New m11x trouble playing 1080p video

Hey, I just received a new m11x r1 and as I am running through tests to make sure everything is okay, I have noticed that 1080p x264 stutters. I am running on the default drivers and it does it on both intel and nvidia graphics. Starcraft II also runs fine.

can my computer just not handle it or is there an issue somewhere??

Thanks!

 

What are you trying to play it with?

 

VLC and trying with windows media classic now. Still having issues with both.
WMC told me I needed to update directx runtime?

 

1080p movies are really CPU intensive so make sure your processor is overclocked.

 

No, not at all.

You have netbooks with discreet GPUs running 1080p no problem. No need to overclock. The last time that happened to me on my older laptop, it was a codec problem.

 

Yah it's overclocked.. I got it to work with media player classic + nvidia graphics, but i have read that it is possible on integrated as well. Also this is a 11gb bluray of avatar.. other HD movies seem to be okay

 

There are a lot of programs (Inc MPC-HC) which will accelerate H264 using the graphics card. I imagine currently you are not set up to do this.
I personally use the Combined Community Codec Pack CCCP (Google it). This comes packaged with MPC-HC and the FFDShow codecs. FFDShow supports DXVA video acceleration. You can go into the settings, enable this and also turn on some pretty powerful video improvement filters. I upscale everything to 1080p and it does make a nice difference along with a DeNoise filter and a Sharpen filter.

Here is how to set up DXVA using CCCP
Guide: Setting up Codecs using FFDShow - Media Browser Community Tracker

Here are some good settings for FFDShow for upscaling SD video to HD
FFDShow settings for divx/xvid - AVS Forum

Here is info about DXVA just using MPC-HC (Easy option – but without upscalling)
Hardware acceleration of HD movies using DXVA - Guides & Tutorials

 

i am hoping that 720p will be less intensive enough to run on the intel integrated chip.

 

I have no issues running 720p .264 on integrated video, 1080p hardly uses CPU at all with dedicated video. I suggest using the community-released video drivers if you are not already, I believe they enable hardware video acceleration. I am also using the latest version of VLC.

 

The above guides will all work with the integrated chip. 1080p will be fine as well.

As per my post but MPlayerClassic-HC is a more flexible program IMO.

 

Agreed. I however like VLC for it's play-anything-without-fussing ability. I still get some issues with CCP and MPC once in a while. Just a personal preference thing.

 

Can you upscale and apply filters to VLC? I might have a little look.

 

It really depends, programs like DivX web player that can handle .MKV files use only your CPU (newever versions are trying to implement the GPU) Now as for the programs mentioned about, VideoLAN or Media Classic they will play 1080p movies with ease because they both do use the GPU (VLC is only 32bit, WMC is 32 and 64 bit)

You shouldnt need to install any additional software to play movies with VLC, your doing something wrong in the process because VLC has grown its name due to its simplicity and compatiblity not due to its errors and problems, so you getting an error or VLC not playing something, I believe that to be something of a rare occurance and I believe it to be dependent upon your process of trial.

Although I used this on my old crap computer and see no use for it anymore, perhaps it may be just what you need in the R1
CoreAVC is a codec program (like VLC) that will run anything and run anything regardless of how crap your computer is (It uses CPU + GPU inconjunction)
http://www.http://corecodec.com/products/coreavc/

 

thanks that took care of it!