720p and 1080p .mkv choppy playback

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:39 pm

Here are my system specs:

Athlon 64 3200+ (~2.0GHz)
GeForce 8800 GTS (1064 MB)
2 Gigs of Ram
not sure about the mobo

I'm trying to watch some 720p and 1080p .mkv files with VLC Media Player. The 720p is slightly choppy, and the 1080p is basically unwatchable, the video is frozen most of the time while the audio continues.

I'm just wondering if this is simply due to my PC not being powerful enough to play them back or if there are some settings/customizations I'm not aware of that perhaps will allow a smooth watchable playback. Any suggestions at all would be appreciated.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:09 am

Try this program...it should help offload the HD decoding to your video card and play smooth as silk.

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 5:14 am

I tried it out, and it did seem to make the 720p video run pretty smoothly, although the 1080p is still unwatchable XD Are there any settings I have to configure with the Media Player to take full effect of "HD decoding" ?

Thanks very much.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:00 pm

not sure of any other settings as I mostly watch 720p myself and have never needed to do any tweaking of it...my htpc is even slower than yours

Sempron 2800/1gb/ati 3450...

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:30 pm

Hm alright, thanks. Anyone else know of anything I can try to get the 1080p videos to play smoothly with my system specs?