Windows – How to watch 1080p video on this setup computer without lagg

amd radeonblu-raycodecmedia playerwindows 7

My hardware:

CPU:     Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
RAM:     4GB
GPU:     Radeon HD5750
OS:      Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Codecs:  K-lite codec pack default install

I'm trying to watch a 1080p bluray movie backup by opening the m2ts files in Media player classic. By my computer specs you'd think I could handle 1080p video, but when watching in media player classic it runs "smoothly" for about 3 seconds, then skips forward a few seconds, and runs smoothly, then skips. It's as if my PC is unable to play at the full 30 fps framerate, so plays at 25fps until the frame queue just dumps several seconds-worth of frames onto the screen in an instance (and repeat).

Can a software adjustment help me here? Alternative player (with frameskip option), alternative codecs-

Thanks for any help

Best Answer

Hm, very perplexing situation; with those specs one would definitely expect better performance. Have you tried playing those same media files on another computer? It's possible that the files themselves are corrupted, which could be causing the skipping.

I would also suggest trying some other players to see if they work any better. According to Wikipedia, some M2TS files can be played by a variety of media player programs, listed in said article. The ones I would recommend trying are Windows Media Player, which has very good codec support in Windows 7, and VLC, which can play just about anything.

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