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shipod

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HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« on: July 02, 2011, 07:17:14 am »

I have an Acer Revo 3610 (Win 7 x64, 4 gb RAM) that I'm using as HTPC (connected to Phillips TV via HDMI).

 I've upgraded from MC15 to 16 to be able to successfully view Blu-ray discs (using DVDFab.)

I can do this except for the terrible stuttering/latency of audio. I have checked related threads in the forum, tried variations within WASAPI, Direct Sound, even Wave Out in order to get the movie to play smoothly or without the audio stammering or being out of sync. I do find that RO advanced with HDMI bit-streaming appears to be the least offensive, but nothing I've tried gives a good performance.  I think that something I tweaked in MC15 was carried over . . . can anyone recommend the "default" settings for Audio/Video playback so that I can at least start from scratch?
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Re: HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2011, 07:23:45 am »

Welcome.   Could you run the benchmark feature under Help and post the results?

Start with Red October Standard and make no changes to it until you solve this problem.

Try changing the Audio setting under Video.
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Re: HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2011, 08:44:11 am »

here are benchmarks:

=== Running Benchmarks (please do not interrupt) ===

Running 'Math' benchmark...
    Single-threaded integer math... 22.670 seconds
    Single-threaded floating point math... 13.791 seconds
    Multi-threaded integer math... 12.864 seconds
    Multi-threaded mixed math... 7.675 seconds
Score: 333

Running 'Image' benchmark...
    Image creation / destruction... 7.805 seconds
    Flood filling... 2.575 seconds
    Direct copying... 4.326 seconds
    Small renders... 15.091 seconds
    Bilinear rendering... 9.333 seconds
    Bicubic rendering... 9.580 seconds
Score: 452

Running 'Database' benchmark...
    Create database... 5.028 seconds
    Populate database... 12.696 seconds
    Save database... 1.587 seconds
    Reload database... 0.296 seconds
    Search database... 9.280 seconds
    Sort database... 7.609 seconds
    Group database... 5.464 seconds
Score: 512

JRMark (version 16.0.121): 432
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Re: HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2011, 09:09:17 am »

I would recommend offloading as many CPU-heavy tasks as possible. Try installing LAV CUVID: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=160290 and set it as an additional filter in RO standard + additional filters. Bitstreaming is also probably a good idea too.
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Re: HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2011, 10:06:11 am »

That's a very low power machine.  Red October Std might work if nothing else is going on in the background, but ROHQ won't work.
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Re: HTPC, MC16 and Red October
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2011, 06:17:09 pm »

I would recommend offloading as many CPU-heavy tasks as possible. Try installing LAV CUVID: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=160290 and set it as an additional filter in RO standard + additional filters. Bitstreaming is also probably a good idea too.

Agreed.

You'll probably find that the stutter coincides with your CPU maxing out.

You need to offload the video to your GPU, which RO doesn't do.
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