Fairly old spec PC playing 1080HD movies

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Hi guys just wanted abit of advice.


I have a old pc with a s939 2.2gig athlon 64 with 3gig of ram and a X1950 PRO AGP Card

Now the machine runs 720 HD material with no problems at all. However with 1080HD movies it stutters and loses audio sync.

The video runs fine for say 5 minutes then it starts lagging behind and the audio is ahead.


Is my machine simply too old and the hardware cant cope? or is it a software fault. I have tried using the coreavc decoder with KM player

This improved the performance abit compared to VLC player due to the hardware acceleration...

Thanks
 
I have a 2.0ghz athlon X2 3800 (running at 2.8ghz) 2gb, 8800GT. Plays 1080p stuff fine.

However I use a WD HDTV for playing films
 
CoreAVC only does hardware acceleration on recent nVidia cards that support CUDA. Can KMPlayer even use external filters?

If you want to play these files get a 9x00 or above and it'll take card of all the decoding using DXVA (number of decoders support this) or CUDA in CoreAVC.
 
Ahhh i see. so basicly my x1950 pro is just too old to support hd decoding.

Now i got to think if its worth persueing this gfx card upgrade or just buy a ps3 to stream my 1080 movies :o
 
I have a ps3 and it is incredible. But if you want to play downloaded content rather than blu ray, i would get a revo. It is the best option and can be had for £150 i think.

The ps3 can only play certain types of hd files and i find i have to re encode most of mine.
 
Snax said:
I have a ps3 and it is incredible. But if you want to play downloaded content rather than blu ray, i would get a revo. It is the best option and can be had for £150 i think.

The ps3 can only play certain types of hd files and i find i have to re encode most of mine.
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Indeed, I also gave up on the PS3, as it was a pain to not only navigate lots of media, but also to re-encode/re-container stuff just to play..

The WDTV Live will play anything and everything (including BR rips), can also be tweaked to be used as a download box etc.

The Revo, using XBMC for example is quite nice, easy to setup, and has a nice front end, and also plays everything known to man..
 
don't buy a console they are evil.

Unless you like gaming in upscaled 720p with unacceptable graphics and framerate drops in the teens....
 
Ye after years of using XBMC, I thought the PS3 would keep up with the file support but with HD support aswell...

Clearly this isnt the case. doesnt seem anything modern is as good as XBMC was :/
 
785g + a 45w X2 'e' AMD chip is a killer eco HTPC setup for peanuts.

PS3 is crap for anything bar BR or DVD, not versatile enough as an all in one.
 
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