Jitter in High Definition Video Playback
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Software codecs can only do so much. If you have a relatively piss-poor spec PC and not enough processor gumption to provide enough cycles for decoding 720p/1080p video, then you’re going to need to offload the encoding to something a little more capable.
Turns out my laptop was specified as “HD Ready” which means it has some tricknology under the hood that’s got a bit of beef.
Just as I was ready to pull my hair out, I discovered a suitable guide for configuring Media Player Homecinema to render these files with hardware.
A notable mention for .mov files, endorsed by Quicktime, Apple’s over-geared consummate pile of bloat with such an ironic flucking name it makes me twitch with jibbles of laughter – renaming them to .hdmov will indicate to MPC-HC that you want them rendered in hardware, without use of the quicktime framework (if it is indeed installed).