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Test your computer playback performance

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Computer played it just fine, 37% CPU utilization from VLC, but the motion made me a bit dizzy. Plus, there's now a bunch of guano under the monitor to be cleaned up.

Ya you need high power stuff to be able to render that correctly!!!

When I viewed it frames were dropped,etc...... (VLC reported "Computer too slow??" -- Indeed it is,isnt meant to handle that 100%)

Congrats on only 37% CPU usage during playback!!

Re: Test your computer playback performance

Tested with MPC-BE with MadVR renderer which worked flawlessly with ~15% CPU utilization ("GPU" acceleration indicated). VLC ran with about ~17% CPU utilization and had a slight hesitation at a regular interval and the initial couple of frames started out messed up. So similar performance, but different playback quality.

MPC-BE's properties for the file indicated it was encoded in High profile at Level 5.1. This is likely why it's choking some people's PC. Also most people are likely to play this using VLC. VLC is easy to use, but it's far from the best player around (I like it's easy interface and easy to work with video modification functions), it gets fussy with some video files even if technically supported, just how they are encoded seems to make VLC get wonky.

Wow 15%??

Thats excellent...... Whats your CPU speed bud??

Re: Test your computer playback performance

Ah the "infamous" birds test files. There are versions at various bitrates floating around the 'net, used a lot to debug/compare various set-top media players.
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♬ Dragon of good fortune struggles with the trickster Fox ♬

no problems playing this at all full screen on a 5 year old gateway p7805u.

My ancient HP DX2300 with an E4600 Core 2 Duo and a 5570 graphics card had no problem playing it it Media Player Classic. VLC choked quite a bit however.