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    G73JH VLC 1080p Playback issue

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by famz, Mar 14, 2011.

  1. famz

    famz Notebook Enthusiast

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    This laptop should be powerful enough to play 1080p videos right? i've been trying to watch some anime and movies in 1080p but they all seem to lag and tear like crazy, am i wrong to think this laptop is THAT powerful?
     
    famz, Mar 14, 2011
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  2. BumbleBoner

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    Its either VLC or the files fault. Definitely not the G73's fault. Not in this universe.

    Try a different media player. Like MPC-HC or the tons of other free alternatives out there.
     
    BumbleBoner, Mar 14, 2011
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    CCCP+Media Player Classic here. I'm tearing 1080p videos up, no problem. VLC is poop, don't use it.
     
    KuroLionheart, Mar 14, 2011
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  4. BumbleBoner

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    Echoed.

    Doubly echoed, and proclaimed to every living soul on the planet.

    Using the latest SVN build of MPC-HC (2976) with CCCP and everything is butter smooth.
     
    BumbleBoner, Mar 14, 2011
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    VLC is for people who don't know how to install codecs.
     
    DCx, Mar 14, 2011
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  6. shdwmkr

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    My friend has a G73JH, he also has slow performance on 1080p movies.

    One thing could be that the screen is 1600x900, 900 is less than 1080 which could be part of the problem. The vid card might have to scale down each frame as it is rendered.

    Not sure if I am correct, but to me it makes sense since 1080 is the height of the frame in those 1080p videos, where 900 is the height of the G73JH monitor.
     
    shdwmkr, Mar 19, 2011
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  7. DCx

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    He's probably playing them while unplugged, or on power-saver.
     
    DCx, Mar 19, 2011
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    when playing 1080p MKV Anime, always use Media Player Classic. VLC sucks with MKV
     
    dark_nerd, Mar 19, 2011
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  9. slamming

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    I want to use MPC, but when i was playing around with the audio settings in order to get 5.1 coming out of my amp, i screwed something up and now everytime i play a video MPC changes my windows colour profile to basis, which is VERY annoying. How do i fix this, because ive had to use the standard windows media player, which i do not like.
     
    slamming, Mar 19, 2011
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    View-> Options-> Output-> Set to Haali's Renderer, EVR Custom, or madVR.

    and/or

    View-> Renderer-> Presentation-> make sure that "Disable desktop composition(Aero)" is not ticked.
     
    namaiki, Mar 19, 2011
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  11. Hedonist

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    Use CCCP and media player classic and say babye to problem. I used windows player and sometimes I get errors but try using MPC and it will be fixed.
     
    Hedonist, Mar 19, 2011
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  12. slamming

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    That fixed it! Except, now i get no sound? :(
     
    slamming, Mar 19, 2011
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  13. KuroLionheart

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    The screen has nothing to do with it. I have a 900p screen and I play everything beautifully and a lot of the time I play my stuff in a small window to multitask. Any issues he might have is purely software related.
     
    KuroLionheart, Mar 19, 2011
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  14. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    No sound from anything played through MPC-HC?
     
    namaiki, Mar 19, 2011
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    I use K-lite codec pack.. prefer it to CCC anytime. And yes Media Player Classic Homecinema.
     
    TomJG90, Mar 19, 2011
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    Can of worms when it comes to codec packs, but (from the standpoint of most technically literate elitists :p), K-Lite installs a ton of redundancies + craps up your registry entries.

    CCCP on the other hand is somewhat lighter, and less mega-packish. Coupled with the CodecTweakTool, the new Haali Splitter and you're set.

    On the other hand, you could buy CoreAVC 2.0 if you own an Nvidia card and have no issues with MKVs, used in conjunction with any player.

    Other free alternatives like Daum PotPlayer also work great. (with ffdshow installed.)

    Again we, collectively, stress. Its is not the fault of the G73. Its your player/codec configuration.
     
    BumbleBoner, Mar 19, 2011
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    Yeah, I'd avoid codec packs in general. FFDshow if you must, an MKV splitter ... *shrugs*
     
    DCx, Mar 19, 2011
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    One fix-around I've found is that I change the Power4Gear settings to High Performance.
     
    Voodoofreak, Mar 19, 2011
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  19. TallRed

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    Go to XBMC.org and download the windows version of XBMC... It doesn't use codecs as it is all built-in to the application...

    Totally smooth and fluid playback of all filetypes... It is also one hell of a sexy media system...
     
    TallRed, Mar 20, 2011
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  20. slamming

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    Yep, sound works on other players except MPC-HC.....
     
    slamming, Mar 20, 2011
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  21. namaiki

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    Try rename the MPC-HC.exe
     
    namaiki, Mar 20, 2011
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    No difference unfortunately. One thing to note is that when i skip to any part of the video, the sound is just static.. Otherwise, left untouched it is silent.
     
    slamming, Mar 20, 2011
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    namaiki, Mar 20, 2011
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