Time to Upgrade! HD Movie Playback is killing my CPU
August 5th, 2016
I’m in need of your help now, looking for hardware. I’d like to keep most of my parts and only upgrade the CPU, motherboard, and ram. I’ll list the rest of my relevant hardware.
Antec ATX full tower case
600w Seasonic P/S
No soundcard (I was using the onboard soundcard)
BFGTech 7800 GTX OC 512mb PCIe V/C
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB Sata HDD
I’m interested in a Quad Core CPU. I’m looking at the Core 2 Quad and the Core i7 Intel CPU’s. The past 3 computers that I’ve built have all been AMD powered, and I think I want to go with Intel now. Here’s one that has an attractive price: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115055
As far as motherboards go, I am clueless. Please school me on a motherboard for these quad core processors. If you have any suggestions on what RAM I should get, and how much of it, please let me know. Thank you all!
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Original post:
I've been downloading movies onto my pc so that I can stream them to my PS3 and watch them on my HDTV. The PS3 is on a wireless N network, so it can handle a ton of bandwidth. Smaller sized HD movies view just fine on my PS3, but today I tried to watch Se7en (1080p.DTS.x264.dxva-EuReKA.mkv) and I noticed that it was choppy on my TV. It's an 11gigabyte rip. I checked the wireless connection and it was fine, so when I went to my PC, I saw that the CPU load was at 100%. I tried to watch the video directly from my PC (using vlc player) and it still wasn't happening. The video is choppy, but the sound is fine.
PC specs: AMD 64 4000+, 2 gigs of ram, GeForce 7800 GTX OC (512mb), Samsung Spinpoint 1TB hard drive. Oh, and I'm running Windows 7 RC.
Does anyone have any ideas? I wonder if anyone has gone through this themselves. I installed Nvidia PureVideo, but Mediaplayer can't open MKV files and I don't think PureVideo supports VLC player.
Thanks in advance.
I installed the combined comunity codec pack
installed coreAVC pro and watch my HD movies with media player classic (included in the cccp)
plays great
Your processor is just too slow. It’s as simple as that. 2.4GHz isn’t enough for full HD video, and there’s not really anything you can do about that without upgrading or downloading lower quality rips.
Thanks for your help. I’ll at least try the community codec pack and coreAVC. If that doesn’t work, like atmoicphreak suggested, it’s time to upgrade.
I installed the combined comunity codec pack
installed coreAVC pro and watch my HD movies with media player classic (included in the cccp)
plays great
Well, what can I say? I tried what you suggested , but it’s now official, my computer is a paperweight. I will keep these files, but I’m looking into new hardware now. Thanks again for your help.
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the Q8200 should be ok, I recently purchased a Q8300 (budget constraints prevented anything better) and overclocked it out of the box to 3.4GHz (now running 3.0, don’t need faster myself) on an Asus P5Q board which I recommend, look on newegg for the P5Q series and you’ll find the flavor that suits you at a decent price.
Your processor is just too slow. It's as simple as that. 2.4GHz isn't enough for full HD video, and there's not really anything you can do about that without upgrading or downloading lower quality rips.
What kind of explanation is that. An AMD 4000+ can do HD videos like a breeze. By benchmarks, a AMD 3200+ with a 8400gs was used to decode 720p.
So you need to swap the video card, that’s all you need.
i’ll recommend a i7 920 processor + Asus P6t motherboard + 3x1GB RAM or higher
i believe that i7 is the future(well.. for sometime ) and get a decent GFX card like 8800 or higher
Davidtan,
My CPU is 100% utilized when watching or streaming full HD. Why do you think a new video card would do the trick? Do you think a new video card will do all the video processing, GPU instead of the CPU? According to nVidia, my 7800GTX should be able to do that…
My CPU is 100% utilized when watching or streaming full HD. Why do you think a new video card would do the trick? Do you think a new video card will do all the video processing, GPU instead of the CPU? According to nVidia, my 7800GTX should be able to do that...
the question is not directed to me but i would like to say that it is possible for the GPU to do all the video processing..
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_purevideo.html
only the recent cards are compatible with this technology..
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I tried purevideo and it didn’t help. I don’t think I was able to operate it correctly, because it was still the CPU that was being utilized.
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I tried purevideo and it didn't help. I don't think I was able to operate it correctly, because it was still the CPU that was being utilized.
With my elcheapo 8400gs on the old 3500+, CPU utilization was only 20%. Id didn’t install much, just the latest Forceware drivers and Klite mega codec pack.
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I tried purevideo and it didn't help. I don't think I was able to operate it correctly, because it was still the CPU that was being utilized.
7800 GTX should be compatible
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/11036/PureVideo_Product_Comparison.pdf
I was just going through all the steps that I had taken and I think I found something. Since I’m running Windows 7 64bit, I installed 64bit forceware drivers for Windows 7. The drivers are in the program files directory. When I installed purevideo, it installed it to the “program files(x86)” directory. There are 2 “program files” directories. The 64bit one, and the x86 one. Do you think that because the forceware drivers are 64bit and the purevideo software being x86 would cause purevideo to not work correctly? I installed the CCCP, not the Klite mega pack.
Not sure mate, I’m using Vista Ultimate SP1 X64 with standard forceware 64bit drivers.
I suspect that its your OS.
I’ll give it a couple of days. If I can’t resolve it with this OS and it may not be my hardware, I will format the partition with Win7 and install Vista. Thank you for your help.
I am sure that Purevideo is quite old now. nVidia stopped selling it/updating it. The newer drivers are meant to provide decoding assistance.
You would need Media Player Classic Home Cinema, not just Media Player Classic or KMPlayer to enable GPU assisted decoding, IF your video card can do it and I doubt it can fully support everything, then that might help out. Using the GPU does significantly lower the CPU usage.
The CCCP comes with Media Player Classic Home Cinema. I tried it and still, there was 100% load on my cpu. This might just be a Windows 7 thing. If I don’t figure it out in a few days, I’ll give it a shot in Vista before I buy hardware I guess.
try using the display stats on the view menu while a video is playing. It should show whether the GPU is being used. Some video has settings which cannot be decoded by hardware.
just try coreavc pro and acfilter with media player classic
my old piece of crap(laptop) with celeron processor plays it smoothly with that
Your processor is just too slow. It's as simple as that. 2.4GHz isn't enough for full HD video, and there's not really anything you can do about that without upgrading or downloading lower quality rips.What kind of explanation is that. An AMD 4000+ can do HD videos like a breeze. By benchmarks, a AMD 3200+ with a 8400gs was used to decode 720p.
So you need to swap the video card, that’s all you need.
A perfectly legitimate explanation. You in essence said exactly what I did – an upgrade of the video card is still an upgrade, and you still acknowledged that the current specs aren’t good enough.