Fullscreen lagging

[captcaptain]

I've tried many different players (divx, VLC, GOM Player, Media Player Classic, etc), but for every player, when ever I view a video in full screen, the video lags. The videos alternate between playing in really choppy images for a while to the video playing extremely fast for a couple of seconds. The audio is completely fine and streaming videos online/watching YouTube is no problem for me.

While some people believe their video issues can be solved by switching compatibility modes or that the lagging has to do with the player going into invisible mode (whatever it's called), I've tried the compatibility modes and disabling the invisible feature and the videos still lagged.

I got a new Lenovo T410 for college and my specs are: Windows 7 Professional x64, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz , 4.00 GB Memory, Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD for my graphics card.

Any ideas?

 

[zigzag3143]

I've tried many different players (divx, VLC, GOM Player, Media Player Classic, etc), but for every player, when ever I view a video in full screen, the video lags. The videos alternate between playing in really choppy images for a while to the video playing extremely fast for a couple of seconds. The audio is completely fine and streaming videos online/watching YouTube is no problem for me.

While some people believe their video issues can be solved by switching compatibility modes or that the lagging has to do with the player going into invisible mode (whatever it's called), I've tried the compatibility modes and disabling the invisible feature and the videos still lagged.

I got a new Lenovo T410 for college and my specs are: Windows 7 Professional x64, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz , 4.00 GB Memory, Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD for my graphics card.

Any ideas?

could be many things. You dont have tons of ram for 64 bit, networking, etc.

Are you viewing them from HD or download?

 

[captcaptain]

They are downloads.

 

[karlsnooks]

And just as an experiment,
Disable your anti-virus program.

If that doesn't give you satisfactory results, then
WIN key | type MSCONFIG | Enter key | Startup tab

Now uncheck everything not from microsoft or from your laptop company.

Don't panic, you can always come back and uncheck them.

I keep most things unchecked on my system.

 

[kucing13]

could be many process working behind when your video is played. you have 4gb ram which is not a question to me

 

[an4rew]

Most online video is flash content, so your having this problem when using onboard graphics.

Check if theres an update available or even better some modded video drivers.

 

[emerald08]

Are all your drivers up to date? Try using your Thinkvantage updates or go here to get a look at the latest updates available.

You may also want to check your Power Manager settings and make sure you're not operating in Battery Maximum Life. Some preset settings will throttle down the CPU. You can also go into BIOS (press F1 when the Thinkpad splash screen comes on when first booting) and check the Power Configuration settings there.

I'm using Power Source Optimized btw.

 

[karlsnooks]

CaptCaptain,

The easiest way to simply change your "Power Plan" is:

WIN + X key combo



I've included a snapshot showing where you change the power, although the display is rather intuitively obvious.

If you desire to change some of your "Power" setting, then
WIN key | type Power Options | Enter key

Oh yes, WIN key is the one with the funny-looking, wavy flag on it.

 

[usta]

Without a dedicated video card, the heavily encoded HD videos will shatter (especially, the 1080p).
Probably, you have the Intel GMA 950.

Try to download different videos from Youtube (you can use Keepvid) and play them (use different players, like VLC, GOM, MPC-HC).
Do all the videos shatter? This way, you can narrow down the problem.

 

[DaveWeb]

Same problem here...

I have exactly the same problem. Same system/config as you, except I run Win XP.

I've tried the latest video drivers. Didn't help.
I've tried battery/power mgmt settings. Didn't help.

I've noticed that the problem only starts when the video window reaches a certain size. If you stream the video without using full-screen, it's fine.

Slowly increasing the video-window (by dragging the corners) works fine, until a certain point, when the system starts to struggle and the lagging/skipping starts.

This is the same for DivX and Flash. And it happens on streamed videos from various websites. And it even happens on saved video files (not streamed).

Help anyone?

 

[usta]

That sounds like the system is having hard time to process large amount of data (decoding).
Try the offline content with different players that may try to use the GPU power (as mentioned above).
Give a try especially with MPC-HC: Media Player Classic - Home Cinema - Video Player
or Splash: Splash - Next Generation Player

 

[DaveWeb]

Thanks - using a player that is more efficient at decoding helped... a little. I can now watch video, but it's still not perfect.

So you are correct: the problem is the system being unable to process the decoding of the video, especially when having to blow up the picture to fullscreen.

I am very surprised at this though, because the T410 should be very powerful and actually, using the intel HD graphics, claims to greatly accelerate video of this kind.

So while the above work-around is a temporary solution, it's not a fix of the underlying problem.

Having looked around on the web it seems that there are other people with the intel HD graphics chipset who are having this problem. But nobody seems to have a real solution yet...

 

[usta]

2 other things matter: the type of video (is it HD or Full HD, and the compression method used) and the type of Intel HD graphics chip set. Some of them, like Intel GMA 950 or GMA 3150cannot handle the modern HD videos, while others like GMA 4500MHD can handle heavy videos pretty well.

 

[DaveWeb]

It's really any kind of video. Anything on YouTube, anything on similar sites, Flash, DivX, ... you name it.

I'm not sure what intel HD graphics chipset I've got.
My laptop is the standard Lenovo T410 (I don't have the optional Nvidia card... just the intel chipset):

Lenovo - Laptop computers - ThinkPad T Series - Technical Specifications

I'm just surprised that not more people are complaining about this. Maybe some work and some don't?

 

[usta]

Run this tool to see what kind of graphics you have: GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

 

[DaveWeb]

This is what the tool says (attached screenshot)

 

[usta]

Looks like T410 is using the integrated graphics chip that is combined in the Arrandale processor.
The good news is that this chip fully supports HW acceleration, so the solution is to try to reinstall the appropriate drivers.
Try first Lenovo support site.

 

[carlluiz]

This settings worked for me

I've tried many different players (divx, VLC, GOM Player, Media Player Classic, etc), but for every player, when ever I view a video in full screen, the video lags. The videos alternate between playing in really choppy images for a while to the video playing extremely fast for a couple of seconds. The audio is completely fine and streaming videos online/watching YouTube is no problem for me.

While some people believe their video issues can be solved by switching compatibility modes or that the lagging has to do with the player going into invisible mode (whatever it's called), I've tried the compatibility modes and disabling the invisible feature and the videos still lagged.

I got a new Lenovo T410 for college and my specs are: Windows 7 Professional x64, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz , 4.00 GB Memory, Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD for my graphics card.

Any ideas?

I have "K-Lite Codec Pack" installed...
Try this:
With "Media Player Classic" open, go to OPTIONS > REPRODUCTION > OUT
Video DirectShow -> Choice the first one => SYSTEM DEFAULT > Apply > OK
Close and reopen the "Media Player Classic"...
Done.