MPC homecine choppy video

[bluelol]

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.


AMD Athlon(B) XP 3200+ 2.20 GHz
1GB RAM
Integrated graphics with up to 64 MB allocated video memory
Media Player Classic Home Cinema 1.2.1008.0

[me7]

Integrated graphics with up to 64 MB allocated video memory

Try to set the renderer to "Overlay Mixer" under Options/Output.

[bluelol]

Thanks, the video isn't choppy at all anymore :) Any chance the audio can be made better too?

[me7]

What kind of audio output do you use?

[bluelol]

not sure what ya mean. crappy built-in sound card. Realtek 97 mixer/driver.

[me7]

I mean if you decode the sound to stereo, decode it to surround with your soundcard or if you use SPDIF?

[bluelol]

just stereo output.

[me7]

Have you tried using different decoders? Try to switch from the Windows decoder to ffdshow or vice versa.

[bluelol]

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.

[Blue_MiSfit]

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?

~MiSfit

[setarip_old]

@bluelol

Hi!

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