lag at playback of a 1080p hd movie file

[iprocs]

Hi


I got a noob question and hope some of you experts might help me.

I just wanted to watch a hd movie on my computer but after 10 sec of flawless playback the screen freezes and I got a framerate of 0,1 fps. (every 10 sec new frame/ sound seems to be ok)

The file I want to playback is a .mkv file

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1088 23.98fps [Video]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch [Audio]

I used K-Lite codec pack with mpc and ffshow to playback the file.
I also tried to play the file in vlc. But vlc shows a black screen and plays the sound of the movie ...

my pc has the following hardware

~2 GB Ram
AMD 64 +3200 processor
Radeon X1950Pro



My guess is that I miss some codecs (using Mega K-Lite Codec Pack I thought that wouldn't be the issue or that my processor is just to slow :/. However I can watch other hd videos :/

I used the search engine and google and found similar threads but no one could provide a conclusion that would fit my issue.

If you miss important information which might help to solve this problem just tell me so and I try to provide them.


thx for your help

~iprocs

[setarip_old]

Hi!I also tried to play the file in vlc. But vlc shows a black screen and plays the sound of the movie ...Sounds like the .MKV you created may be corrupt...

[iprocs]

Hi!Sounds like the .MKV you created may be corrupt...

Good point.

But I think we could execlude that because I can stop the movie on mpc jumpt to a random point in the video and then hit play and watch to coming 10 sec flawless. So the whole movie should be working just the playback does stuck after approximately 10 sec

[setarip_old]

after 10 sec of flawless playback the screen freezes and I got a framerate of 0,1 fps.That just sounds like one player is making a different/slightly better effort of playing a problematic/corrupt file.

Perhaps too obvious a question but, does your original source material play properly on your PC - or does it exhibit the same behavior as the .MKV you created?

[dat720]

It's also quite posible that the PC is just not upto playing the video, i have a Pentium D 3.2ghz here with 2.5gb ram and a 256mb ati hd2400pro and it just isn't upto playing back mkv's with vlc, mplayer, wmp

[iprocs]

I'm sry but actually I don't have the source file. (I got this file from a friend via local area network)


My pc's performance might be the issue although some other hd formats play flawlessly. But I haven't tested orginal blueray because I got no br drive :/

[Guest]

@iprocs

Read the forum rules, especially rule 6. You don't own the movie legitimately. Thread closed. Next time you'll be struck.

[Guest]

The original poster has clarified the rule 6 issue in a PM and things appear legit. So I re-open and bump this thread.

[JackSnap]

I have to admit, when trying to play 1920/1080p files on my pc, a 3.2GHZ, they just wont work,
try resizing the playing window in the first 10 secs to see if it will play as a tiny size, then look at your processor and disk usage and see if they are maxing out, i suspect it just cant handle it.
ive had real trouble with vlc on high res files, and more sucess with media player classic,

[iprocs]

Hi

I tried resizing the window but it seemed to have no effect and my cpu usage was indeed maximizing while playing the video (even in paused state)

However my friend visit me this weekend and we tried to watch the video on his laptop.
He got windows vista and intel core processor (2 times 1,83 ghz) the video played flawlessly on his machine. Sometimes the video stuck for about half an second but then went on flawlessy

I guess this solves the problem because I guess I just haven't got enough cpu power :/


gr33ts

[dat720]

I guess it does, the Intel Core 2's are vastly more powerful than Athlon 64..... there is just no comparison.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2007/xvid-1-1-2,403.html

Look at this page, it will give you a rough guide as to the difference between your processor and your buddie's core 2.....
The test encodes a 5min xvid file.
The AMD Athlon 64+ 3200 took 242 seconds
The Slowest Core 2 CPU the E4300 took 179 seconds, thats a pretty big difference there.
My poor little Pentium D does it in 209 seconds.... definetly time for a upgrade.

[iprocs]

thx for the confirmation

I'll consider whether to buy intel processors instead of amd.

[dat720]

The Core 2 Duo range of processor's whoop AMD's senseless, back in the day of the Athlon 64 3200+ they outperformed similary priced intel chips by a large margin, but the Core 2 architecture has it all over the AMD chips now, the Core 2's are both competitively priced and extremly powerful, if you are considering a budget upgrade i would be looking at the E8400, very good performaer at a very good price.

[iprocs]

yeah in the days I bought my processor amd and intel were pretty much competive.

But I heard that AMD skipped a miniaturization process and lost the monopole to intel. But I guess we are a bit off the topic now

[MysticE]

Hi

I tried resizing the window but it seemed to have no effect and my cpu usage was indeed maximizing while playing the video (even in paused state)

However my friend visit me this weekend and we tried to watch the video on his laptop.
He got windows vista and intel core processor (2 times 1,83 ghz) the video played flawlessly on his machine. Sometimes the video stuck for about half an second but then went on flawlessy

I guess this solves the problem because I guess I just haven't got enough cpu power :/


gr33ts

There's a bit more to it than that. Folks can praise Intel all day, but my lowly all AMD system handles these x264/mkv rips without skipping a beat (cpu usage hovers at about 35%). Playing smoothly in either VLC or my music player, JetAudio. If this is what you want AMD/ATI has the all-in-one HD solution. Cheap too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128090

Paired it up with an AMD X2 5000 BE that was $85 at the time and an Antec 380W Earthwatts PS that was $35 along with 2GB of OCZ memory and all is good. The HDMI out is too cool.

[dat720]

Not sating there is anything wrong with AMD, they can handle the task's people throw at them just fine, all im saying is, they can't hold a candle to the performance of the current Core2's, on a dollar for dollar basis the core2's are currently better than the AMD's, maybe when AMD's next line of CPU's come out it may change again, but the Core2 has been king for a year or 2 now!