Does RC3 give low frames for HD LiveTV? (3 Viewers)

[Paranoid Delusion]

Have you tried another reputable h.264 codec, like CoreAVC which is reported to be the fastest HD decoder you can get.

 

[jba-mp]

Interesting question you posed there. I was under the impression that DVB-T HD was still MPEG-2, so I've been talking about my MPEG-2 codecs. The only H.264 codec options I have in MP is the ffdshow filter.

What makes you think my HD livetv is H.264 and not MPEG-2, perhaps I remembered it incorrectly?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

You can check which codec\filter is being used with graphstudio, just connect to remote graph when live tv's playing, this will give you input\filters\renderer information.

To confirm the filetype you would need something like gspot and this will also give the same information as graphstudio.

Never had broadcast HD, so yes possibly mpeg2 or h.264, gspot will tell you this.

 

[jba-mp]

VideoLan (which I happened to have handy on the machine) says it's MPEG-2. So I figure it's MPEG 2.

Am starting to think a wipe and clean install might be called for, but really would like to at least find the cause of the stutter before doing that.

 

[PaulAEvans]

BBC HD is definitely H.264 you will need good decoder and graphics hardware accelerator for best results

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I would make sure, that you have .net fully upto date including 3.5 and the latest directx, also any WMP11 updates there may be, besides any updated drivers\Bios that about all you can do.

Still not sure about Nero as a codec though, might be worthwhile getting powerdvd trial and see if that is any better.

 

[jonaskp]

I would also suggest downloading the trial of CoreAVC and setting this as the H.264 decoder. I have not been able to get ffdshow to play HD properly.
After installing CoreAVC and using this as the HD decoder, I have had smooth HD playback ever since. And since the trial doesn't cost a thing, it can't hurt to try it out.

I have never seen a HD broadcast in Mpeg-2, they are usually Mpeg-4/H.264.

 

[Lotsofjazz]

I would also suggest downloading the trial of CoreAVC and setting this as the H.264 decoder. I have not been able to get ffdshow to play HD properly.
After installing CoreAVC and using this as the HD decoder, I have had smooth HD playback ever since. And since the trial doesn't cost a thing, it can't hurt to try it out.

I have never seen a HD broadcast in Mpeg-2, they are usually Mpeg-4/H.264.

Everybody says CoreAVC is a good Codec, but in my case I had many lip sync problems.. not sure, but is CoreAVC only software decoding?

With ffdshow, you need to make sure all settings are correct, and then it plays virtually everything you throw at it, disadvantage is that it can use software decoding only. It took me a while before I got everything right in ffdshow, read a lot on the internet about it.

Mpeg2 can also be HD. Here with Ziggo cable, Discovery HD is broadcasted in Mpeg2 720p.

To view everything, you need just a few codecs and containers.. In my case I have the following:

PowerDVD8 (codecs for DVD, BD, HDDVD, HDTV, SDTV, AVC, etc.. hardware acelleration)
ffdshow (for movies that dont play correctly with PowerDVD codecs)
AC3filter, to send digital audio to the SPDIF directly (dolby/DTS audio is decoded in my Marantz AMP who is much better in doing so, then the realtek thingy on board my MOBO)
Matroska (including haali media splitter, direct vobsub for the subtitles), to make sure all movies (containers like MKV) are recognized
Xvid (for divx movies and other AVI's)
and of course Windows Mediaplayer 11, for the WMV files and music files.

That's all I use at the moment.

lots

 

[Lotsofjazz]

Vista used to go in hybernation easy on my system (everything powered down), but since one of these windows updates a few months ago, that possibility has gone, I have no idea how that happened and why that has changed. Since then I just power it off and works ok for me.

You should go over to the Greenbutton forum, there are lots of users where standby\hibernate will not work, personally think it hardware related, have seen one of the nvidia components blamed in some cases and i had to revert to a prior driver because of issues with graphics on resume, took a while to go into standby as well (about a minute), so i knew something was not right straight away.

I got hybernate in vista back!

Did a search on the microsoft support website and found this:

Start> type 'cmd' in the search box at the bottom> right click on 'cmd.exe', open as administrator

in the dos box command prompt, type 'powercfg -h on' [enter]
(without the quotes of course)

close the dos box.

Go into the Configuration manager>energy management and the Hybernate option is available again.

The support page said that during computer clean up the hybernation backup file was deleted.

I tried it and it works again, but now i have ro find a way that the remote responds to the pc button to get it out of hybernation.

But at least it powers down and when powerbutton is pushed it turns on quickly and mediaportal is available immediately.

Not sure if this on topic...:sorry:

lots

 

[jonaskp]

I tried it and it works again, but now i have ro find a way that the remote responds to the pc button to get it out of hybernation.

But at least it powers down and when powerbutton is pushed it turns on quickly and mediaportal is available immediately.

Not sure if this on topic...:sorry:

lots

Some things to check, in regards to your new problem:
1: USB powermanegemt. In Device Manager, check your usb connections and make sure that the once that are related with your remote, are set to "Allow this device to bring PC out of Sleep/hibernation".
2: Make sure that the BIOS settings are right too. Here you also have to make sure that your USB device can bring the computer out of sleep mode.