AFAIK, The .MKV's require a lot more CPU power to decode video than some of the older less effective codecs. Just real GPU's have functionality to accelerate the decoding of certain formats within their drivers that essentially a separate pipeline to the 3D rendering pipelines. a high bitrate .MKV can peg a core on my high end Phenom system if I disable the Video acceleration part of its GPU's
One solution would be to add a dedicated video decoder board into your system. Many laptops over the last few years have shipped with empty/ spare internal miniPCI-E ports on their motherboards. You can pick up suitable boards on ebay for as little as £15, and the trickiest part of their installation is figuring how to get into the laptop. So installation should not be too tricky for anybody with a bit of patience and manual dexterity. IMHO, Tasked with just outputting the raw video, and most of the CPU cycles needed for decoding offloaded to the decoder. Even a netbook should manage HD content without too much difficulty On May 6, 5:59 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: > @tribaljet > Yeah I read about fix as well, this happened on one of my mates PC's between > ffdshow and oblivion, he had set ffdshow so that it saw both the Game exe > and the launcher as exceptions to ffdshow but just to be a pain in the ass > it fucked up as soon as he went into the game, so we double checked it and > everything and yet it still was making the game audio stutter and etc no > matter what the settings were, so we uninstalled it and system restored it > to just before he installed ffdshow and voila!, It worked normally once > again. I've read the exact same thing online at least a dozen times, so just > to be on the safe side I wouldn't install ffdshow if you have any of the > above mentioned games. > > Mind you the whole adding the game to the ffdshow exceptions list does > generally work, just not all the time, adding oblivion to the ffdshow > exception list on my pc worked but yet when I added fallout 3 to it in the > exact same manner it did not work no matter what I tried, which once again > ment I had to do a system restore to before installing ffdshow. > > THEfog > > On 06/05/2010 1:48 PM, "tribaljet" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, and if I'm not mistaken, I've read a bit about issues > between ffdshow and Fallout 3, > and you could install ffdshow without any trouble as long as you went > to ffdshow audio decoder > config -> directshow control and added the exe files for those games > in the "Don't use ffdshow in:". > It might behave slightly different, depending on specific machine > specs, but seemed to solve any > issues pending. The only other problem I've seen was with Final > Fantasy VII, in which while installing > K-Lite you had to select Gabest as the avi splitter or the movies > would be in a very smooth slow-mo :) > > On May 6, 3:04 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote:> WARNING! If > you have either Morro... > > On 06/05/2010 11:48 AM, "DanielPK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > here's where to get many codecs :Dhttp:// > > www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm > > > <<<this is for K-lite...get the FULL version..install it, and during > > the installation...you'll b... > > -- > > INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- > INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- > INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
