Power DVD 10 high CPU usage

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borgia

101 posts

Master Geek

#62011 27-May-2010 19:32

I was wondering if anyone could shed some light in this. Playing Blu-Ray and ripped Blu-Ray iso's (of BLURAY I own) my cpu usgae on one of the two cores is maxed out and I get the occasional skip. I have enabled the hardware decoding option in the Power DVD menu (nVidia CUDA), and my graphics drivers are the latest. Freeview has low cpu usage. I just don't seem to be getting hardware decoding. I have reinstalled the software, and patched it up.

Does anyone else run this software? If so whats your cpu usage during bluray?

Cheers

Ivan

1gkar

722 posts

Ultimate Geek

#335638 27-May-2010 20:56

What are you using to test the CPU thread loads?

Are you sure you are using the PDVD10 codec for playback? Have you confirmed this with an app like GraphStudio?

If not, download & open. "file>render media file", this will set the file's playback video/audio/subs/renderer chain. If you have ffdshow installed, this could be overwriting the PDVD codec, as it sets it own merits during installation. One reason I prefer to install ffdshow manually.

I am assuming you are using W7 for HD playback. Not sure if this will work, but also try setting MCE?? to windowed mode & playback a problem file. In GraphStudio, "file>connect to remote graph". If there is something in the connect to box, then press connect. This also allow the codec chain to load for MCE playback. I use this with Mediaportal for codec diagnosing.

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borgia

101 posts

Master Geek

#336619 31-May-2010 15:06

Thanks, ill just uninstall ffdshow and see what happens. i just assumed PDVD would prioritise its own codec.

Cheers