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Old 22nd September 2009, 14:23   #1  |  Link
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MPC homecine choppy video

I have a old crappy pc that has trouble playing HD (wmv) vids on my PC. Basically the video & audio are choppy. Is there anyway I can set mpc or ffdshow to dial down the processing of the video so its not choppy. I don't mind if the video quality is degraded, I just don't wanna have to re-encode the vids or buy a video card to watch them. So far I've went into ffdshow to adjust set to skip deblocking at 350ms & set drop framedelay to 1000. The video is near smooth but the audio is still very choppy. Any help or suggestions are very appreciated.


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Old 23rd September 2009, 17:39   #2  |  Link
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Integrated graphics with up to 64 MB allocated video memory
Try to set the renderer to "Overlay Mixer" under Options/Output.
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Old 25th September 2009, 09:01   #3  |  Link
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Thanks, the video isn't choppy at all anymore Any chance the audio can be made better too?
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Old 25th September 2009, 16:08   #4  |  Link
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What kind of audio output do you use?
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Old 26th September 2009, 02:45   #5  |  Link
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not sure what ya mean. crappy built-in sound card. Realtek 97 mixer/driver.
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Old 26th September 2009, 09:28   #6  |  Link
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I mean if you decode the sound to stereo, decode it to surround with your soundcard or if you use SPDIF?
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Old 26th September 2009, 14:42   #7  |  Link
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just stereo output.
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Old 26th September 2009, 14:59   #8  |  Link
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Have you tried using different decoders? Try to switch from the Windows decoder to ffdshow or vice versa.
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Old 26th September 2009, 16:22   #9  |  Link
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The audio is choppy with both windows decoder & ffdshow audio decoder. With ffdshow, I set the supported output to only 16 bit integer as it directs for slower PCs.

After some testing, I think the audio is fine, its the video still using too much processing power and bottlenecking the audio decoder. I think I've hit a wall here unless theres something else I can do to lower the video decoder's processioning needs.
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You're probably out of luck.

I'm surprised the Windows VC-1 decoder can't handle things.

I'd suggest updating to Windows Media Player 11, as this will give you the latest VC-1 decoder, which should be the fastest possible.

If this isn't enough, you're either going to have to re-encode to some other format, or buy a video card with DXVA.

Oh- what OS are you running?

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@bluelol

Hi!

I'd suggest that your system is both too "weak" and you have insufficient RAM...
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