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Is overclocking possible on your motherboard?
I think a simple 200mhz increase will elevate your problems. Btw how many processes are there running in the background? Maybe its time to go and trim some of them.
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2009-07-11, 19:15 | Link #25 |
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Wow, I didn't realize how much processor power softsubs used.
I never noticed with my old desktop because it played L-E's 720p release of Shion no Ou (with softsubs) without any problems whatsoever, and played 1080p Blu-ray rips without any issues either. The netbook though does not like softsubs at all, but plays unsubbed or hard-subbed 720p fine. It's kind of pointless for a screen resolution of 1024x600 to play 720p and higher so I just stick to 480p.
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2009-07-12, 13:40 | Link #26 | |
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I'd even be open to the idea of re-encoding files for my own use if it didn't take 5 hours+ for each step, and hit an error of some kind halfway through. I'm not sure if I built this system with overclocking in mind, or because I fried my last one (fan crapped out on me) and needed a cheap upgrade. Regardless, I'm not at a point where I would feel comfortable doing this since I can't afford a new computer when things go horribly wrong. I'm sure I could, but would prefer not to take the chance. |
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2009-07-12, 21:21 | Link #27 |
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Vagrant0, have you tried wiping the hard drive and reinstalling Windows? Old Windows installations will inevitably slow down. Large amounts of junk entries collect in the registry, storage gets glutted up with unnecessary programs and generally the OS just doesn't run well after a period of time.
I typically wipe my hard drive and reinstall Windows every six months, which keeps things running quite smoothly. How long on average does it take for Windows to start up? How long to shut down? Do you experience slowdown when doing other things besides playback of 720p and higher resolution video? I'd format and reinstall if I were you, and make sure to keep your hard drive defragged; do it at least once a week.
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@synaesthetic I'm a bit hesitant about doing a reformat currently since I am in the middle of some projects at the moment, and reformatting tends to always result in me losing something along the way, even when you save most of your stuff on a non-system drive. I do however defragment regularly, clean my registry frequently (Often manually double checking to make sure things are uninstalled completely, as well as running registry mechanic until it stops finding things to remove), and don't do much in the way of unstalling random temporary crap on my computer. But that's not to say that I probably wouldn't benefit from it, been awhile since I did it last. However, at the moment I'm tempted to think that it's more something to do with some limitation of my videocard, or some settings since I was noticing the same kind of stuttering within some players, while my system was not hitting 100%. I managed to get some better performance by turning off deinterlacing, skipping deblocking, and turning down the priority of the audio decoder to normal. This helps with the skipping, but the video still starts lagging behind more and more, so just setting a second delay on the audio isn't a solution. And I can manage to reduce some of this by preventing vorbissub from being loaded, so if I can manage to figure out how to make the soft subs less resource dependent, I might be onto something. Basically, I think I need to just figure out ways to undo all the neat extra stuff that h.264 allows. |
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When playing 720p video you don't need deinterlacing to be activated, use it only with interlaced video |
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2009-07-14, 12:15 | Link #31 |
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Is his processor less powerful than a single-core Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2.2GHz?
Because that was what my old desktop was, and it played 720p and 1080p without dropped frames or desynch problems, even with softsubs. And it did this well enough with room to spare to run Firefox, Pidgin and tons of background services without slowdown.
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2009-07-14, 13:01 | Link #32 |
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Were you using coreavc Because even some C2D can have problem with high bitrate H264 1080p video when using CCCP/FFMPEG.
An Athlon XP2500+ (should be equal to a P4@2.6GHz) can have problem playing a 720p video but an Athlon 64 X2 @ 1.8GHz (the same frequency) has absolutely no problem. The difference between generation of processor can be important. A C2DE6750@2GHz (underclocked) is faster at decompressing H264 than an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ at full power (2.5GHz) Test done using "mplayer -benchmark -nosound -vo null" with ASS activated in the config file. |
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Like I said before about my own P4-Xeon I haven't had problems and I also have a Pentium-M 1.6Ghz that plays all 720p softsubbed without problems. And while P4s are slower per clock in general, they're pretty fast with SSEx. Quote:
YV12 / YUV2 / etc -> RGB (Vagrant0 if you want to play around with these, it's in CCCP's Video decoder configuration applet under Output) .. and I guess you've tried "Reset Settings" and "Re-register filters" already for the CCCP config applet? other than that I'm out of ideas and hope you get it resolved |
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Also, I don't think it's a good comparison using your P4-Xeon. Those CPUs are mainly marketed towards servers and is quite a bit more powerful than the ones sold at the consumer grade level. Quote:
If you still want to play 720p files, I think your best option is to get a new video card that supports CUDA in conjunction with CoreAVC. That way, CoreAVC can offload the computational workload to the video card. P.S. I don't think your system is "decent" either. It's borderline at best. |
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Worst case, I'd be open to any means of re-encoding files, provided that it didn't take 10+ hours of processing per file, and could figure out how to make it work. |
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2009-07-15, 10:01 | Link #36 |
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480p releases are actually getting less and less frequent, which is unfortunate for those who want to watch fansubs on less powerful machines.
I'd much rather watch a 480p release laying in bed with my netbook than sit up at my computer desk in the living room to watch 1080p blu-ray rips. I hope that groups keep releasing 480p h.264 files, but I have my doubts. While most groups still do release standard-def xvid... not too many release 480p h.264.
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Vagrant0 > If you still have smplayer : Go to Options->preferences then performance and put loop filter to "skip always". To deactive ASS styling Subtitle -> use SSA/ASS Library. If that don't help go to options -> view logs -> mplayer, possible that something present in the log will be useful. When your looking at the task manager, do you have one of the core at 100% or the load is shared between the two or one core is at 85% and the other do "nothing". |
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2009-07-15, 15:05 | Link #38 | ||
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http://a.scarywater.net/ayako/%5BAya...5D.mkv.torrent If that file starts stuttering too, then we may reasonably conclude that something related to h.264 might be the main problem. If it plays fine, you may have to recognize that your computer can't handle high resolution video files. Quote:
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lol yeah, this little P-M bugger can really perform. But still.. at only 1.6Ghz and slower ram, it's probably equivalent to his system or slightly slower. (it's definitely slower in SSE2 ops than P4). Note this is the old post-PIII based Pentium-M, not one based on the Core architecture. |
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2009-07-16, 04:58 | Link #40 | |
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I'm not saying that resolution is not part of the problem, just that there might be multiple things which are compounding over a few minutes of play time. I don't deny that I'm trying to stuff 10 lbs. of video in a 9 lbs. bag, (or even a 7.5 lbs bag). However, there should still be some way to reduce the impact of what I'm lacking. I've already managed to make up for about 90% of the problem, it's that remaining 10% that's proving to be a bit tricky. @Miles Teg I'm reinstalling it now, will edit the post once I've had a chance to test. *edit* it's worse all around in SMS player now. Even the file arenine suggested is dropping frames constantly (even though I've tried disabling this). CPU usage is also shooting up to 100% with Haruhi and 30% for arenine's file. Last edited by Vagrant0; 2009-07-16 at 06:02. |
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