How can I help out my pc to play hd dvd movies?

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

It gets pretty laggy in tons of actions shots from these movies.

Im guessing its a hardware instead of a software issue right?

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[Raven 10+ year member]

Your probably right about that.

If you're getting this off of actual HD-DVDs, it's probably the video card. What video card do you use, and what drivers are you using with it?

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

No they are already on my pc.

Its an x300

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Athlon 64 3000+

1 gig ram

Ill get the rest later.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

You have an HD DVD drive in your compy?!?

nG

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

You have an HD DVD drive in your compy?!?
nG

Nope.

But they are on my pc.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

well, are they still in mpeg2 or are they in a different codec?

hardware requirements will vary wildly depending on the codec and compression used

it's also a matter of getting your codecs setup correctly to use hardware decompression and overlay, vs. software decoding

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

No I dont believe they are mpeg2.

.mkv I believe

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

shut down all non essential programs. i can remember back in the days i had a decent computer but little ram, if i had alot of stuff runing while trying to watch a movie of any sorts i had problems.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

well, again that depends on what the problem is

could be a lack of ram, but could also be an insuffiient video card, insufficient hard disk speed, hard disk fragmentation, corrupted codecs, conflicting codecs, improper SETUP of the codecs, non-linear video streams, and, unless we're talking about some sort of 'legal' hd-dvd video download, there's certainly a chance that someone on the other end messed something up in the encoding process

my guess would be insufficient video card, bad encoding, just plain too slow of a computer, or a badly fragmented file if it's downloaded from bitorrent

open up the file with gspot, make sure you have all the codecs you need, and that they're all up to date, close other programs, run a 2 or 3 pass defrag overnight, and if it's still choppy, it's a hardware issue

for an easy fix, get rid of all of your codecs, and install VLC player, it's a media player with all of it's own codecs installed into itself. I hate it, honestly, but it's specifically written for hardware-accelerated HD playback, and will stream the video directly to your video card, and do an overlay by default.

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Yea I use vlc player for all video.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

well, that's the extent of free solutions

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Ha yea Ill see if I can get one of my computer savy buddies to tweak my system.

And btw, the movies in hd look amazing.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

ya, i watched that elephant's dream video in 1080, and it looked fantabulous

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Im finishing up the defrags now, hopefully that will help.