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    xps 1340 stuttering hd video playback

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by stringman, Apr 6, 2009.

  1. stringman

    stringman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all
    I have an xps 1340 2.26ghz, 4gb Ram and the nvidia 9500.
    I have a 1080p blueray rip in a mkv format .

    Although I cant playback at 1080p on the laptop It should play back on my samsung 40" lcd.
    The connection is there and I can see the picture but it is stuttering all the time.

    I have the output switched to lcd only and I am using the latest version of VLC.

    even if i try to play it on the laptop only at 1280 x 800 it is still really stuttering.

    I would have though the laptop/gpu were powerful enough to play it so is it VLC causing the problem?
    any advice is appreciated

    Thanks
     
    stringman, Apr 6, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    stringman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for that.

    I have tried that and it does improve things but its still stuttering on the laptop(away from the tv at the moment)- not as bad as before but still bad enough not to watch it.
    I presume i should still be using vlc

    any other suggestions
     
    stringman, Apr 6, 2009
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    I look like you're short on memory, but not 100% sure or the video drivers
     
    mikeyhd, Apr 6, 2009
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    stringman Notebook Enthusiast

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    cant see that im short on memory -4gb
    graphics card should be ok..................isnt it?
     
    stringman, Apr 6, 2009
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    stringman Notebook Enthusiast

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    downloaded km player

    all sorted now!!

    cheers all
     
    stringman, Apr 7, 2009
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    KM Player is great! Very wise choice :)
     
    Convoluted, Apr 7, 2009
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    media player classic is good too. NOT the home cinema version.
     
    bumper_boy2000, Apr 7, 2009
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    Actually the home cinema version is the better one, since it is the only free player which offers GPU offloading of H.264 decoding by using DXVA:
    http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html

    You can decode H.264 content with zero CPU load.

    If you guys did understand more about players, you would know that the player doesn't matter in cases where the player use direct show filters. If you install good direct show filters, any directshow capable player will do. Even windows media player that comes with the OS.

    VLC is a great tool, but it's the worst mediplayer regarding stutter and performance. VLC is great since it can act as a HTTP streaming server, allows remote control etc. It's also portable and on any platform available. The downside is that platform depend acceleration functions are not used or not optimally used. Furthermore the libavcodec that decodes most of the video data for VLC and is bundled within this application is older and not as good as more recent compiles of the same source code such as the ffdshow-tryouts(-mt) directshow builds. Try to decode interlaced H.264 stuff with VLC for example.
     
    7oby, Apr 7, 2009
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