BluRay Play not smooth

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

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Sep 10, 2011 10:44

I am just setting a HTPC.
I am new to the HTPC, buy very experience in PC building.

My system is a LiteOn Blu Ray, AMD Athlon II X4 640, with a ATI Radeon HD 5750 , 4Gigs of Ram, Win 7 Home 64.
Windows Experience Rating is 7.3 (out of 7.6) across the board except my HD is 5.6, but that shouldn't matter.
So I have good processing power.
Running Catalyst 11.8 Video Drivers, on a 46" LCD Sony at 1920 x 1080

I am running PowerDVD 10 at 1080P, 5.1 Doby.

Questions
DVD play is perfect; but my Blu Ray play has slight video pauses.
Would PowerDVD 11 fix this? (going try the trial ver)

I can't help but think my system setup my be wrong.
Isn't there a way to make the AMD CPU and ATI GPU work together to smooth out the video?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Sep 10. 2011 11:15

Thanks,
Bill

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 10, 2011 11:19

PowerDVD 11 did not help. The BluRay play still has slight hesitations...jerky....just slightly, depending on the sceen

I think it's a hardware issue, but I don't know what to do.

I don't think my system is being fully utilized.

Again, I don't think the CPU and GPU are working together to support BluRay.

I'm going to try a slight GPU overclock...
Thanks,
Bill

mattcharlton

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 07:59 Messages: 11 Offline

Sep 10, 2011 11:39

What blu ray disc are you playing?

Have PowerDVD running windowed and open up your task manager - have a look at your CPU utilisation - what's the first core doing?

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 10, 2011 11:39

Ok.

A slight Overclock of the Video Card smoothed out the hesitations.
Not all gone, but most.

I didn't overclock much. Just what Catalyst AutoTune came up with.

I may push the Video Card a little more...

I wondr if I push the CPU slightly, the combination will do the trick. Thanks,
Bill

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 11, 2011 00:11

"What blu ray disc are you playing?"

I am playing Avatar BluRay on a Liteon iHBS212

Have PowerDVD running windowed and open up your task manager - have a look at your CPU utilisation - what's the first core doing?

My over all CPU usage is betwen 7 and 14% and the First CPU is showing very low usaage. In fact non of the CPUs go above the bottom horz line, and CPU 1 is the least active. Thanks,
Bill

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 12, 2011 00:17

More info.
If I play a DVD I get smooth video.
But when I play BluRay I get slight video hesitations.

I ran a DVD and looked at my system usage through Task Manager.
CPU Usage was 20% and Ram nearly 2GB, and the video play back was smooth.

Yet when I play BluRay, my system usage is much LOWER, CPU 6% and Ram 1.3GB.

More system resources are given to DVD play than BluRay, yet my BluRay play is less smooth.
.............Why? Thanks,
Bill

BillS22

Newbie Joined: Sep 10, 2011 02:05 Messages: 29 Offline

Sep 12, 2011 10:52

I am convenenced that this is a hardware issue.
My Blu-Ray drive isn't doing the job.

I'll need to research the best drive before I spend any more money on this rig.

Thanks,
Bill