[nfs924]

Anyone have any luck getting dvr-ms files to play smoothly?

My HTPC has a quad-core i7 (2820qm), running Windows 7, and is wired to the same router as the NAS. In WMC, I can get dvr-ms files to playback perfectly. However, in XBMC; it stutters often (looks as if the file is playing at 10-15 fps).

I currently have the render mode set to DXVA2. I've tried messing around with the refresh rate options, but I've had no luck.

Anyone have any tips/tweaks I can make to XBMC? I love XBMC, just wish I could completely get off WMC. I'm assuming Microsoft hasn't really given us much to work with (is the container open source at all?).

For a long time I was going the encoding route, but that's starting to use up a lot of my computer time. Personally, I'd rather keep the files in their native formats/quality (file sizes is not a concern for me).

Thanks in advance for any help

[nfs924]

Found a quick way to encode the file to MKV without taking hours.

Disregard my message

[Lostcase]

nfs924, mind sharing? Thanks.

[nfs924]

I use VideoRedo TVSuite to edit the commercials out of my recordings.

Instead of saving the edited recording as .dvr-ms, I saved it as MKV (mpeg-2). No major re-code is required because the source is mpeg-2.