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Sep 24, 2006

perfect posted:

unfortunately i cannot disable the h.264/AVC codec, all the options are greyed out and i see no dropdown box.

Oh well, maybe this will finally push me into upgrading my HTPC with some newer components rather than using old spare parts.

In the options menu in MPC go to the "external filters" section, click "Add" and you should see "CoreAVC" in there, add that and set it to "prefer"

If that doesn't help try turning off de-blocking in CoreAVC's settings.

And if that doesn't help try uninstalling ffdshow and see if that's your problem.

Beyond that, you're most likely looking at a cpu (your current cpu should be able to handle 720p without a problem) upgrade if you want to play HD MPEG4 video.

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Rort
Sep 24, 2006

perfect posted:

thanks for the help, i tried all of these suggestions and unfortunately there was no effect. The CPU/Mobo is from a 5 year old computer so maybe that is my culprit. I guess short of purchasing a new CPU (if thats even possible for something this old) i'm pretty much stuck.

thanks for trying

I should have mentioned this above, but are the movies you're trying to play in an MKV container? If so, you should probably check out Haali Media Splitter.

You'll have to add it under the external filters in MPC the same way as above.

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