Testing your computer playback performance

[allen2]

Here is the sample.

[Guest]

A/V both stutter, which is to be expected with mostly five-year-old hardware:

• Intel D955XBK Motherboard
  Intel Pentium D 930 dual core processor @ 3.00 GHz
  2 GB DDR2 @ 400 MHz, single channel
  PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5830
  Windows XP x64 SP2
  Media Player Classic Home Cinema v1.3.1748.0
  Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4006
  K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 5.8.0
  Desktop resolution: 1920x1440, 32-bit color @ 60 Hz

[allen2]

A/V both stutter, which is to be expected with mostly five-year-old hardware:

• Intel D955XBK Motherboard
  Intel Pentium D 930 dual core processor @ 3.00 GHz
  2 GB DDR2 @ 400 MHz, single channel
  PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 5830
  Windows XP x64 SP2
  Media Player Classic Home Cinema v1.3.1748.0
  Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4006
  K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 5.8.0
  Desktop resolution: 1920x1440, 32-bit color @ 60 Hz

Did you tried with lastest mplayer (it improve a little and multicore support is better handled)?

[Guest]

I don't update A/V components and codecs individually. It's too much work, and I'm no expert on configuring the pieces to work together properly.

When it's time to reinstall Windows, I install the latest codec pack bundle and forget about it.

[nitroshift]

No problems here at all.

Laptop specs:

CPU Intel Core i3 @ 2.16GHz

RAM 4GB DDR3

ATI Radeon HD5470

Windows 7 Enterprise x86

ffdshow

matroska splitter

bsplayer 2.10

PC is running it without a glitch either (specs in sig, running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, same combo of player / codecs).

[VideoRipper]

Hehehehe, worthless on my old hardware

Both A/V are stuttering, luckilly I never play 35Mbit streams

AMD Atlon 64 3400+
2.40GHz, 2.50GB 
NVidea GForce 6800, 128MB
Windows XP Pro SP3

Windows Media Player 11 (A/V stutter)
Haali Media Matroska Splitter v1.9.355.21
FFDShow tryouts rev 3207 (Jan 18, 2010)

VLC (only audio)

Greetz,

Peter.

[adrian2055]

VLC Media Player (which I rarely use): Scramled video, Audio ok

Smplayer: Video very slow (about a 75% decrease in speed), audio doesn't work

GOM Player: Video and Audio are present, but it plays slow (about a 50% decrease)

Realplayer: No Support for mkv files

PC Specs:

Acer Aspire 5532 Laptop (Manufactured Jan 2010)

Microsoft Windows Seven Home Premium Edition (32-Bit)

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz

512KB L2 Cache

3 GB Ram

160GB Hard Drive

15.6 Acer CineCrystyal LCD

ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics Card

Optiarc 8X DVD RW AD-7700S ATA Device

Atheros AR5B93 Wireless Network Adapter

Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

Realtek Card Reader

Realtek HD Audio Device

[John305]

Hi well since its a high def mkv It will make a difference what program you use to play it a net book can play mkv files fine. Vlc and other programs only use the CPU to decode the mkv so you can get poor performance. Where as zoom player power dvd , windows media player classic and others will use the gpu to play it giving much better performance.

[GrofLuigi]

Hi well since its a high def mkv It will make a difference what program you use to play it a net book can play mkv files fine. Vlc and other programs only use the CPU to decode the mkv so you can get poor performance. Where as zoom player power dvd , windows media player classic and others will use the gpu to play it giving much better performance.

Well, hopefully that's about to change.

GL

[adrian2055]

Tried it with my desktop and media player classic and it played without any problems.

Shuttle XPC SS30G2

Intel Pentium D 2.80GHz Dual Core Processor

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Graphics Adapter

32-Bit and 64-Bit Capability

2GB RAM (DDR2 PC2-6400)

640GB Internal Western Digital Sata Hard Drive (7200 RPM)

1TB External Western Digital Sata Hard Drive

Realtek AC'97 Audio

1MB L2 Cache

[Guest]

Which OS, adrian2055? And was it 32 or 64-bit? You have no problems yet I have better hardware...?

I recently swapped my motherboard to a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L due to the failure of the previous motherboard (listed above). Same components, same OS and software (no reinstall) results in slightly improved performance. Still stutters through audio and video, just not as badly.

[CoffeeFiend]

@5eraph: it all depends on which codec & player you're using to decode it with. Some drivers break video acceleration too (again, depends on the video card) and such. Which video renderer you use can also change things quite a bit. Some players are just crap too -- VLC is pretty much worthless for mostly everything HD (even when the CPU is not maxed).

Working fine on Win7 x64 with MPC-HC (E2160, Radeon 4670 and also: Athlon X2 4850e, Radeon 3200)

[adrian2055]

Which OS, adrian2055? And was it 32 or 64-bit? You have no problems yet I have better hardware...?

I recently swapped my motherboard to a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L due to the failure of the previous motherboard (listed above). Same components, same OS and software (no reinstall) results in slightly improved performance. Still stutters through audio and video, just not as badly.

5eraph, I'm running vista ultimate 32-bit retail version with sp2 installed. My motherboard (according to belarc advisor) is a Shuttle Inc FS30V10.

The codecs I have installed are:

AC3Filter 1.63b

Adobe Flash Player (Latest)

Adobe shockwave Player 11.5

CoreAVC Professional Edition 1.8

DivX Codec 7.2 (the free one)

X264 H.264/AVC Video Codec

Xvid 1.2.2

I will add that Media Player Classic Home Cinema is the only player that actually played this file or any other HD files smoothly. My other players (RealPlayer 11, Quicktime, VLC, Gom and SMPlayer) didn't work.

Edited July 4, 2010 by adrian2055