Acer Revo R3610 and MKV playback

naudiz · 2 Oct 2010 at 21:37

I'm planning on getting one of these to replace my main PC, as it's used as a media centre at the moment. It will be playing files from a USB hard drive, as well as being used to watch iPlayer and will be running windows 7.

I've read a fair bit about hardware acceleration and stuttering, I just really want to know if the Revo running Windows 7 with VLC will be able to play my MKVs without and problems?

neil_g · 2 Oct 2010 at 21:44

im starting to wonder if i should have bought something else to be honest.

enigma27 · 2 Oct 2010 at 22:24

I have one and it plays back anything i through at it even 1080p files.

remember one thing... MKV is not a type of video compression its just a contaner.

also i use mediaportal to play my files and organise my library and have it rigged up in the frontroom for use as a media centre on my TV..

as long as you load the right codecs in windows then you should have no problems whatso ever.

Participant · 2 Oct 2010 at 22:26

neil_g said:
im starting to wonder if i should have bought something else to be honest.

The thing is awesome.

W7 + XMBC = a fantastic, versatile media player and HTPC.

neil_g · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:13

Robbie G said:
The thing is awesome.

W7 + XMBC = a fantastic, versatile media player and HTPC.

see the thread a little down from this one for my reasoning..

naudiz · 2 Oct 2010 at 23:15

All sounds good to me, far better than the 600watt behemoth I'm using at the moment

Naan_H · 3 Oct 2010 at 10:57

Its fantastic, plays mkvs and blu ray rips flawlessly, and takes next to no space at all!

Participant · 3 Oct 2010 at 11:03

neil_g said:
see the thread a little down from this one for my reasoning..

Read that thread but forgot it was you...it's a strange problem you're having. Maybe format and start again with linux (did it ship with a W7 recovery disk?).

deadite66 · 3 Oct 2010 at 11:11

i have a revo too with ubuntu + xbmc, stuck in another 1GB stick so i could up the video buffer size and it plays 720p/1080p great.

ntemples1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:52

I have a revo 3610 too, fantastic! I struggled away with a Popcorn Hour A200 for ages before I got the revo, I just stuck XBMC Live on it and away I went, brilliant!

Knubje · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:42

How strange. A friend of mine has one of these and has win 7 loaded on it. He is experiencing issues with 1080p playback. He gets about 10fps and it looks like someone has stuck it in 1/4 speed.

720p films work fine.

I've suggested he do a clean install as I noticed there were about 4 windows.old.001 folders in his C:\

I've heard that they work very well on the whole and shouldn't really experience any problems. Intel ATOM and Nvidia ION should do the trick!

fezster · 19 Nov 2010 at 15:51

Which codec is he using ? I spent a lot of time getting W7 working with a Revo 3610, and found the shark007 codec pack to make things much easier.

Use the MPC-HC decoder for hardware acceleration.

Ive now switched to xbmc / ubuntu, and find it all works so much more better, with minimum fiddling.