Topic by Eratyx

Posted: 12/7/2010 5:06 PM

Post subject: Viewing movie problems

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Eratyx

Active player (253)

Joined: 12/3/2008
Posts: 61

I know this isn't an encoding problem but I figured this forum would have the best advice here. I'm having problems watching the latest Mario 64 0 Stars run. Almost every other frame drops, causing VLC to pixelate and MPC to lag. My CPU/GPU can definitely handle this; I have dozens of other TASes that play correctly, and I also tested a very high-bitrate anime movie, which played perfectly.

I downloaded the latest MPC Home Cinema version and installed it, and just for kicks enabled DVXA too (moves decoding work to the GPU). With DVXA on or off, the problem persisted. I did not update VLC, but I suspect it would not change anything. I'm running an ASUS on Vista with an NVIDIA Geforce GT 120M (with Cuda), 2.0 GHz, and updated video card drivers. I am thoroughly baffled at this.

Posted: 12/7/2010 5:11 PM

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sgrunt

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Emulator Coder, Former player

Joined: 10/28/2007
Posts: 1360
Location: The dark horror in the back of your mind

You would be surprised at the effect updating VLC has - what version are you using? 1.1.5 plays back the movie fine here (so does mplayer). EDIT: See also this post.

Posted: 12/7/2010 5:47 PM

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Eratyx

Active player (253)

Joined: 12/3/2008
Posts: 61

I installed the Haali and ffdshow codecs and updated VLC from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5, and both players now display the movie correctly. Quite astounding. Thanks!

Posted: 12/7/2010 5:57 PM

Post subject: Re: Viewing movie problems

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Atma

Former player

Joined: 9/1/2005
Posts: 803

Eratyx wrote:

I downloaded the latest MPC Home Cinema

so you have 1.4.2752.0? I use mpc-hc, and had precisely 0 issues playing back that encode with dxva.

Posted: 12/7/2010 6:50 PM

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Eratyx

Active player (253)

Joined: 12/3/2008
Posts: 61

My version is 1.4.2744. Apparently the latest stable is 2499 and I couldn't find your version without googling it specifically.