Terrible performance on video playback

[Tangrata]

Hello,
I recently upgraded to a Windows 7 - 7077, 64 bit

I managed to install almost all drivers.
I also installed the newest drivers for my Nvidia Geforce 7300 SE

I am experiencing very very slow performance on all types of videos, encoded with different codecs.
Worst is on 720p and 1080p AVI, MKV, M2TS, MP4 etc

I tried most of the famous codecs. For now the best is Divx 7.1
I also tried with ffdshow2009, ac3, dts decoders;
also the recommended in this forum
Win7codecs_v107 + Win7x64Components_v115
still the same thing.

I tried most of the famous players.

It is slightly better if I decrease the desktop to 800x600

So on some videos I experience 2.7 fps !!!
That is 1 of 10 frames displayed.
Even the old style 1000kbs videos appear on frames

On xp all these were running fluently.
On my laptop (a much weaker machine) with Windows 7 - 32bit they also run better (although not as good as with XP)

I tried almost everything. And even with the fastest codec and the fastest player, and the worst settings, the performance is terrible.

Any suggestions will be wellcome.

Im feeling I ll have to go back to XP for the next 1-2 years ...

 

[Tangrata]

Now I switched the Windows Theme to - Windows classic, which simplified a lot of the displayed windows. (previous was an aero theme)

This gave a lot to the performance.
Still all 720 and 1080p videos are on frames - around 12-20 fps, depending of the screen resolution and the codec.


I guess it would be great for future implementation a full screen program to turn off the aero themes. Just as an option for slower videocards.

 

[Mark]

I would honestly say that you need a better graphics card, your would hardly manage to run Areo with Low end and very old Graphics card, never mind anything else. I would suggest a good midrange card like the Nvidia 9600GT 1Gig and another 2 Gigs of Ram and I can guarantee you will see a huge improvement.

 

[baarod]

No one else is seeing this at all. Perform a completely clean install of certified build 7000 from Microsoft (not bittorrent), use the default video driver and codecs. Try to play your video. If for some reason your video card is not detected, use only drivers shown to be for Windows 7 (preferred) or Vista from Microsoft Update Catalog. Again, do not install codec packs. None are designed for Windows 7. Many are just very poorly engineered (AKA hacks).

If with a known build, completely cleanly installed, and sensible drivers and no codec packs installed you are still seeing this please report back. Otherwise create system restore points before each thing you add so when you find the 3rd-party culprit you can back out the change.

 

[baarod]

I would honestly say that you need a better graphics card, your would hardly manage to run Areo with Low end and very old Graphics card, never mind anything else. I would suggest a good midrange card like the Nvidia 9600GT 1Gig and another 2 Gigs of Ram and I can guarantee you will see a huge improvement.

I've got a 7200 in this junk box over here that runs h.264 720p without a problem. He's got codec cruft and I fear some of that's irreversible.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I had the same issue with some AVI files juttering. I had installed shark007 codecs for windows 7 then set the configuration for AVI to allow shark007 (only 2 options available, 1 was windows default) to render movies rather than it's current default render. The same can be applied to MKV & other formats. This solved the problem & now all AVI play effortlessly even on my cr@ppy rig

Hope this helps

 

[murphy25]

i dont mean to hijack the thread but just a quick question regarding graphics cards im using a 7900gt but i have a 8500gt card and want to swap them over is it just a matter of removing the drivers shutting down swapping the cards and reboot?

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi murphy25,

You should just be able to swap them over. Windows will automatically detect that a new card is inserted when booting. It will start in 'Standard VGA' but will connect to Windows Update to install the new drivers.

Hope this helps

 

[murphy25]

thanks orbital.
with rc still 2 weeks away i needed something to mess around with

 

[Orbital Shark]

HAHA, Don't we all

 

[murphy25]

didnt like that 8500gt at all everything went ok installed the drivers asked me to restart and then blue screened on me i swapped them back for now so either my computer is like me old and stuck in its ways or something maybe wrong with the card ill try again when i do a clean install of the rc, i did however add a 30gb hard drive i had hanging around ok i forgot to remove the jumper to make it a slave the first time but alls well that ends well hahahaha

 

[Orbital Shark]

haha, at least your still up and running

 

[murphy25]

it was a good job i opened it up as well i aint seen so much dust so gave it a good clean out and its purring again instead of roaring.lol

 

[bilbat]

The video playback issue was one of the great improvements, in my view, in moving from 7068 to 7077; I have an HVR-2250 in the box, and an HDHomeRun on the network - I finally get six tuners (3 QAM, 2 NTSC, & 1 ATSC) detected correctly, operating correctly, and, finally, giving me flawless, artifact-free HD, including DTS audio; my only complaint is that it now takes five seconds before getting a picture when switching from one tuner (not from one channel on the same tuner) to another; also, I've noticed that the ATI ninepointfour drivers will sometimes lose a monitor (of four) when returning from full-screen MC...

 

[baarod]

The video playback issue was one of the great improvements, in my view, in moving from 7068 to 7077; I have an HVR-2250 in the box, and an HDHomeRun on the network - I finally get six tuners (3 QAM, 2 NTSC, & 1 ATSC) detected correctly, operating correctly, and, finally, giving me flawless, artifact-free HD, including DTS audio; my only complaint is that it now takes five seconds before getting a picture when switching from one tuner (not from one channel on the same tuner) to another; also, I've noticed that the ATI ninepointfour drivers will sometimes lose a monitor (of four) when returning from full-screen MC...

Source switching timeout is a configurable property with DirectShow in 7. Now I just have to remember where to find it...

 

[12eason]

Hello,
I recently upgraded to a Windows 7 - 7077, 64 bit

I managed to install almost all drivers.
I also installed the newest drivers for my Nvidia Geforce 7300 SE

I am experiencing very very slow performance on all types of videos, encoded with different codecs.
Worst is on 720p and 1080p AVI, MKV, M2TS, MP4 etc

I tried most of the famous codecs. For now the best is Divx 7.1
I also tried with ffdshow2009, ac3, dts decoders;
also the recommended in this forum
Win7codecs_v107 + Win7x64Components_v115
still the same thing.

I tried most of the famous players.

It is slightly better if I decrease the desktop to 800x600

So on some videos I experience 2.7 fps !!!
That is 1 of 10 frames displayed.
Even the old style 1000kbs videos appear on frames

On xp all these were running fluently.
On my laptop (a much weaker machine) with Windows 7 - 32bit they also run better (although not as good as with XP)

I tried almost everything. And even with the fastest codec and the fastest player, and the worst settings, the performance is terrible.

Any suggestions will be wellcome.

Im feeling I ll have to go back to XP for the next 1-2 years ...

Install klite standard and then run codec tweak tool, then set media player classic to output in overlay mode.

 

[Tangrata]

Thanks to all posts! Especially the last one.

Klite helped A LOT. It boosted both 32 and 64bit players.

Now the performance is at least 5 times better.


I will do a clean install with the 32bit OS also. Obviously in my case it will run better.

 

[Tangrata]

I installed 32-bit Windows 7.

As I expected on my system a 32-bit OS is much faster.


The drivers for my wirless Logitech LX 700 keyboard still dont work though ..
Thats weird because I personally saw it working with an older 32bit Win 7 release