Poor performance MKV

Dave85

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My setup is a Gigabyte GA-E350N using the onboard graphics and 4GB of ram running windows 7.

I have tried CCCP codec pack and just standalone MPC. The problem is that it struggles with some of the larger MKV files. Seems to be anything above 9GB 1080p that is stutters and skips.
720p seems fine and so does mkvs of under 9GB even in 1080p.

Now is this just the limits of the board I have reached? Would it help to add a nice quite graphics card to offload most of the work to. As it seemed to be hitting 95% cpu load when it was stuttering.
If adding the graphics wont help Think it might be time to sell up and move onto more dedicated itx boards and add a cpu and graphics card. Any ideas?
 
I have the same problem on some of my 1080p MKV's, that's with an i5 @ 4ghz and hardware decoding on a GTX470, only seems to happen with XBMC (running in windows) or Windows Media Center, if I use the Live install it doesn't do it for some reason. You could give it a go, just slap it on a pen drive and boot from it.
 
Does the onboard graphics on the Gigabyte GA-E350N support hardware h264/x264 decoding? If so, do you have it enabled in the drivers?

If you have hardware decoding working properly the CPU should be almost idle during h264/x264 playback.
 
Everything I have read says its supported and silky smooth playback of mkv. Cant see anywhere to enable it in drivers so must be on by default. Will try the live cd version. Quite disappointing when something like this happens and you think wait my little 70 quid playon hd plays 19GB mkvs without an issue :(
 
Hmmm, sounds like the hardware decoding is not working then. What is your CPU usage like for 720p? My CPU doesn't go above 6% when playing a 19GB 1080p MKV via my Radeon 4870.

The setting might be labeled "Avivo", as that's the name of ATIs hardware decoding solution.

If you don't see that anywhere then just make sure you have all of the features enabled in the Video tab. I remember reading about the Avivo decoding being activated by turning on some of the other features (pulldown detection etc).
 
Old thread I know but I just picked up an e350n with onboard gpu/cpu for a HTPC system and had the same problem. Selected "enhanced video rendered" in the media player classic options and it works perfect :D
 
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