2010-12-31, 19:34
Quote:I've been following this topic for a while now with great interest.
Recently I acquired an ASRock 100HT-BD. It has a Core I3 processor and uses the Mobile Intel HM55-Express chipset.
I was hoping to have enough CPU horsepower to just go with software decoding, but evidently that's not the case, which is how I ended up with your excellent guide.
Sadly, I can't get perfect playback on a lot of files.
* UPDATE *
Isn't it typical when you spend days/weeks trying to solve a problem, finally writing a post about it, and then stumbling across the solution an hour later?
As it turns out, I had to make a couple of changes to my 100HT setup. Here's what I've observed. This is based on a setup as described in the original post.
* Disabling hyperthreading in the BIOS seemed to make things smoother
* I had to overclock the GPU in the ASRock BIOS to give it sufficient capability
* All Full-Bluray movies I have play without a glitch - provided I don't search too much. If I do, CPU/VPU usage goes up by such an amount it keeps dropping frames and never gets to settle down again for some reason. If I then stop the movie and load another, even this one skips. Driver issue perhaps? I'm hoping this will clear up in the near future.
I still can't play BBC Interlaced material, but that's due to FFMPEG from what I understand. Everything else plays like on my ION system.
BTW Alan, your patch made all the difference. Thanks for that!
I'll keep an eye on this forum in case you discover more interesting stuff.
Best regards,
R-D