2011-12-01, 04:59
First off.. sorry for asking the basic questions.
Second.. thanks in advance for any thorough conversation.
Ok, so I'm using http://gspot.headbands.com/ to attempt to narrow down some issues I'm having.
It seems XBMC has trouble with every other bluray rip I've done myself using makeMKV. My dvd rips work. I've even torrented various file types to do testing, and sure enough, they work.
I've tried running the files from various internal and external hard drives.. no difference. I've set up MPC as an external play, this helps but not quite 100% and its a little "clunky" compared to launching "in the box" for times that I don't need lossless bitstreaming.
The problem: that subtle frame skip/sluggish/hiccup/stutter that I've read and read about.
I've upgraded the video card to a radeon 6450.
So I'm sure its that I'm missing codecs.. or I have too many installed.
With gSpot I'm having trouble learning anything new.. except that I did notice that under gSpot's "list codec" panel pretty much anything to do with MPEG is red with means "problem".
So. Would anyone who is using XBMC to play makeMKV bluray rips care to discuss an elite set of codecs for optimum performance?
edit: might as well list some more specs; I'm running w7 64 bit on a quadcore Q6600 2.4ghz each core.. 4gb of ddr2 ram.. should be sufficient no?
I've also installed these codec packs: Combined Community Codec Pack, Shark 007, Windows 7-Codec Pack, and FFDshow (audio?)
whats weird is how almost all guides say to try VLC.. it seems to work much worse than xbmc and expecially MPC.. and Windows Media Player will now load anything but will not actually play anything I've tried (not much since I don't care about it).
Second.. thanks in advance for any thorough conversation.
Ok, so I'm using http://gspot.headbands.com/ to attempt to narrow down some issues I'm having.
It seems XBMC has trouble with every other bluray rip I've done myself using makeMKV. My dvd rips work. I've even torrented various file types to do testing, and sure enough, they work.
I've tried running the files from various internal and external hard drives.. no difference. I've set up MPC as an external play, this helps but not quite 100% and its a little "clunky" compared to launching "in the box" for times that I don't need lossless bitstreaming.
The problem: that subtle frame skip/sluggish/hiccup/stutter that I've read and read about.
I've upgraded the video card to a radeon 6450.
So I'm sure its that I'm missing codecs.. or I have too many installed.
With gSpot I'm having trouble learning anything new.. except that I did notice that under gSpot's "list codec" panel pretty much anything to do with MPEG is red with means "problem".
So. Would anyone who is using XBMC to play makeMKV bluray rips care to discuss an elite set of codecs for optimum performance?
edit: might as well list some more specs; I'm running w7 64 bit on a quadcore Q6600 2.4ghz each core.. 4gb of ddr2 ram.. should be sufficient no?
I've also installed these codec packs: Combined Community Codec Pack, Shark 007, Windows 7-Codec Pack, and FFDshow (audio?)
whats weird is how almost all guides say to try VLC.. it seems to work much worse than xbmc and expecially MPC.. and Windows Media Player will now load anything but will not actually play anything I've tried (not much since I don't care about it).