Choppy Video using VLC to view multicast Mpeg4 stream

[slaiche]

I am having some problems with VLC viewing multicast mpeg4 streams. I am trying on a pc with athlon 64 x2 6000+, 2 gb ram, 512 mb geforce 7900 gt, and 150 gb free hd space, running Vista Ultimate. It does not appear to be pegging out the machince as it is only utilizing 30 - 40% cpu usage, but the video is very choppy. Are there any settings that I could tweak to smooth up the playback? Are there any other programs that could perform any better? Is Vista the problem? Please help.


Thanks,
Steven

[Krispy Kritter]

Sounds like a codec issue. What exact codec is being used?

[slaiche]

It is using h264 codec

[Krispy Kritter]

Then you will need to try ffdshow (which works for some people) or CoreAVC. Most playback issues are cpu power or codec related.

[Soopafresh]

Could also possibly be due to the network transmission errors

[slaiche]

Thanks for the tips. I am going to try out the ffdshow and/or careavc.

I don't really think that is network transmission errors. I work for the telco where i get my service, and have been monitoring my port. I dont see any errors, and have plenty of bandwidth. I can stream our sd channels with no problems at all. Also, the audio in the hd channels is perfect. The encoding of the hd is good too, as we have a few hd stb's that we are testing on, and they seem to be working just fine. I just dont have an hd tv at home yet, and have been wanting to watch on my pc.

Again, thanks for everything. I will post back my results.