Playing x264 files on your computer

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milomak

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Especially 1080p ones. Do they tax the CPU or the graphics card?
 
I think it uses CPU, I play 720p and 1080p files on my laptop (linked to my 50" Bravia via vga) and they play perfectly.

At first the 1080p files wouldn't play properly, but it was a simple change to my battery settings that fixed this :) Woops. (so that was CPU not GFX)

My laptop is a Toshiba A200, DuoCore 1 (not sure on processor speed), 2gb ram, intel graphics.
 
guys i just downloaded the new heroes episode in 720P HD (.mkv format) and now it won't work, it just gives a blank screen with a couple of unreadable words at the top. help.:o
 
Download the CCCP codec pack, that should fix it (and uninstall all others before you install CCCP).
 
milomak said:
Especially 1080p ones. Do they tax the CPU or the graphics card?
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A bit of both depending on the graphics card. Newer cards do a lot of post processing leaving very little work to the CPU.
 
well i just found out that none of my videos (mkv, avi etc.) work on vlc media player. i tried reinstalling and it still wouldn't work.

BTW: i'm capped. so no downloading
 
You've got some bogus codecs installed. Run the codec remover from the CCCP website and then install CCCP. It's all I use, and it plays everything.
 
I had a similar problem and how i fixed it was uninstalling all the codecs on my pc and install the cccp codec pack and install the latest divx codec pack and nothing else.
 
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