- August 5, 2007
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Hi all, long time user of Mepo (as my girlfriend calls it) despite occasional trips to Vista MCE.. I always come back!
Little hardware question:
I've just treated myself to a 47" 1080p screen to enjoy 720p and 1080p 264 content from Mediaportal (and later either a hardware HD-DVD or bluray player - or perhaps a PC based solution)
However, I cant get decent playback of 720p during high motion, and barely at all on 1080p - but I want to be sure where the bottleneck is before I invest in more bits.
Setup:
Running Nvidia 6200LE PCI-E @ 1920x1080, P4 Prescott HT (3ghz) 1gb DDR2 667, XP Pro Sp2, Trust 514DX (Optical out for audio to amp) - cant remember my exact motherboard but is an MSI 478 board with DDR/DDR2 sockets, and onboard Radeon R200 (which fares about the same as the Nvidia card)
I've run the videos (.MKV files and quicktime HD content files) in MPC, and the same issues occur.. 720p fine until there is high motion then stuttering kicks in... inevitably fallling out of sync more and more unless the high motion sequence is brief in which case it rushes to catch up with itself. 1080p is much worse, less motion required to trip it up.
Now I checked the task manager during these bouts and saw that cpu usage was 95-100%.
Should I go for a decent HW video accellerating card (like the ATI 2400/2600, or the forthcoming 3850?) in order to lessen the load on the CPU, or should I replace motherboard and cpu, going for a Core 2 Duo type (as my laptop can play the 720p stuff no problem, and its the 1.7ghz C2D, with a poop Intel Graphics card - but is only running a res of 1280x720)
Thanks for any advice!
Forgot to add that I've tried various 264 codecs including CoreAVC, and FFDshow - some perform better than others but overall the problem remains.
Little hardware question:
I've just treated myself to a 47" 1080p screen to enjoy 720p and 1080p 264 content from Mediaportal (and later either a hardware HD-DVD or bluray player - or perhaps a PC based solution)
However, I cant get decent playback of 720p during high motion, and barely at all on 1080p - but I want to be sure where the bottleneck is before I invest in more bits.
Setup:
Running Nvidia 6200LE PCI-E @ 1920x1080, P4 Prescott HT (3ghz) 1gb DDR2 667, XP Pro Sp2, Trust 514DX (Optical out for audio to amp) - cant remember my exact motherboard but is an MSI 478 board with DDR/DDR2 sockets, and onboard Radeon R200 (which fares about the same as the Nvidia card)
I've run the videos (.MKV files and quicktime HD content files) in MPC, and the same issues occur.. 720p fine until there is high motion then stuttering kicks in... inevitably fallling out of sync more and more unless the high motion sequence is brief in which case it rushes to catch up with itself. 1080p is much worse, less motion required to trip it up.
Now I checked the task manager during these bouts and saw that cpu usage was 95-100%.
Should I go for a decent HW video accellerating card (like the ATI 2400/2600, or the forthcoming 3850?) in order to lessen the load on the CPU, or should I replace motherboard and cpu, going for a Core 2 Duo type (as my laptop can play the 720p stuff no problem, and its the 1.7ghz C2D, with a poop Intel Graphics card - but is only running a res of 1280x720)
Thanks for any advice!
Forgot to add that I've tried various 264 codecs including CoreAVC, and FFDshow - some perform better than others but overall the problem remains.