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[Bauer]

Is it possible play 1080p .mkv movies with 3000+ athlon and 1gb ram, 7600GT. 720p works fine but 1080p lags and i wondering if there is some settings? And nvidia purevideo not support .mkv? And about sounds, is it possible boost speakers bass with ac3filter? I have yamaha amplifier.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

I guess it's 1080p h264 video?
What h264 video decoder are you using? CoreAVC works best but 3000 might be a bit too slow anyway.

[Bauer]

I have coreavc and mpc and videos are x264.

[jman98]

Is it possible play 1080p .mkv movies with 3000+ athlon and 1gb ram, 7600GT. 720p works fine but 1080p lags and i wondering if there is some settings? And nvidia purevideo not support .mkv? And about sounds, is it possible boost speakers bass with ac3filter? I have yamaha amplifier.

Thanks.

Not really. No, nVidia PureVideo does NOT support MKV, which truly sucks! I have the AMD 3200+ CPU and it's basically worthless for any H.264/X.264 playback. The overhyped CoreAVC codec works like crap on my box. The only thing that makes H.264/X.264 watchable at all is VLC and if the file I'm playing is greater than 720p, I might as well forget it. It's mostly OK with a few small glitches on 720p. Your only hope to play 1080p MKV files is to buy a new dual core CPU and get one as fast as you can afford because since nVidia doesn't understand MKV containers, 100% of the decoding will be done by the CPU and the videocard GPU won't be used at all, so you need as fast a CPU as possible.

[edDV]

This article covers the hardware side fairly well.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2886&p=1

[t4ki0n]

jman98: It doesn't matter that the file is MKV. That is a container, not a video format. nVidia is a video decoder, not a container splitter. Two different things.

You need to download the Matroska Splitter to be able to view MKV files with any decoder.