Originally posted by: adywan

Originally posted by: cbaka
just one question guys, how do u read this stuff on your PC ? iv' try , VLC, Nero showtime, MPC, it's impossible to play , it freeze, or there's no sound, or it play in slowmotion

, need some help.THANKS.

Yeh, I'm having problems playing ANH. I have all the codecs required and my machine is a 3.4ghz Pentium 4 so it should be more than capable of playing this. I really wanted to see these in HD too. Luckily SKYHD will be transmitting the entire saga back to back and in order on New Years day from 6am in Hi-Def so i'll just have to wait til then

A 3.4GHz P4 probably is not fast enough to play this particular encode back, ( A Core 2 Duo is recommended) unless your graphics card can assist - but you can give it your best shot by:
1. Download the Haali Media Splitter
2. Get CoreAVCPro
3. Download ZoomplayerPro or Media Player Classic
4. Download GraphEdit
5. Download FRAPS
6. Download RADLight Filter Manager

Using COREAVC PRO with Zoomplayer Pro or MPC is probably the fastest combination of software for this type of playback. Try disabling deblocking in the codec if it still does not playback smoothly. It would also be a good idea to defrag the file if possible, you want a lowend PC like that to have as smooth a ride as possible.
Use FRAPS and let us know what framerates you are getting.

If it is no faster then some investigation work is required - use GraphEdit and check that ffdshow isn't getting in the way and that you are actually using coreavc.
You can use Radlight to deregister unwanted filters and to give Coreavc and Haali the highest merit so they get used by default. (Graphedit will help you see what is going on)
If using Media Player classic you can right click on the video when it is playing to see what filters it is using.

Still with the 3.4GHz single core machine, I'll be surprised if it plays back smoothly with really high bitrate h264 material - it *might* with deinterlacing and deblocking turned off.
Coreavc should be faster than the GPU assisted renderers with the possible exception of the new NVidia 8800.