Media portal choppyness

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salival

29 posts

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#73315 11-Dec-2010 16:07

Hi guys,

Been watching this forum for a while and thought i'd build a media pc to use Media Portal with.. Working great.

The PC is not anything to write home about by any means but I can play any movie HD or not flawlessly using VLC, using mediaportal it's choppy with HD playback but normal divx or similar movies are fine..

Also, is it better to have the data you're playing in the media pc or is it okay over a 100mbit lan?

Amd Athlon XP 2000+
MSI MS-6570E MB
1gb ram
ATI 9600 agp video card

Any ideas?

sbiddle

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#415896 11-Dec-2010 16:09

Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

salival

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Geek

#415902 11-Dec-2010 16:26

sbiddle: Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

Yeah, I thought as much.. It's filling the gap for the moment till I can afford to upgrade it, just means I cant play anything HD

Cheers.

1gkar

722 posts

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#416198 12-Dec-2010 17:08

You can use "shift+!" to bring up the judder display during playback (inside MP). This can tell you if there is dropped frames, for a start. Also, what is your PC load during HD movie playback? Run MP in windowed mode & load your diagnostic tool -eg. Windows Task Manager, Process Explorer, etc.- to assist.

To answer you second bit, I use 100mbit for playback of my server files to my Mediaportal client PC in my bedroom.

Silverstone LC14 HTPC Case/Intel E4600 CPU/GA-EP35-DS3 MOBO/Asus EN9500GT graphics/2GB RAM/total 2TB HDD space/HVR-2200 & 2X 150MCE tuner cards/LG GGC-H20L BD Drive/MCE2005/Mediaportal/TVServer 1.1.0Final/LG 55"3D LED-TV/Denon AVR-1803 receiver/X1 projector

valtam

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#416263 12-Dec-2010 20:51

sbiddle: Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

+1 upgrade time

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salival

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#416292 12-Dec-2010 22:32

valtam:
sbiddle: Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

+1 upgrade time

Yeah, Dont I know this..

I just bought a cheap Sapphire HD5450 off trademe for $60, brand new in box.. Will try and find a decent duo 2ghz+ cpu and mb combo to replace it with..

Should have no issues then hopefully.

robbyp

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#416307 12-Dec-2010 23:20

salival:
valtam:
sbiddle: Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

+1 upgrade time

Yeah, Dont I know this..

I just bought a cheap Sapphire HD5450 off trademe for $60, brand new in box.. Will try and find a decent duo 2ghz+ cpu and mb combo to replace it with..

Should have no issues then hopefully.

You really need at least a dual core CPU at the minimum.

salival

29 posts

Geek

#416649 13-Dec-2010 17:49

robbyp:
salival:
valtam:
sbiddle: Your system spec is pretty low to be trying to run Media Portal.

+1 upgrade time

Yeah, Dont I know this..

I just bought a cheap Sapphire HD5450 off trademe for $60, brand new in box.. Will try and find a decent duo 2ghz+ cpu and mb combo to replace it with..

Should have no issues then hopefully.

You really need at least a dual core CPU at the minimum.

I actually thought they were dual core? Here's the one i'm looking at atleast:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Components/CPUs/Intel/auction-339888557.htm