how do i play 1080p videos smoothly - UPDATED AND FIXED!!!!!

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: gsellis

Originally posted by: Todd33
Don't use WM10. I found Nero Showtime can play 1080P smooth as buutter and WM10 stutters. I have no idea why though.

hijack...

Really? What settings did you change? I find that Nero Showtime is the worst for dropping frames on my system.

Nothing. I just tried it and it worked 100% better. Not sure why.

 

[secretanchitman]

i just installed the 2GBs of ram and the 6600GT. 1080p plays smoothly just like 720p!!!!!

thanks for all your help guys!!!!!!!

 

[xtknight]

Nero ShowTime does support H.264 acceleration with NVIDIA graphics cards. CoreAVC is faster at the expense of quality, and is no longer free (supported).

Here are tests I performed a while ago using one of the first builds of ShowTime to support the acceleration. It may have improved since.

http://xtknight.atothosting.com/benchmarks/h264hw.png
http://xtknight.atothosting.com/benchmarks/h264hwlc.png
http://xtknight.atothosting.com/benchmarks/h264hwlm.png
http://xtknight.atothosting.com/benchmarks/h264nohw.png

 

[unsped]

what are you watching exactly?

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: unsped
what are you watching exactly?

1080p trailers, tv shows (asian), clips, upscaled movies via the dvd-rw in my computer, etc. also prepping for blu-ray and hd-dvd.

edit: cant spell.

 

[Auric]

Huzzah secretanchitman!

Yeah, I don't why some folks are so ga-ga over CoreAVC. The whole point of HD is quality so sacrificing that to compensate for borderline hardware may be fine for a novelty (especiallly when free) but not otherwise. If buying a commercial codec, better quality and value can be had from Ahead/Ateme or Cyberlink (especially with HW bundles)... or dare I say even nVidia's package since it does more than AVC for the $20.

 

[Auric]

AVC/H.264 Decoder CPU Utilization