quicktime clips better than Apple's own player.

I am working alot on video quality research, and we have an h.264 encoder card here that takes uncompressed video and turns it into h.264. Funny thing is, apple claims quicktime to be h.264 compliant, but aparently its only the baseline profile (lower quality). So pretty much everything we do with h.264 video ends up being done in VLC, and sometimes even windows media player can do it, but Quicktime is worthless. VLC is my favorite player, because it is the only one that has consistently worked at every codec and resolution we have thrown at it (with the exception of uncompressed, but every video player under the sun sucks at that)