Hello everyone,
I've just bought the Asrock ION 330ht-bd (Dual Core Atom 330 + NVIDIA ION) for my first home media center. The OS is Windows 7 Home premium.
The problem is the HD video stuttering. First I've downloaded the Dharma beta 3 (as it is the latest build with hardware acceleration support), but when I tried to play a H264 HD movie, the stuttering was quite obvious, although the hardware acceleration was turned on (the same behavior is present with the option turned off). NOTE: regardless of the stuttering, the processor usage was only around 20%.
Then I found this a thread where it turns out that there is a bug in Dharma b3 which causes the stutter but which wasn't present in Dharma b2.
So, I clean installed the beta 2 but unfortunately, the problem was still there. The processor usage was still low though.
Next, I've tried the mpc-hc and then the PowerDVD only to find out the exact same problem with HD content.
And now the fun part:
Next, I've downloaded the VLC player. Surprisingly, the stutter was almost completely gone!
And the best part:
I've removed the Dharma build and installed the stable Camelot version with no hardware acceleration support and the behavior was like VLC playback - very little or no stutter.
So I'm very confused right now. Why is the old version with no hw support working better with HD playback? Why is mpc-hc stuttering and VLC not? Am I missing some codecs or drivers?
Thank you very much in advance.
I've just bought the Asrock ION 330ht-bd (Dual Core Atom 330 + NVIDIA ION) for my first home media center. The OS is Windows 7 Home premium.
The problem is the HD video stuttering. First I've downloaded the Dharma beta 3 (as it is the latest build with hardware acceleration support), but when I tried to play a H264 HD movie, the stuttering was quite obvious, although the hardware acceleration was turned on (the same behavior is present with the option turned off). NOTE: regardless of the stuttering, the processor usage was only around 20%.
Then I found this a thread where it turns out that there is a bug in Dharma b3 which causes the stutter but which wasn't present in Dharma b2.
So, I clean installed the beta 2 but unfortunately, the problem was still there. The processor usage was still low though.
Next, I've tried the mpc-hc and then the PowerDVD only to find out the exact same problem with HD content.
And now the fun part:
Next, I've downloaded the VLC player. Surprisingly, the stutter was almost completely gone!
And the best part:
I've removed the Dharma build and installed the stable Camelot version with no hardware acceleration support and the behavior was like VLC playback - very little or no stutter.
So I'm very confused right now. Why is the old version with no hw support working better with HD playback? Why is mpc-hc stuttering and VLC not? Am I missing some codecs or drivers?
Thank you very much in advance.
