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Kashmir
9th January 2006, 18:51
I have an AMD 1.4 Ghz, and when I watch a HD video, it doesn't play it smoothly... Is there any good codec with higher decoding speeds or any other way to make it work better? And, also, in which resolution is it the best to watch it? 1280x720? 1280x1024?

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
Selur
9th January 2006, 19:25
try vlc
Kashmir
9th January 2006, 21:04
works a lot better on VLC.
Thanks mate!!!
spyce
9th January 2006, 22:17
or mplayer (http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-dev-CVS-050928.zip). strange handling however...
ChronoReverse
10th January 2006, 02:08
ffdshow coupled with a low-overhead player like Zoomplayer or mplayer2 (every Windows has this already, just type it into Run...) is pretty good too.

However, lowest overhead is using mplayer.
kurt
10th January 2006, 02:12
or have a look in this thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104277
--> CoreAVC should be the fastest decoder available ...
Revgen
10th January 2006, 02:23
or have a look in this thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104277
--> CoreAVC should be the fastest decoder available ...

It decodes H.264/AVC, not Xvid.
kotrtim
10th January 2006, 05:32
It decodes H.264/AVC, not Xvid.

No, It decodes XviD as MPEG-4 ASP, in mp4 container
Donno about XviD in avi
Ice =A=
10th January 2006, 05:36
Interesting! Is there an easy way to put an XviD- or DivX-file into an mp4 container? Any guess as to what the speed improvement with CoreAVC would be?
kurt
10th January 2006, 10:44
Interesting! Is there an easy way to put an XviD- or DivX-file into an mp4 container? Any guess as to what the speed improvement with CoreAVC would be?
dunno if there is any speed improvement - in my previous post I overlooked that we are in XviD forum :o

with MeGUI for example you can easily create XviD files in mp4 container ...
CruNcher
10th January 2006, 13:31
No, It decodes XviD as MPEG-4 ASP, in mp4 container
Donno about XviD in avi


Neither the Tcpmp Player + Plugin nor the Dshow CoreAVC filter decode ASP in .mp4 in both cases libavcodec gets used and the TCPMP plugin for ffmpeg is still not low level optimized for win32 so it's slower then libavcodec in ffdshow for example.
kotrtim
11th January 2006, 11:18
If you have Linux
Mplayer Linux, Xine Player play with 1-3% CPU usage for a 720x480 Xvid+Mp3 avi which I can't possibly achieve with windows, VLC is the best I can find for windows, with 8% CPU usage, P4 1.4 GHz....

You can download Linux for free....... if you have broadband.....

I'll try playing AVC with Linux
eb
12th January 2006, 03:42
Try to playback below sample Xvid1280x720 16:9 with VLC or MPlayer
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=765958#post765958

eb