playing 1920x1024 avi = slow!

[impmon2]

I just downloaded a high quality Naruto movie 3 in wide 1920x1024 and it seems all good for viewing in full on my new 19" widescreen monitor except I'm getting a pokey 2 frames per second playback. As I don't have HDDVD or bluray player yet, and my stand alone DVD player wouldn't be able to handle bigger than 720x480 so any idea how could I get a normal playback on my widescreen monitor?

3 hard drives totaling almost 1 TB, all on ATA133, DVD burner, 2.8GHz P4 overclocked to 3.06 (can go to 3.2GHz if needed), 2GB RAM, 7800GS video card. The 7800GS is probably one of the last best AGP video card before I'd need to completely replace my system to use PCI-e

[Forum Troll]

Do you have the proper codec required for the movie, and the latest version of the codec? Which software are you playing it with?

[gll99]

Are you using the latest Directx 9?

How is it encoded? See what Gspot says.

[jman98]

Check your AVI with Gspot. Almost certainly this was encoded with H.264 or X.264. Your video card won't be able to process this format, so that leaves it all up to the CPU. Your CPU isn't powerful enough to process this high a resolution of H.264/X.264 and give smooth playback. You will need at least a dual core CPU to play this back and have any chance of it being played smoothly. I don't know why so many people encode with H.264/X.264 at 1920x1024 because smooth playback is extremely challenging for most people.

[impmon2]

It is h.264 and from what other said over at Naruto forum, it seems a 2GHz dual core or better is needed for decent playback speed.

If I water it down with something like Xvid, would it play back at normal speed? Or should I start looking for a new CPU and mobo soon?

[anosis]

Your hardware should be more than capable to play the file. As soon as you are dealing with AVC/H.264 codecs it is a good practice to install Haali media splitter and CoreAVC h.264 decoder. Make sure the video has the correct extension for Haali to recognize it. Most container formats have either the ending .MKV or .MP4

I am not sure but your GPU might even hardware decode AVC. PowerDVD which usually comes bundled with either a DVD drive or the GFX card has an option to allow hardware decoding of this codec.

Also, KMPlayer is a good freeware media player as an alternative to Zoom Player or Classic Media Player. It has many advanced feature that allow you to tweak the player to pick the codec of your choice for each file.

Good luck

[impmon2]

It is AVI not mkv or mp4 and I don't think renaming the extension would work. Gspot says h.264 video and mp3 audio

I have CoreAVC and Haali media splitter

I tried the PowerDVD and the video ran a lot faster... a whopping 8 or 9 fps over using WMP but still slow like constipated snail. So the GPU may be a tad old to handle the video. It is NVidia 6200, 256MB I think.

Going to try KMPlayer

[jagabo]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3047
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2977

[impmon2]

Erm... I don't think those will fit AGP slot. >_< I didn't look really hard but my PC is about 4 years old and was top of the line back when it was new.

[jagabo]

My point was that you need a much better graphics card with h.264 decoding abilities to get smooth 1920x1080 h.264 decoding. A 3 GHz P4 will not be able to do it. You also need the right software.

Some more:

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2886
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/06/08/avivo_vs_purevideo_hd/