Choppy Playback

[hiro1030]

Originally Posted by dadkins

T8100 is fine - this laptop has one.

Integrated Graphice is not a *card*.
You might want to look into getting an actual video card for the machine - nVidia would be my suggestion.
8600 GT or higher.
This laptop has a 8400GT and plays *ANY* Blu-ray that I have thrown at it.
It's not Vista either... Vista or XP will work fine.

Right. 2.1GHz x 2 should be fine w/a decent video card. My HTPC is running Opty 170 (2.0GHz x 2) and plays BD flawlessly with ArcSoft Total Media Theatre, but I use the Radeon HD 4670 1GB. So, that is helping a lot in my case. I have also tested the NVIDIA 8400GS 256MB and that worked also.

So, I believe you might need a dedicated video card as other members suggested above. I just checked your model at Dell site. Nice modern style, but it seems to be hard to upgrade the components. There might not be a room for a video card. I just don't know.

BTW, did you check if hardware acceleration is checked in the TMT settings?