BBC HD stutter on nVidia

[elootos]

...and it's gone!

For the past 2 years since installing my satellite I've been watching BBC HD over Freesat on my lounge Media Center with pixelation for the first 5seconds of every show, including when I skip forward which makes it very frustrating when trying to jump around programmes. This has never been a problem with my other machines with ATi cards so have always put it down to the nVidia card.

But lo and behold, this evening it's gone!?! I can't see any updates in Windows that explain it so perhaps it's a BBC stream update?

I've never seen it on ITV HD and have read that it can be down to the format of the BBC stream itself.

Whatever the reason I feel like I have a proper Media Center now; I feel liberated

[elootos]

I wouldn't have thought this would be a factor, but maybe it's related to me also installing TMT3 instead of PDVD. Hmmm....

[northan]

It's possible that the software is better coded.
But it still might come back still
How much did you pay for TTM3, it has always seemed rather expensive.

[elootos]

(06-11-2010 08:47 PM)northan Wrote:  It's possible that the software is better coded.
But it still might come back still
How much did you pay for TTM3, it has always seemed rather expensive.

Media Center should decode BBC HD with its own .H264 codec, but if either PDVD or TMT3 install their own with a higher priority than Windows, it might kick in when Media Center triggers .H264 playback. This is all speculation still as I'm unsure why BBC HD playback has cleaned up.

I paid £64 for TMT3, but it's worth every penny if it works

(in fact watching District 9 right now on TMT3 streaming off the server (after watching the football on BBC HD of course))