Requirements to play .ts files?

[turboregal]

Hey all,
My friend was recording a few HD movies the other night, and I wanted to see a few. He burnt me a dvd with a few .ts files on it. Anyways, I copied a few to my HD, I open them up in VLC, and they play CHOPPY. Here are the specs of my crappy computer...

2.9ghz Celeron D 345(I think) O/c'ed to ~3.2ghz
6600gt agp (One output going to cpu monitor, the other going to toshiba hdtv)
1 gb ram

Also, even when I pump out full 1920x1080 resolution to my HDTV, the picture still does not look very good (going through dvi->hdmi cable) Is there something wrong with the TV settings possibly? It looks pixelated in the blacks still, and just really grainy, not like real HD.

[m79]

Have you tried playing the files using HDTV pump (http://www.dvbportal.de/projects/hdtvpump/) with windows media player?
Acoording to that site the requirements are
Requirements for HDTV Playback

- Pentium III 700 or better
- HDTV capable MPEG codec
- Windows 2000 SP2 / Windows XP
- DirectX 9

[MrTroy]

I open them up in VLC, and they play CHOPPY. Here are the specs of my crappy computer...

2.9ghz Celeron D 345(I think) O/c'ed to ~3.2ghz
6600gt agp (One output going to cpu monitor, the other going to toshiba hdtv)
1 gb ramI have a 2.0Ghz. AMD Sempron + 512 MB RAM and an onboard video card and TS files play like a dream. Have you disabled "high quality audio resampling" in VLC? That option can cause choppiness when it's enabled.
It looks pixelated in the blacks still, and just really grainy, not like real HD.HD broadcasts tend to be really grainy. It's not a problem 'on your side'.

[turboregal]

Well when you look at them on the computer monitor (old vga piece) they look 10x better than on my hdtv....

[Center]

So I installed HDTVPump on my computer. I have WinDVD 7 on it. When I play a TS file with WMP10, it plays great (low CPU usage), but it doesn't seek at all. If I play it under zoomplayer, it seeks, but with about 20% higher cpu usage.

I would like to use WMP10 primarily, but why isn't it letting me seek through a ts file?

[crypto]

Hi Center,

to seek in WMP use the supplied plug-in. It's called Transport Stream Controls and has its own seekbar. I talked to MS people and they told me that WMP (incl. WMP11) does not allow seeking with a source filter in push mode. Unfortunately push mode is the key to smooth TS playback, especially when there are continuity errors in the stream.