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SeaCastle

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I'm running Vista Home Premium on an Inspiron 1521. For some reason whenever I play HD files, the picture lags and looks more akin to time-lapse surveillance footage. Is there a plug-in to download to fix this? Thanks in advance!
 
SeaCastle said:
dolbyman said:
that old amd dualcore processor can't handle hd very well... Intel processors had (and have) more punch per MHz

You could try to use coreavc for boosting hd decoding (enables my small eeepc atom to playback 720p)

http://corecodec.com/products/coreavc
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Thank you for the suggestion! I guess it is time I switch to Mac.
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The videos are playing back fine in VLC v1.0.5 (Goldeneye) and the Apple QuickTime Player v7.6.6 on my self-built PC.

OS: Windows XP SP3/Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit
CPU: quad-core Xeon (X3220, 2.40 GHz)
RAM: 8 GB
Motherboard: Intel DP965LT
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT chip, 512 MB RAM

You should consider upgrading to a quad-core machine, whether it's a PC or a Mac.
 
As a contrast (and what to expect on a steam-driven PC when the rubber band gets worn), even VLC can't handle HD on my PC
XP SP3 (doubt my brain RAM has the power to cope with Linux)
1.7GH Celeron
1 G Ram
AC97 built in graphics chip.
Sound is fine, picture choppy or still.
Now you know why the HD doesn't play.  ;D
 
pixelated said:
You should consider upgrading to a quad-core machine, whether it's a PC or a Mac.
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well vlc doesn't support multithread decoding.. so a high power sinngle or dual core(so all other processes have a cpu to work on)  should be fine for hd playback

optional decoding with graphic cores (cuda) could be done
 
Yes one (unused) and 3 pci slots (one free).
I've always been a little dubious about getting video and sound cards (knowing very little about them) and I get fed up with the laughter when I ask at the store about installing them  :p
I'm not sure whether modern cards would work on my PC as it's rather old now.
Had enough trouble getting the Ram upgraded as it had the old way of setting the chips.
 
eyeore you could fit an agp graphics card in 2 minutes and its easy plus you can get high quality agp card now very cheaply .

it will take the strain off your motherboard having to do most of the calculations and should help your graphics a lot
 
I'll certainly look into it.
I'd never looked for the agp before (bit difficult to see the motherboard in the PC and it was one that I bought off a friend who wouldn't know what the inside of a PC looked like, much less what was in there).
May just stop the cpu running at 100%  ;)
Thanks.
 
dolbyman said:
pixelated said:
You should consider upgrading to a quad-core machine, whether it's a PC or a Mac.
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well vlc doesn't support multithread decoding.. so a high power sinngle or dual core(so all other processes have a cpu to work on)  should be fine for hd playback
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Hmm, I didn't know that about VLC :eek:.  I just tried playing SANY0001.MP4 (Tomorrowland Mall DL) in VLC and yep, it's a bit choppy.  Task Manager shows CPU usage pegged at around 28-30%.  Apple QuickTime Player plays it smoothly and CPU usage is around 42-44% so I assume that means QuickTime Player uses multithreading.  You learn something new everyday ;D.
 
I did a search for "multithreaded video player" and I found out the great MPlayer app from the Linux world has been ported to Windows and some of the builds use multithreaded codecs.  Boo-ya!
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Being a Linux project, there are many choices of packages you can install ;D.  If you're comfortable with running apps from the command-line, the one linked to by "MPlayer SVN Windows (has ffmpeg-mt and regular builds)" in the "Binaries" table on that "Download" page worked for me.  It uses the experimental multithreaded FFmpeg-mt library:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
I used the option "−lavdopts threads=4" to let MPlayer know I have a quad-core CPU and MPlayer had no problems playing the DL Tomorrowland video.

There is a package that comes with two GUIs that worked for me as well:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Players/MPlayer-for-Windows-Full-Package.shtml
 
floridafan said:
hi again eyore
                    if you are uncertain about certain aspects of your pcs hardware or software , run this wee programme and it gives you an intant report on all your pcs hardware/software that will help you and others when upgrading

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

cheers
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Thanks for that. It gave me a lot of information I wasn't aware of.
As I said, I bought the PC off a friend who was upgrading so I never knew the full specs etc (just that it was better than mine). It's not a well known make and there was very little available on the Internet about the make (Hyunju i-friend) and  only 3 hits (in Korean) for my model.  8)
I do tend only to look for things when I'm either solving a problem or going to ask "have you got one that fits this" at the store.  :D
Very handy little program.
 
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