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Well, this I wonder myself because I couldn’t play back 1080p before but I decided to do some research and reinstall K-Lite and Core AVC Pro with the “right” settings.
I have tested the Dark Knight trailers (.mkv) and several other trailers in different formats.
From what I can see it runs smoothly but what do you mean by dropped frames? Is that something you can see or something you get reported by some program?
I do use “Deblocking”: Skip always in Core AVC – perhaps that’s cheating? I can however not see the difference 😉
I do not use Media Player Classic Home Cinema version because I found that to be a bit slower, I use the regular Media Player Classic (ver. 6.4.9.0)
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Skipping deblocking isn’t cheating at all; I use it myself too depending on the file.
I can watch the 1080p H.264 mkv file of “The Dark Knight”, that I mentioned in my last post, on my NC10 using CoreAVC and MPC – HC, however, frames are dropped while it is being played. What MPC – HC is doing in this regard is that, instead of playing all frames of the file, i.e. 23.97 fps, it is playing as many as it can without losing sync, so only approximately 15 fps are being played back. While it may look as if playback is smooth, this is only a result of MPC – HC dropping frames in order to do give that illusion. I would imagine this is more than likely the same situation you are in with MPC.
I use VMR-9 as the renderer in MPC – HC and I also use XP. If you are also using the same, bar MPC – HC of course, you can see how many frames of your 1080p file are being played back in MPC by selecting from the tool-bar “Play => Filters => Video Mixing Render 9 (Renderless) => Frames dropped in Rendererâ€.