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    HD videos stutter...why?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by manu08, Sep 15, 2007.

  1. manu08

    manu08 Notebook Geek

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    I've got a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook. It's got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 1.7GHz Processor TK-53 with 1GB DDR2 667MHz RAM. The graphics processor is nVIDIA GeForce Go 6150. I get rather choppy HD video playback. Like if I try to watch a movie trailer in HD the video playback is quite far from smooth-I generally use the Apple movie trailer website. Is this cause of a poor graphics processor that cannot handle HD videos? Or would increasing the RAM to 1.5GB/2GB solve it? The notebook is running Vista Home Premium btw.
     
    manu08, Sep 15, 2007
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    Ram might help a little bit, but probably not.
    Same with me, I get a little choppyness when there is a lot of movement in apple's trailers using Quicktime, but when I use WinDVD, there is absoulutly no choppyness, even on 1080p on a 1200*800 screen
     
    allan_huang, Sep 15, 2007
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  3. manu08

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    I saved the trailer & watched it through Windows Media Player-480p & 720p worked absolutely fine. 1080p was watchable but not perfect. Saving ever singe trailer isn't the most convenient ways of watching though. Watching them through Quicktime even after saving the trailer didn't work fine. Any ideas? Hardware not powerful enough or possibly poor video card drivers? Leaves me to wonder though, can people with Apple Macbooks watch these movie trailers in HD smoothly on their notebooks with an Intel GMA 950?
     
    manu08, Sep 16, 2007
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    I have XP, 1150, TL-52 so i suspect it is RAM. I have no problems and our hardware is close enough and you run Vista.
     
    powerpack, Sep 16, 2007
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    I know that computers with the nvidia chipset don't work well with iTunes videos. It only affects computers with SATA drives, which the dv6000 has. I would assume that iTunes is using Quicktime to render videos, so your problem may be related.

    nVidia blames Apple. Apple blames nVidia. Both have released updates to address the problem, but neither have completely corrected the problem.

    Download the latest version of iTunes and the nVidia chipset drivers.
     
    deputy963, Sep 17, 2007
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    I played 2 HD Samples (1080p) at my college computers (P4 2.8, 1GB Ram, integrated GPU, 3 years old), from the site you posted, and both played fine.
    With my C2D (1.83GHZ, X1700, 1GB Ram) i never tried to play online (and i can't right now because i left it at home) but downloading and playing from the HD i only had problem with GOM player; all others media players play fine.
     
    slowdive, Sep 17, 2007
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    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Well, quicktime is really bad at Decoding HD Movies. Try using CCCP+Mediaplayer Classic. If it's still choppy, get CoreAVC.
     
    fabarati, Sep 17, 2007
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    have you tried quicktime?
     
    plattnnum, Sep 18, 2007
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    that graphics card you have is really weak, i suspect it is the problem.
     
    nizzy1115, Sep 18, 2007
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    Does anyone have a notebook with same the graphics processor as mine & running Vista? Maybe someone like that would be able to help identify what exactly the problem might be; drivers, insufficient RAM, processor not being powerful enough or an incapable graphics processor.
     
    manu08, Sep 26, 2007
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    Did you read my post? Did you get the latest iTunes and drivers for you pc?

    I've personally witnessed this on a DV6000 with the same hardware and researched the problem. The iTunes/Nvidia chipset driver issue is well documented.
     
    deputy963, Sep 26, 2007
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    Yes I tried the drivers. Did not help.
    Finally I found a solution for this right here with the "Quicktime Alternative"-use Media Player Classic to stream the video-until drivers fix the issue properly I guess.
     
    manu08, Nov 22, 2007
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