7MC Ghosting video, but another player is good

[robertkjr3d]

I've been using Windows Media Center on Windows 7 64-bit for years now. I have a cable card. It has bothered me, more on some TV programs than others. When playing video through 7MC, I'll get some ghosting/pixelization when the action heats up, or the camera moves very quickly.

However when I play one of these .wtv files with Daum's Pot Player, this does not happen. But, it is not nearly as convenient. Help me repair my 7MC.

I checked into reformatting the .wtv files into other formats and compressing on an automatic basis. But the issue there for me, that I could not find one that preserved the multi-channel audio. I realize that is not important to most people, but I treasure that TV and movies are still made in 5.1 or better.

 

[whs]

I would suspect that your graphics card cannot keep up with the action.

 

[robertkjr3d]

Well explain how that answer makes sense? Since this doesn't happen, as already explained, when playing the same TV shows with another player on the same machine. Or Blu-ray.

 

[whs]

Different programs have different system requirements and put a different load on the system. The WMC is a pretty fancy player and I could imagine that it need more muscle than a 'plain' player.

 

[robertkjr3d]

Hmm. Ok, I can buy that. When I get back home I'll report my graphics card. I have considered upgrading from time to time. But not for this reason.

 

[robertkjr3d]

Another thought: I never run WMC in it's intended 'Full-Screen' view with the 'locked' mouse. One huge gripe about 7-MC is that they have never updated for a multi-monitor setup. It will lock the mouse, as if that is all your doing with the computer. So I use a software called 'The Maxifier'. But in order to run it, I turn off part of 'Windows Aero' functions in order for it to work properly. So perhaps it still doesn't work properly, and I never figured that out. Oh well perhaps, WMC isn't the software I should be using to play my WMC recorded video at all. I just need to retrain the household with something else.