Help with my htpc

[josherrr]

any help would be great over the past month or 2 i have been working on a htpc building it up from parts from old computers its not a dual core machine but the specs are not that bad

Mobo- Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Cpu-2.4 ghz p4 northwood oc@3.12 ghz
System bus 1040 mhz
ram 1 gig pc 3200 (generic)
boot drive 70 gig seagate
media drive 500 gig maxtor in a usb 2.0 case
video card visiontek hd2400 512mb (agp)

now for one the hd2400 is going back to the store if i can not figure this out as i notice very little over my old evga 7600 gs

trying to play 1080p mkv files is a joke 720p is great im playing this on a 720p 27" viewsonic lcd (playing 1080p on a 720p tv yea well im working on that)

i have used codec snipper and cleared all codecs then i installed FFDShow VLC media player classic fresh format everything so is the system just to old to play 1080p mkv files or am i doing somthing wrong

 

[Ancient_1]

What you need is CoreAVC Decoder which is not free but should play your files on your system with MPC. It is the best software decoder of x/h264 files I know of. I am sure your mkv are x264.

Just google CoreAVC you will find plenty of info on it.

 

[josherrr]

tried that and and my audio video sync is way off

 

[Ancient_1]

If it plays smooth you can adjust the sync in MPC to match. I have had no problems with coreavc and mpc playing any of the x264 files. Are you sure it wasn't just a bad encode or does it happen on more than one?