Hi !
First of all, i would like to congratulate you for the new h264 core. It is indeed a SIGNIFICANT improvement that any free players on the internet like VLC, MPC, etc. should have (their developpers are not focusing on it lately, unfortunately !). It playes much better any FullHD h264 file on my slow 2.13 Ghz PC than other players do and it rarely reaches 100% CPU usage (normally 80-90 % at high load). But there is a problem that i'm going to describe in the next lines. I will refer only to the 1920*1080 h264 compressed files.
When playing high bitrate files (> 15Mbps, 25fps) in full screen mode the playbeck is not smooth, there are some very short pauses (once/3-5 sec.) - the motion is not fluent. The same happens with 30fps files (even at lower bitrates), or with FullHD MPEG2 files (my motherboard has hardware support for MPEG2 decoding). If i turn to 100% video size any file is played flawlessly (altough the difference between 100% video size and my screen size is very small - the 100% size image covers almost my entire 1920*1200 screen). I tried to use the overlay mode and it worked, but partially -
the motion is fluent, but slightly flickery, which is annoying. If i disable the 1080 i->p conversion it is even worse, the "stutter" is increasing. I also tried to enable/disable Vista Aero, but no change.
Is there a solution ?
Thanks.