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post #21 of 40
7/5/04 at 1:33am
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Originally Posted by new lappy
I have downloaded the amazon 1080p and punisher 720p. both of them didn't run smooothly. amazon skipped many frames was going three frames a second. punisher didn't skip frames but was very choppy. it was using just 35% of my cpu performance. I'm using the win media 8. here are my specs.

i9100
3.2 gh
1gig ram
60 gig harddrive 7200
ati 9700 128
Those specs should definitely be able to play all the clips smoothly. Any programs you have in your system tray running in the background, including anti-virus could be causing the slowdown.

You should try using Zoom Player or maybe even Windows Media Player 9 will work better.

Here's a comment straight from one of the Microsoft WMVHD guys on AVS Forum :

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System requirements are a tough thing with these discs. Basically, you have 41ms to pull the data off of the disc, decrypt it, decode it, and render it. The 3Ghz recoomendation is really a soft # -- machines with lower specs are able to play this content back sometimes while even 3.2Ghz machines may not be able to. The problem really lies in the fact that there are about 43 potential bottlenecks in the system which all add up to whether or not you can play the content back.

We found that putting system requirements of 200Mhz core FSB (that's 800 in Intel speak) with AGP FastWrite enabled and PC3200 or faster RAM would be a bit obtuse for most users on the packaging. For reasons of simplification, we took the tact that most machines with 3Ghz processors are going to have more powerful components installed. Unfortunately with 40+ variables in the playback chain, any of which could break the experience (the chain is only as strong as the weakest link), coupled with the fact that they really do have to work together has proved to be a difficult classification problem.
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post #22 of 40
7/5/04 at 3:07am
I'm running WMP 8 and it works just fine. However, the aspect ratio is too tall... anybody got the same problem? How would I be able to view the video in the native 1920x1200 resolution? When I switch to 1920x1080, the laptop doesn't scale the screen and I have to scroll around the screen by moving the mouse toward the edges.
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post #23 of 40
7/5/04 at 10:13pm
thats off what version of omega drivers are you using? heck consider a jump to WMP9?
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post #24 of 40
7/5/04 at 10:38pm
Or you can try the WMP10 Technical Beta off Microsofts site .. Works perfectly fine here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...0/default.aspx
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post #25 of 40
7/6/04 at 12:12am

Wow

My CPU got HOT HOT HOT ...But they looked incredible, and i only missed a couple frames. NOW, if all my DVD's were this quality, that'd rock. Outside of the couple frames, both the amazon, and T2 videos played so smooth. Incredible, DVD's just got put to shame Oh and i'm using WMP 10 beta, along with the 4.6 OMEGA ATi drivers
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post #26 of 40
7/6/04 at 12:21am
I'm using Omega 2.5.44 WMP9? Nah... too bloated. I am still using Windows Media Player classic as my default AVI player (mplayer2.exe)

So, how are you WUXGA people able to view the videos at full screen with the correct aspect ratio? Again, my screen displays the videos too tall.
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post #27 of 40
7/6/04 at 12:24am
The next media after DVD's better be this good in quality
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post #28 of 40
7/6/04 at 9:52am
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Originally Posted by hksscom
I'm using Omega 2.5.44 WMP9? Nah... too bloated. I am still using Windows Media Player classic as my default AVI player (mplayer2.exe)

So, how are you WUXGA people able to view the videos at full screen with the correct aspect ratio? Again, my screen displays the videos too tall.
Aspect ratio looks fine to me..
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post #29 of 40
7/24/04 at 12:56am
Microsoft has released an early alpha tool for determining if you system can handle WMV HD.

WMV HD Performance Analyzation

download page
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post #30 of 40
7/24/04 at 10:12am
The most demanding video is obviously "Step_into_Liquid_1080".
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post #31 of 40
7/24/04 at 11:06am
Check these results out. Specs are in the sig. My video playback was a little choppy but still noticeable. The only thing I can think of that is doing it is because I set my driver settings to best quality.

http://www.geocities.com/mnguyen281/wmvhd.jpg

That's the result of my "Performance Analyzation" I knew the Radeon 9700 was weak, but that is unbelievable.
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post #32 of 40
7/24/04 at 12:37pm
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Originally Posted by MNguyen281
http://www.geocities.com/mnguyen281/wmvhd.jpg

That's the result of my "Performance Analyzation" I knew the Radeon 9700 was weak, but that is unbelievable.
Those video results may be inaccurate too. A 128MB DX9 video card meets the recommended spec. They're just testing this tool now and looking for feedback on it (see AVS Forum link above).
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post #33 of 40
7/24/04 at 1:07pm
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Originally Posted by Sterlin254
The most demanding video is obviously "Step_into_Liquid_1080".
Yep, that's the ONLY one that I've tested where my system drops over a thousand frames!
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post #34 of 40
7/24/04 at 9:20pm
Please refer to my post here: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=33401

It has a link to a new tool microsoft is using to evaluate WMV HD content playability. Read my post there.
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post #35 of 40
7/25/04 at 1:40pm
it was the same tool
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post #36 of 40
7/25/04 at 4:11pm
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Originally Posted by hrana
Please refer to my post here: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=33401

It has a link to a new tool microsoft is using to evaluate WMV HD content playability. Read my post there.
I'm way ahead of you. Take a look on the second page of this thread.
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post #37 of 40
7/25/04 at 5:28pm
i tried playing step into the liquid 1080i and there was no sound and it was like watching a slide show - nothing else running using media player 10. what gives?
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post #38 of 40
7/25/04 at 6:27pm
Atleast you got a slideshow out of it, that's more than I can say.

Though all the other ones played nearly perfect, and very few frames missed.
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post #39 of 40
7/25/04 at 10:52pm
i redid my settings and now every video is buttery smooth at 1080i except for step in the liquid which is now watchable but has no sound and skips a frame every 10 secs or so
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post #40 of 40
7/26/04 at 2:21am
I also got interesting results with the tool. On Battery, CPU and FSB were well in excess of requirements despite being set to 600MHz. When I switched to AC and 2GHz speed, CPU stayed the same, but FSB decreased and was below requirements for 1080p. I also got dismal results for video subsystem and memory/core speeds made no visible difference to these results, even when underclocked to 110/100 with Powerplay. Despite this, I have had no problem viewing the films, but will now try to run liquid.
Cheers
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