Hi,
I was running two seperate OS in the past (Win7 & XP), but since there are no XP drivers for the Creative Titanium HD, I switched completely to Window 7 x64.
Before I used XP for videos/music and Windows 7 x64 for games.
I think most people know, if you want to play a 24p video (23.976) and your display runs at 60Hz, you do something wrong or you simply don't see it.
In XP all I did was to change the desktop Hz to 24 and everything was allright. No stuttering, smooth playback.
And that's exactly what is not working in Win7.
Of course I can still change the frequency to 24Hz, but that's not enough anymore to clear everything out. I get stuttering. sometimes more, sometimes less, but it's there. And it "feels" like as if my system isn't good enough to play 720p/1080p or my TV doesn't support 24p playback. Well......the system is strong enough and my TV can take 24p material.
What I did until now:
- Winamp, WMP, MPC, BSPlayer - no difference whatsoever (BSPlayer is acting up for some reason)
- several ffdshow versions - no difference
- CoreAVC - doesn't help either
- DXVA - same thing
At this point, I thought simply changing players and codecs won't help, so I searched for different ways.
- frame doubling with AviSynth & ffdshow - well, playback got smoother, but this distinctiv stuttering remains
- ReClock - this is strange. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
I also thought about:
- Testing with an actual Blu-ray and a PS3 to see, if the TV's broken - no, it's not broken
Well I don't know what to do anymore. ReClock is definitely an improvement but it's not the final solution. For now, I am using three OS. Win7 for games, another Win7 for music/everything else and XP for videos.
Why do I seperate games from everything else is another story.
Some kind of advice? Do I miss something entirely?
Please help!
EDIT:
Something I forgot. If the video stutters and I for example fast rewind 5 seconds, the stuttering goes away. So if the PC saw the scene once, it never stutters there again, until I close the video and reopen it. That's what I meant by "feels" like my PC is too slow.