Hello Everyone!
I'm taking a break from gaming and trying to turn my gaming rig into an HTPC. I think it's good enough to do the job, but I'm experiencing some issues that I hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong or in fact my system is not good enough.
My system is a Core 2 Conroe 6600 in a Gigabyte P965 mobo. I have a eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 640 mb video card, 2 gigs of G.Skill memory and over a terabyte of storage. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32 bit.
Issues: When playing tv show files (mostly .avi, but some .mkv's) they always stutter as far as video goes. The audio seems to stay true though. The video is a little jumpy and sometimes seems to lock up and than catch up after a few seconds. Also, I have transfered some video files from my dvr over the years to my pc through a old hauppage pvr 350 card. I've made mpeg 2 files out of them and they are seriously cropped when i play them back. They look good aside from that. Is there a way to get them to fill my 16:9 HD television?
I installed FFDshow this morning hoping that would correct the jumpy playback, but no change. Thanks for any help anyone can provide!
I'm taking a break from gaming and trying to turn my gaming rig into an HTPC. I think it's good enough to do the job, but I'm experiencing some issues that I hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong or in fact my system is not good enough.
My system is a Core 2 Conroe 6600 in a Gigabyte P965 mobo. I have a eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 640 mb video card, 2 gigs of G.Skill memory and over a terabyte of storage. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32 bit.
Issues: When playing tv show files (mostly .avi, but some .mkv's) they always stutter as far as video goes. The audio seems to stay true though. The video is a little jumpy and sometimes seems to lock up and than catch up after a few seconds. Also, I have transfered some video files from my dvr over the years to my pc through a old hauppage pvr 350 card. I've made mpeg 2 files out of them and they are seriously cropped when i play them back. They look good aside from that. Is there a way to get them to fill my 16:9 HD television?
I installed FFDshow this morning hoping that would correct the jumpy playback, but no change. Thanks for any help anyone can provide!