I'm a windows 7 newbe. I've just put together a new media PC based on the Zotac GF9300-G-E running Windows 7 x64. I'm trying to play back video that an old Barton running on an nForce2 board was doing all right with, but the playback in WMP is extremely choppy. The video stream is h.264 at 960x540 and the audio is MP3 at 48K in an AVI container. So it's nothing exotic. It looks like the built in media players don't like ffdshow anymore (which was the first thing I tried). So I am trying to find out either hoe to fix the really poor playback or if I should be running a different player. If you are recommending a different player, I'm running the PC on a 50 inch set at 1080p so please keep usability in mind, things can get pretty small and hard to read from my couch
The usual tosh.....updated mobo drivers etc etc. Correct Codecs installed? I've never had a problem with ffdshow and Win7 WMP. Your IGP is cuda ready... Could be of help.
I updated drivers, that didn't help. I looked into the nVidia PureVideo thing, but it doesn't look like a download. Instead, they refer to resellers for systems or components. So I would guess this is something that is supposed to come with the drivers. The links don't use the built in Windows Media Player which seems to confirm what I read about it using a different system to decode video in Windows 7, and that it cannot be changed. I guess I will have to keep looking for a solution if I want to use WMP, or start looking for another player that will use DirectX, is streamlines, but doesn't hide functionality.
Using fddshow here with Win 7 no problems. I use Media Player Classic Home Cinema and fddshow. Tried installing CCCP? That's usually a one stop fix.
Media Player Classic Home Cinema did use ffdshow. But I found the player bundled with my media chassis seems to work rather well (and makes decent use of the bundled remote control). It may also be using ffdshow, but I haven't checked as I went on a media binge Just in case someone else stumbles across this thread, what I had read about Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player is that they use a built, fixed decoding path based off MFC rather than using the previous system of DirectShow filters. The fact that other players looks to be using ffdshow, but the built in windows ones do not would seem to confirm this. If I wanted to use the built in players, the 'fix' appears to be replacing some system files, but the solution seems to be a bit dodgy. So I'll just stick with what I have found to work
cccp or k-lite shouldn't be used with 7 really as there is alot of old **** included that causes issue, if you want a codec pack on 7 it should be Shark 007 + 64 bit extensions.
My system, that was working fine yesterday, now does this. (sig + win 7 pro) Windows update >< All video FLV, AVI, Mpeg had the same issue, both local and web based. Tried different player, no difference. Nvidia driver is uptodate, as are all other drivers. At first there wasn't even any sound. One report says it will settle down, that windows 7 just takes a while to stop pre-chaching and stuff..... Really narked, I was looking forward to watching a film ><
Just use VLC. Put the output to OpenGL or D3D rendering. No need any funky codec pack or anything, just uninstall them before installing VLC.
MPC with ffdshow is all you need. Really. CCCP was a nice idea back when things were a bit less fixed than they are now, but it's unnecessary and even gives issues as I found out on a number of XP systems a while ago. Don't even think about k-lite and similar junk. MPC-HC seems to have a lot of support for remotes and such as well.
I had some problems with MPC, for one, it did not work with my media center remote, and just did not function very well. I have not tried VLC though. I guess it will take a while for programmers to figure out the new media framework and code around it But for what I have been watching, Media Center has been working, and is actually a decent HTPC interface for video IMHO.
