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I don't see how to search the forum, so I must admit I haven't done that, but . . .

I've recently assembled a Gigabyte Z77M-D3H-MVP with a i5-3570K and I'm using the on-chip G-4000 to good effect, mostly!

Some large videos that would not play without multi-second jumping now play smoothly. So, most of the 1080 content I've assembled is now visible on the Samsung B-2230 which I chose as a low-cost interim display solution.

But I have a couple large video files (1080p) which continue to "jump" as they play. Nothing like as bad as when I tried playing them with eight year old graphics cards, but noticeably jerky nonetheless.

Since my new mobo has 3rd generation 16-bit PCI Express available, would I solve the rest of my problem with an add-in GPU?

I do not play games at all because I'm too old and my reflexes aren't good enough (neither is my brain good enough! :-D )

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Chas
 
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The igpu on the 3570 can handle watching any type of video even blue ray if im not mistaken. See if drivers need upgrading if not that, get a new video player http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/downloads/ is the best imo.

If thats not it it could just be the files themselves have you tried other HD videos?
 
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Don't bother. The inbuilt GPU on the 3570K is more than sufficinet for standard 2D clips, 3D clips should have no problem rendering on the CPU cores. Post a mediainfo snippet so we can take a look. BTW, my 3870K has no problems playing a 20GB 20MB/s 1080p .mkv via the onboard GPU.
 
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^ Agreed I dont think obsama read what the op is using his system for.
 
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I'd disagree. A 50GB BD .iso would be A-OK too on any modern integrated GPU. Getting a cheap add on GPU is pointless.
 
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Thanks to all of you for the replies!!!

I should also have told more about the O/S and media player setup because I'm playing with a bunch of new things here --- any one of which could be causing my problem.

First, since I was going from the ground up, I decided to see what I thought about Windows 8. I've been using XP-Pro for a long time, like it very much.

I have an unused Vista Ultimate, but decided to skip it ($$$ down the drain). I also have an unused Windows 7 Pro which may be where this new system will end up.

But, I decided to use this blank slate as an opportunity to try Windows 8, so I got the Windows 8 Release Preview 64-bit and installed it on a used but freshly formatted hard drive. The hard drive is SATA-1 and is only a temporary installation. I have a new SATA-3 drive but haven't installed it yet since I wanted to decide on my O/S before I made it the primary.

Okay, so where am I?

Z77 mobo
Intel i5-3570K
using on-chip Intel G-4000 via DGI to Samsung B2230
Seagate Barracuda ST3160023AS (160 GB, 1,5 GB/s, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache) [not a strong contender, but I had it available]
LG BH14NS40 Blu-Ray player/burner

Windows 8 64-bit
WMP-11
Direct-X 11

The video is MPEG-1 and I have tried playing it from the network drive and from the local hard drive with similar result. I'll get back later with more info using a tool that was suggested by one reply, but for now I am using the no-longer-supported GSpot v2.70a which reports that both video and audio codecs are installed and are capable of rendering the stream.

I have compared the troublesome video file with others of similar size and type (mpeg) and I see that most are being rendered with H.264 codec, so maybe the thing just wasn't ripped properly.

I need to get a Blu-Ray disc and check this whole thing out, but since I never have had a Blu-Ray player, I don't own any Blu-Ray discs yet. Maybe I'll rent one today and see what happens.

But, I wonder if the 64 bit Windows or just the Windows 8 not quite ready for prime-time may be the problem. On the other hand, it is not a bad bet that whoever ripped the video didn't do a good job.

Well, thanks again for the help. BTW, I do NOT like the Windows 8 user interface. I may install Open SuSE 12.2 on my new SATA-3 drive and see how it likes the videos.

:D
Chas
 
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Let's mark this one [SOLVED] -- If I can't figure out how to do that, maybe one of the MODS can do it for me.

I can't pick a "best answer" because there were too many good ones. And, I'm not really finished experimenting with this.

BUT when I installed VLC (which I have on my other computers and should have remembered to install on this one!), the video in question played just right.

So, Smeg45 and obsama1, thanks for that suggestion! I want to also follow up on a couple suggestions by others including the general HTPC discussion.

Thanks for the rapid and lively discussion on my topic.

Chas
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