Hey, since I last posted in the froums, my old duron@892 Mhz went to my sister and my main box is faster, so i went and downloaded a few mHD files.
With one (an mkv of about 832*something res), i got a strange frame skipping issue during the intro, black background, red letters. When the text dades to black, a few frames are skipped. Also whn a character goes under a bridge and the scene fades to black because of the light changes, it skipps some frames.
It seems not related to viewtopic.php?f=14&t=59354&p=199190 .
Vlc 1.0 rc1 DOES use more cpu on the 2 h.264 files i tested, but when the frame skipping occurs on this one the cpu usage drops quite a bit (eg: it's close to 33% and on the frameskipping it drops to about 11%).
An old mplayer svn trough mplayerui did not have this issue, but the quality of the video was by far superior on vlc.
This happens with 0.9.8a, 0.9.9 and 1.0 rc1 as far as i know. Disabling the loop filters did not seem to fix the problem. Since that often allows people with older procesors watch full hd video, i really don't understand what may be going on. Any pointers will be apreciated.
I'll post more details about the file when I get home.
My specs:
pentium 4 2.40 GHZ
512 MB ram
Windows XP sp3
Zogis Nvidia Geforce 5500 fx based video card