1080p lagging problem

[Fizzzl3]

Hello all,my problem is that i can't play 1080p movies smoothly,it lags but not too hard,easy enough to piss me off...
I've treid mpchc,with dxva,ccp,klite,coreavc with mpchc,splash player,etc,still no result
My specs:Nvidia gt220,2gb ram,Intel Celeron E330 2,5 GHZ,Windows 7,32 bit
40gb Hard Drive
Any solution for me to play that type of movies smoothly?

[jman98]

Try VLC. Sometimes it can do the job when nothing else will.

[dragonkeeper]

With a Celeron CPU and GT220 your system is kinda underpowered, upgrading the CPU and video card would be my suggestion.

[Hoser Rob]

I don't know the specs exactly of your cpu but if it isn't dual core you'll have problems with 1080p video, period. Even dvd resolution h.264 video can make fairly serious demands on hardware.

Codec packs won't help. Under windows I got best results yanking all those crap 3rd party non microsoft packs and using software that doesn't need them, like smplayer and vlc. I yanked mpchc some time ago.

Specifically, I got best results in windows 7 with smplayer, with the local file cache set to 8192 Kb in Preferences -> Performance -> Cache.

[Fizzzl3]

The cpu is dual core....
it's Intel Celeron dual-core e3300 2,5...
Vlc didn't seems to solve the problem...
Other suggestions?

[aedipuss]

do a complete virus/trojan/malware scan. delete all temp files. defrag hard dirve. if you open task manager and the video player is still using 100% cpu then...

it's time for a faster computer. celerons are useless budget chips.

[fritzi93]

My first htpc (built ~ 6 years ago) had a Celeron dual-core, less powerful than the OP's. With a Radeon HD2400 video card, it would play 1080p just fine with cpu usage at less than 10%.

I dunno about current nVidia GPUs, is the OP's card DXVA capable?

[El Heggunte]

The cpu is dual core....
it's Intel Celeron dual-core e3300 2,5...
Vlc didn't seems to solve the problem...
Other suggestions?

Yes, give a try to the free H264 decoder from DivX

( version 820-26, sometimes Google is a friend )

EDIT:

Intel Celeron E330 2,5 GHZ,Windows 7,32 bit
40gb Hard Drive

Hmmm, your PC is too weak for running Windows 7 properly IMHO,
also a 40GB HDD is not fast/big enough for the standards of today.

[Fizzzl3]

My first htpc (built ~ 6 years ago) had a Celeron dual-core, less powerful than the OP's. With a Radeon HD2400 video card, it would play 1080p just fine with cpu usage at less than 10%.

I dunno about current nVidia GPUs, is the OP's card DXVA capable?

Yes,is DXVA capable,i will make a video soon with the lag problem,so you can have a better perspective about it..

[FulciLives]

I have a much newer (although old by today's standards) Quad Core Intel and a low end but DXVA capable video card and even I have trouble with 1080p at times, especially on really big bitrate spikes. In other words I'm suggesting what others here have suggested ... you need a new computer. That CPU will not cut it and although a more powerful video card may help not every 1080p video out there is encoded to DXVA specifications.

The other option is to just stick to 720p video. I mean sure it is less resolution but 720p is still damn good and it scales really well to a 1080p monitor or HDTV and I suggest this because 720p video is MUCH easily for a computer to handle than 1080p video.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[jagabo]

Many files you might download use settings that are not DXVA compatible. Some people will crank up all the h.264 settings thinking it will improve the quality. But all they're doing is making headaches for people with hardware that doesn't support those settings.

[FulciLives]

Many files you might download use settings that are not DXVA compatible. Some people will crank up all the h.264 settings thinking it will improve the quality. But all they're doing is making headaches for people with hardware that doesn't support those settings.

This is so true and I find it out all the time LOL

This is why I think you sometimes need a really fast CPU and that a fast GPU (but "slow" CPU) is not always enough.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[jagabo]

Many files you might download use settings that are not DXVA compatible. Some people will crank up all the h.264 settings thinking it will improve the quality. But all they're doing is making headaches for people with hardware that doesn't support those settings.

This is so true and I find it out all the time LOL

This is why I think you sometimes need a really fast CPU and that a fast GPU (but "slow" CPU) is not always enough.

Yes, I've pretty much given up on DXVA. So many video don't play properly. It's just easier to live with CPU decoding on a fast CPU.

Note that some GPUs go beyond the bare minimum required for DXVA processing. So depending on which GPU you have you may have or or less problems.

[FulciLives]

My PS3 actually never has problems at all even when my computer does.

Case in point: I recently was watching a 1080p download and it was a movie with a robot that would occasionally have these POV shots, sort of like from the TERMINATOR movies, where you see what the robot is seeing. These would be red (like an infrared view) and would have all this technical data on screen. My computer would break up on any and all of these shots.

So I used tsMuxeR to make an M2TS file and copied it to the PS3's HDD and played it from there and I turned on the PS3's bitrate viewer and sure enough the bitrate would spike to 50Mbits during those shots. The PS3 though had no trouble viewing these though!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[jimpny22]

OP's PC spec is odd IMHO - he said 40G HDD - surely that's wrong?
Playing vids on a PC (dual core) is not satisfactory IMHO . . although sometimes it's OK it depends on the rate of change. An action video will require a powerful PC to play.
If OP can burn a DVD the best solution is to play it on a conventional TV/DVD and leave the PC for Editing/Burning.
all IMHO.

Next PC really should be quad-core and have 2x 1Tb HDDs