Sound Choppy

[aviwil]

I am playing a 30 GB m2ts blue ray movie - the picture is good - smooth , no choppy etc.
However the sound is very choppy - I've tried all the sound settings - is there something else I can try ?

[marfpilf]

Are you using an ATI video card? What is the source audio stream?

[aviwil]

Thanks marfpilf . I have Intel 965 integrated graphics - not the greatest , but usually OK with Splash Pro .
With the Audio stream , I've tried the different types DTS-HD , DTS , and AC3 - still the same .

[icsterm]

if the video file is 1080p, consider upgrading to an better video card. The CPU is the bottleneck. 30 gigs is blu-ray quality so your CPU should struggle.

[aviwil]

Well , I've found some interesting things on this :
1. I downloaded the latest Splash Lite 1.6 and it plays this OK , sound is smooth , and is set on DTS-HD .
Is this because of the 1.6 update ?
2. In Splash Pro , in Playback Options , turning off Audio Boost helps a lot . Turning off all the Picture-2 controls also helps , but Lite is still better .
3. What may be a handy feature , for users like me with underpowered laptops , would be in Splash Pro , to able to run it in Lite Mode or similar .

[Ghost]

Hi, your CPU model is little too low to comfortably play all high bitrate FUll HD videos.
Choppy sound is the result of low CPU resources for video decoding.
The only difference between Lite and PRO version may be a PGS support.
Do you use internal subtitles from m2ts file in PRO version?

You may try to disable PGS support and check if it helps.
To disable PGS support please close Splash PRO, open a config2.ini file (C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Mirillis)
and add at the very bottom the line below:
PGS=0

Start Splash PRO and check if it helps, remember to not open internal m2ts subtitles.
If it does not help you may try to Force video overlay (Settings/Video) with PGS support disabled.

[aviwil]

Thanks Ghost - I'll try that .
If I do want subtitles ( not always ) , I do use the internal m2ts subtitles .
Excuse my ignorance - what is PGS ?

[Ghost]

Thanks Ghost - I'll try that .
If I do want subtitles ( not always ) , I do use the internal m2ts subtitles .
Excuse my ignorance - what is PGS ?

PGS - Presentation Graphics Stream - it includes graphical subtitles used in m2ts.

[aviwil]

Thanks Ghost - sorry for late reply . I tried PGS=0 , and Force video overlay . It helped a little , but still appears to me that Lite is better for me with these big movies .
Another question - if I did upgrade to some more powerful laptop , what would be minimum for these True HD movies .
I know there are some laptops with 1920*1080 - would this have an influence ?
Also , assuming I have a powerful enough laptop , should there be a big difference in quality for the same movie as , say a 12GB .mkv , and one of these 30GB .m2ts ?