Problems playing HD 1080 video with decent hardware.

Quick note: I apologize if this is in the wrong section on the forum to be posting this topic, but I couldn't find where else I could post this that would make it relevant to the specific board.


I downloaded Dark Knight HD 1080 trailer (The format was .MOV) to see how HD looked on my computer, but it was choppy running on Quicktime 7.4.5 and on VLC media players.

My hardware that I ran it on is as follows:

Asus 5PQ Pro
Wolfdale dual core 3.16
Corsair Dominator 1066
Geforce 9800 gx2 Evga
Western Digital SE16 640Gig HDD
Onboard audio

All my hardware is running at stock settings and with Vista Ultimate 32.

I've downloaded the latest Drivers for my video card and my onboard sound card. The rest of my installed drivers are all from the CD that came with the motherboard. I'm too lazy to individually update everything from the Asus website, but I'm not sure if that would matter.

Is my hardware good enough to run blue ray disk or even run HD 1080? What could I do to solve this problem?


Input is greatly appreciated as always.

I downloaded and installed coreacv but it didn't help any. Only thing I noticed is that I can play the video in windows media player now with a lot better picture quality than quicktime and VLC media players, but it still has that choppy effect and there's no sound.


Here's some snapshots I uploaded to tinypic:

Played on windows media
http://i37.tinypic.com/dxeqzk.jpg

Here's the same shot running on Quicktime (Not sure what causes this in Quicktime but it looks nasty compared to the wm playback)
http://i36.tinypic.com/bgsr2h.jpg

The quality of the snapshots were degraded slightly after I uploaded them.

Btw, I'm running an LG 22" 1680 X 1050 L227WTG-PF at native resolution.


I don't understand what marit levels are, or how RadLights Filter Manager would work, so if you could explain that to me I'd appreciate it.


Thanks for the input so far!!!