Stuttering with Mpeg4 AVC blu-ray discs

[rarredoa]

I had the same problem, with a sub-par CPU... AND sub-par video card. I ended up upgrading both, but before i upgraded the videocard, i upgraded the CPU. Unfortunately, i was an early adopter of blu-ray PC's so the software/hardware know-how was practically unheard of which meant that I spent hundreds on trial n' error solutions! Not even on this site did I find enough technical know-how at that time, believe it or not! It wasn't until I had BOTH new cpu and video card did I play around and realize that I only needed the video card upgrade the whole time!

The video card might be the only thing u need to upgrade, but if you decide to upgrade the CPU, make sure u upgrade to at least dual-core cpu, not just for blu-ray, but for other PC applications. I recommend nvidia 8500, 8600 or 8800GT. If U wanna stick to ATI I recommend at least an ATI 2400HD. My understanding is that it has dedicated blu-ray/HD DVD hardware acceleration for ALL the codecs (terrible gaming though), under $100. Hopefully the ATI2400HD MIGHT be the only upgrade u need if u don't wanna change your CPU/motherboard