viewing MP4 files

[nel602]

I have some movies/tv shows that are MP4 but when I view them on my comp it is very choppy and delayed.
Would this be a RAM issue? right now I have 1GB.

I am using BS player to watch the videos.
Any input would be appreciated!

[board123]

Are they H.264 videos? What resolution?

What's your CPU?

[flyz]

Probably your CPU is too slow. If you have a recent video card and the videos are encoded properly, you could try DXVA decode with MPC-HC.

[nel602]

my comp is an AMD 64 3000+
1.81GHz, 960 mb RAM

I've tried the media player classic and its the same results.
Any more suggestions?

[Jucius Maximus]

VLC? Maybe your CPU is just too slow. Try closing as many other programs as possible to free up CPU cycles.

Also, there is an off-chance your computer might have worms / viruses / etc running in the background, which could chew up a lot of cycles.

[Hello-]

If the .mp4 files you're trying to play are similar to 720p quicktime movie trailers your cpu won't be able to handle it. Maybe if you have a DXVA/Cuda capable video card, it could offload the video decoding like flyz mentioned.

[dan-the-man]

MP4's can be played on Windows Media player, try using that. If itS, choppy with WMP it's you video card.