Unable to play the "killa clip", as expected? (1 Viewer)

[cnfuzzd]

Just a random noob question. I have spent the last couple of days getting everthing installed and configured (mediaportal is awesome), and am now at an evaluation stage. I am playing every video format fine, but when I attempt to play the "Pole to Pole" epi of the planet earth series (its an .mkv in 1080p) I get pronounced stuttering at the scene with all the birds. I have since discovered that this clip is commonly used to stress players. I have not been able to ascertain if my hardware should be able to handle it, and since I know next to nothing about pretty much anything a/v related, I can't let go of the nagging suspicion that it is my fault that this video can't play. Here is my setup:

GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H (using the onboard graphics)
AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Vista Ultimate x32
HDMI to HDMI connection to TV
This box is not doing anything else besides htpc.

I have mediaportal configured (as of now) per Phil's guide to installing mp on avsforum (MediaPortal Install Guide - AVS Forum). I have also tried it with coreavc. Nothing Different.

So, with this hardware, is the stuttering normal, or should I continue tweaking? I am very happy with what i have, especially considering what I paid for it, so if I have to live with it, no big deal. Everything else looks great.

Thanks very much in advance!


John

So, with this hardware

 

[wojciech_ste]

Hi Cnfuzzd,
I have one question to you How many RAM did you "reserved" for the onborad graphic card? This setting you can see/change in BIOS. I would propose that you "reserve" minimum 512MB RAM.
The second thing is, your onboard graphic card (ATI 3200) is not the fastest one and if you have some movies which stress the players so can be that graphic card are to slow. Try eg. Club 3D Radeon HD 3650 Passive, 512MB DDR2, this is non-expensive graphic card. This grafic card make's any noise and has HDMI adapter.
Also grafic card in my system NVidia GeForce 6200GT passive doesn't make any problems.

I hope it help's a little bit.

Hi,

I just checked the dirver list.
I found the new driver (Version 8.11, Date 2009/01/08) for Chipset/VGA try this driver!