2008-09-03, 04:58 PM
Hi guys, have put this in GD because it has nothing to do with GB-PVR, I just need some advice from those who know more about media playback than me!
Basically, I'm trying to playback HD video on one of my machines that I have hooked up to a TV - at the moment I have audio that plays fine, but video that consistently freezes for seconds at a time, having to catch up. This is a fresh install of Vista on the following hardware:
P4 3.0Ghz single core
2GB RAM
Nvidia 7600GS video card
The only codecs I have installed is the CCCP (combined community codec pack?) which is using FFDshow to playback the .mkv file I'm using to test. Performance is no better in VLC player using built-in codecs (whatever they are!) In VLC, I tried disabling Overlay mode, but that made things worse.
I'm guessing that the hardware is struggling to cope here, though am struggling to work out which bit! CPU usage is around the 50% mark with just 30MB of RAM being used when trying to play the file. Is it the video card that's struggling? Is there a more efficient codec I can use to watch HD on this machine?
Any advice appreciated.
Basically, I'm trying to playback HD video on one of my machines that I have hooked up to a TV - at the moment I have audio that plays fine, but video that consistently freezes for seconds at a time, having to catch up. This is a fresh install of Vista on the following hardware:
P4 3.0Ghz single core
2GB RAM
Nvidia 7600GS video card
The only codecs I have installed is the CCCP (combined community codec pack?) which is using FFDshow to playback the .mkv file I'm using to test. Performance is no better in VLC player using built-in codecs (whatever they are!) In VLC, I tried disabling Overlay mode, but that made things worse.
I'm guessing that the hardware is struggling to cope here, though am struggling to work out which bit! CPU usage is around the 50% mark with just 30MB of RAM being used when trying to play the file. Is it the video card that's struggling? Is there a more efficient codec I can use to watch HD on this machine?
Any advice appreciated.