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What are your system specs? Are you playing it from a local hard drive, network server, flash drive, USB hard drive etc? I'll be home to test this in about an hour but I love tests!
HTPC 1 - AMD A8-3870K, ASRock A75M, Silverstone ML03B, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866, Crucial M4 64GB SSD
HTPC 2 - HP Stream Mini, 6GB Ram
unRAID 6 Server - Intel Celeron G1610, 20TB Storage
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Like butter!
I also have the full HD rip of the show that clip is taken from - either Planet Earth, Life, or Nature's Most Amazing Events, etc. One of those excellent BBC Earth docos.
I'm running:
AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.7-ish (slightly overclocked)
Sapphire HD6450
8GB G.Skill RAM @ 1333
Yeah, it's a bit much for an HTPC, but I also run encodes and downloads on it.
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3 of my 4 HTPC's played it no problem, smooth as butter. My Core2 Duo E4500 HTPC with an ATI R4350 graphics card did not like it, stuttered during playback. My Raspberry Pi with the latest Xbian build wouldn't even play it... it looked like it was trying to but I got tired and gave up on it.
HTPC 1 - AMD A8-3870K, ASRock A75M, Silverstone ML03B, Kingston HyperX 4GB DDR3 1866, Crucial M4 64GB SSD
HTPC 2 - HP Stream Mini, 6GB Ram
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My A6-PACK played it correctly.... like a nice pint being pored down into the glass....
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2012-09-02, 14:38
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-02, 14:38 by snowboarder33.)
Now I'm getting scarred. What media player are you guys using to play it?
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2012-09-02, 16:22
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-02, 16:23 by snowboarder33.)
Ok, this is odd. The dropped frame count is only when I start the file, Once the video begins, the dropped frame count is 26 and it ends at 26. However, if I start skipping around in the video, then the dropped frame count increases.
I tried playing Avatar in 1080p, and the same thing - it started with like 8 dropped frames, I watched it for about 30 minutes and the count didn't increase. However, when I started to skip around, then the count increased.
Also, when I was skipping randomly through the movie, the video would kinda stutter for a second once it resumed from the new sequence. Anyone know what is causing this problem?
Actually, I think this topic is better suited for the 'General Help & Support' board, I'll make a topic there instead.
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If you are happy with XBMC's playback quality leave it well enough alone... ;–) otherwise it'll drive you to the brink of insanity.
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My not very powerful at all Acer Revo 3700 managed to play that streamed wirelessly from my main pc without a dropped frame.