Little HTPC Help Please

[crazyfool]

The option for DXVA is available in both. I agree it must be a software issue as if it can play back 10 mins of a blu ray without problems then I dont see why it cant all the time. Haven't tried mediaplayer classic yet. I'm going to play around with it for bit more tomorrow, then I'm going to go bacjk and try xp. If not then I'm out of ideas... thanks for all your help guys

[Skinleech]

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/7/17/

Very up-to-date site for MPC-HC builds, as the original MPC is not in development anymore. Yes, it's Russian but it's a Russian developed app now and it's perfectly safe.

You might want to try Haali media splitter along side it too as I've found even the new builds of MPC-HC don't like very file. You'll need to disable the appropriate internal filter (i.e. matroska) and set Haali as the preferred decider in the options\external filters menu.

Unless I'm playing physical disks, MPC-HC is my player of choice.

Good luck, and let us know how you get on.

[crazyfool]

Okay its looks like I have found a solution . I installed XP and tried playing a blu ray iso and I had the same stuttering. So I went into the bios and changed the cpu multiplier from auto to 9 and the FSB to 265 (if I go to 270 it wont boot). I then went back into XP and tried PowerDVD 9 and I had the same issue. Tried TMT3 and guess what... it works. According to various sources because my cpu only supports HT 1.0 there isn't enough bandwidth (i think???) so I get stuttering, increasing the fsb in turn increases the HT value to 1300 which seems to be almost enough for flawless playback, same reason why a Phenom would of solved the issue because it supports HT 3.0. Now honestly I have no idea what I just said (what the hell is HT lol) but after trawling the net looking at loads of threads this was the most common solution (and they all talked about HT???) and it seems to have worked for me too. Still get the occasional stutter though which I'm sure would be sorted if I could get the FSB to 270 but it just won't boot, you think a little more voltage would do the trick? Anyways thanks for all your help guys... 3 GPUS & 2 mothboards later and it turns out my problem was the CPU... whadaya know... fingers crossed this is it and it won't decide to stutter when I turn the pc back on later