Setup Wont Play 1080p files

Mayoor · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:29

Hi there my setup is struggling to play 1080p files. The playback is awful. It keeps stopping for a few seconds and then starts again.

Can someone help me Troubleshoot?

This is what I have.

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1 x Asus E45M1-I DELUXE AMD Hudson M1 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £129.98
1 x Plextor M2S 256GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (PX-256M2S) £119.99
1 x Impactics C3LH-B Mini-ITX Case - Black £84.98
1 x Impactics 130W AC-DC Power Supply Adapter £59.99
1 x GeIL Dragon 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Module (GD34GB1333C9SC) £17.99

Any help as always greatly appreciated.

stulid · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:32

All drivers installed?

Which player are you using to watch? Sometimes for example I find media player stutters but VLC player is perfect.

Mayoor · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:34

stulid said:
All drivers installed?

Which player are you using to watch? Sometimes for example I find media player stutters but VLC player is perfect.

I've been using VLC media player for everything but it still struggles. 720p is fine though. No issues there.

stulid · 2 Mar 2016 at 15:47

Can you try more ram? Nick a stick from another pc

flowrider99 · 2 Mar 2016 at 19:45

Are you streaming or is the video local to the player?

5960xNvidiaGamer · 2 Mar 2016 at 19:54

If you are trying to play videos online it could be down to your ISP? Run Memtest or windows built in one and check the memory and see if there is any faults.

lsg1r · 2 Mar 2016 at 21:51

it could be codec related, are you using the lav filters and is it setup to utilise the gpu?

Also how big are the 1080p files, bitrate ideally, but size and duration will do and what encoding is being used.

As a side note, my old x2 4200+ (which is actually slightly faster on the cpu side) couldn't manage all types of 1080p, it was fine with the older codecs and even h264 l3.1 but move it up to l4 and/or h265 and it would start to struggle

Mayoor · 2 Mar 2016 at 22:28

flowrider99 said:
Are you streaming or is the video local to the player?

Video is streaming from a box over a network. I will test the file locally and see if its the issue.

Mayoor · 2 Mar 2016 at 22:29

lsg1r said:
it could be codec related, are you using the lav filters and is it setup to utilise the gpu?

Also how big are the 1080p files, bitrate ideally, but size and duration will do and what encoding is being used.

As a side note, my old x2 4200+ (which is actually slightly faster on the cpu side) couldn't manage all types of 1080p, it was fine with the older codecs and even h264 l3.1 but move it up to l4 and/or h265 and it would start to struggle

This is what I need to do. Can you advise how to use the lav filters and utilise the GPU?

lsg1r · 3 Mar 2016 at 00:53

Mayoor said:
This is what I need to do. Can you advise how to use the lav filters and utilise the GPU?

Can't really advise on vlc as I don't actually use it.

I do however have mpc-hc installed as a backup but rarely if ever use it.
This uses lav filters so you can just follow this tutorial on setting it up to use gpu etc.

Having said that I normally use (yes I know I'm against the grain here) windows media player with shark007 codecs set to use lav filters where needed (win 10) pretty much 'recommended settings' with a few settings added to audio/subtitle settings and windows 10 MF splitter disabled (certain vids would only do audio). This works fine for me with everything I've thrown at it but obviously everyone is different.

Note: performance issues may arise on your cpu with some codec formats and file sizes like I mentioned earlier.

EDIT: you say from a box over network, what 'box' and how is it connecting because now you say that it could be buffering (I normally set mine to 60seconds if there's an option in the player). Are you streaming from a mapped/shared drive on another pc/nas or via a media server like plex? Could it be transcoding?