Choppy playback - Blu-ray Forum

DEX · 12-18-2008, 04:36 PM

I have an external Lite-On BD-drive hooked up to my 24" iMac running Windows. I've tried to use both WinDVD 9 and PoweDVD 7 and 8, but most of the time the playback of the movies is so choppy it's pretty much impossible to watch.

My CPU doesn't struggle, cus it usually stays at 40-50% while playing movies.

I don't get what the problem is, because my specs should also be more than enough:

1920x1200
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz
nVIDIA 8800GT 512MB
Windows XP SP3
2 GB RAM

Any suggestions?

Twankies08 · 12-18-2008, 10:30 PM

Haha maybe your Mac is pissed that you put windows on it
so its like "im not playing blu-rays for you"!!! LMAO

radium02 · 12-18-2008, 11:43 PM

Try lowering your resolution to see if you are still getting choppy playback.

A friend of mine had that problem and once we lowered his resolution, his playback was smooth.

DEX · 12-19-2008, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by radium02

Try lowering your resolution to see if you are still getting choppy playback.

A friend of mine had that problem and once we lowered his resolution, his playback was smooth.

Could try that, but there may still be a million other reasons why it's not working...

Still, everytime I want to watch a BD movie, I have to restart, boot to Windows, and then change my resolution.
Getting Blu-ray to work properly on a PC is a ***** anyway - and I thought I had enough hinders already

It's long overdue for Apple to adopt Blu-ray...

12-18-2008, 04:36 PM	#1
DEX New Member Member since:Sep 2008 Blu-ray collection:1	Choppy playback I have an external Lite-On BD-drive hooked up to my 24" iMac running Windows. I've tried to use both WinDVD 9 and PoweDVD 7 and 8, but most of the time the playback of the movies is so choppy it's pretty much impossible to watch. My CPU doesn't struggle, cus it usually stays at 40-50% while playing movies. I don't get what the problem is, because my specs should also be more than enough: 1920x1200 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz nVIDIA 8800GT 512MB Windows XP SP3 2 GB RAM Any suggestions?

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12-18-2008, 10:30 PM	#2
Twankies08 Senior Member Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Panama City, Florida Blu-ray collection:168 Blu-ray reviews:8 Trading Score:18	Haha maybe your Mac is pissed that you put windows on it so its like "im not playing blu-rays for you"!!! LMAO

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radium02 Junior Member Member since:Dec 2008	Try lowering your resolution to see if you are still getting choppy playback. A friend of mine had that problem and once we lowered his resolution, his playback was smooth.

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