Thirith on 11/2/2016 at 10:31
I've posted before about the HTPC I've put together, and I'm still trying to iron out the remaining kinks. One thing I'm finding pretty annoying is this: when I play Blu-rays on the PC, there are occasional stutters. They're not particularly frequent, but even if they just happen once every 15-20 minutes and are over in a couple of seconds, it bothers me as a film geek.
Does anyone know how they can be reduced or removed entirely? I've looked around on Google and haven't found any immediate solutions.
My setup is as follows:
ASUS VivoMini UN62-M094T (Intel i3-4030U)
8 GB RAM
Samsung SE-506CB Slim external drive
Windows 10
PowerDVD 15 Ultra
AnyDVD HD
(I try to have as few programs running in the background as possible.)
bassoferrol on 11/2/2016 at 15:45
You watch movies through PowerDVD? Why?
Try Media Player Home Cinema. It won't hurt you.
If still in trouble: Your HTPC is low-mid range.
Maybe Blue-ray player is faulty.
Other thing you could (I'm drifting now) is rip your Blu-ray movies with DVDFab and convert them to H264/MPEG4 AVC with WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe. 1920x1080 with best quality settings should take 4GB or less for a two-hour movie. The output quality is very good.
Thirith on 11/2/2016 at 15:54
Does Media Player Home Cinema support menus? The Blu-rays I most want to play via HTPC are Criterion disks and other extras-heavy releases that only come out in region A format, where I'm as interested in the extras as I am in the movie. Since I've got a fair few Criterion disks, I'm also not all that interested in a solution where I have to rip all of them, if I can play them directly.
Child Of Karras on 11/2/2016 at 23:12
After a lot of messing around with that topic I came to this solution:
The player of choice is Kodi. It immediately refreshes the screen's refresh rate to match the movie's. Which also tells my TV to activate frame interpolation for even smoother movements (but not the soap opera effect...).
My additional tool of choice: DVDfab Passkey BluRay. Decrypts Blurays in real-time. Because Kodi can't.
Watching 2D movies like this gave me the best experience, in fact the performance is just as good as with a real Bluray player - I guess at least. And you can control it with a multimedia center remote. The only disadvantage is that Kodi only can handle a few menus. But if you don't need them you're directed straight to the main movie.
For the extras or menus, in case Kodi doesn't open them, or 3D movies there's still PowerDVD 15 on my HTPC.
BTW, the specs are:
AMD Athlon II X4 (3 GHz)
8 GB DDR3 RAM
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
Sony KDL-755HX
