MPC Laggy HD Playback

[futurex]

Hello,

I have noticed, that when i play hd video (1440x1088, pal 25fps, interlaced, 2ch ac3 audio) in powerdvd, my cpu usage is around 30%.

when i play in the latest media player classic, it is around 96% to 99%. this is using both mpc's codec and ffdshow, all post-processing disabled. i have also tried all output formats (vmr7,vmr9, etc) and still, the best i got was ~90%

what's going on? doesn't mpc take advantage of the graphics card when playing videos?

my pc is p42.53ghz, geforce 5200 agp video card. it is definately not a hardware/dma/drivers problem

please help!

[setarip]

"what's going on? doesn't mpc take advantage of the graphics card when playing videos?"

Have you tried communicating this question to the author of Media Player Classic (NOT to be confused with Microsoft Windows Media Player)?

[futurex]

no, i havent, but i will try if nobody can help here