Computer lags while playing 1080p video

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

I don’t understand this problem, but it’s really getting me mad. I can play online 1080p videos from Youtube or any other site, but when I try to play a video or movie from my own files in VLC, it lags. I have an ati 5870 so it can’t be my videocard, my CPU is a 3.4GHz so that’s fine as well if it has anything to do with it, and my moniter is 1080p DVI or HDMI, I use the DVI, are there any idea why it’s lagging?

#2

too many apps running?

#3

Check your CPU and GPU load during playback. The .264 decoding should be done by the GPU but it’s possible that it’s not set to. A 3.4GHz single core CPU can’t handle it alone. Also make sure you’re not doing anything HDD-intensive at the same time.

#4

Download Media Player Clasic Homecinema or CCCP

offtopic: damn firefox 4 is going to be nice.

#5

^That. VLC has given me trouble with big files many times.

#6

yeah media player classic is great for big files/1080p in general

#7

Thanks for the help, I’ll check it out when I’m home later today.

#8

VLC blows. Use something else.

#9

Sersoft, is that like a beta or demo of Firefox 4? Because it looks really nice. I wouldn’t mind testing it :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

ALL THIS HATE. I USE VLC AND LOVE IT.

But hey, if it’s the cause of your problem, drop it :stuck_out_tongue:

#11

try change the mode in vlc

#12

yep, and it works great :smiley:

link: https://www.mozilla.com/nb-NO/firefox/beta/

#13

I made a similar thread a long time ago, I overclocked my quadcore to 3.4 GHz and then it worked fine on VLC. Otherwise use Media Player Classic.

#14

It might sound weird but DivX Player does a good job when it comes to HD. MPC boosts the brightness a little and everything looks a bit washed out. There’s one rendering engine inside MPC that corrects this problem but it’s slow as hell (don’t remember its name right now). Try comparing video quality/performance with DivX Player.

Of course unless they’ve changed it in some newer version but I was looking for an answer about 1-2 months ago and it was still there…

#15

Try Media Player Classic GPU Accelerated Version (mpc_gpu).
https://www.lowfps.com/play-1080p-x264-smoothly-using-gpu-acceleration

It’s the only player that can play smoothly full blu-ray rip movie (40 GB ) on my computer… :retard:

#16

Thanks for the help, Media Player Classic ran it perfectly. I’ll be using that from now on, I didn’t realize that VLC wasn’t very good.

#17

VLC is still a great program that can play a wide varity of formats but as I said the last time this was posted

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