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Hi all,
Running the HTPC in my sig (using integrated HD 2000 graphics), going through a Denon AVR-791 via HDMI, then HDMI out to a Samsung LCD. I'm having intermittent problems with audio sync and video focus in multiple different programs.
Audio sync: It's inconsistent. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. Sometimes the video is ahead of the audio and other times it's the other way around, so I can't exactly set an audio offset.
Video focus: This also is inconsistent. It's most noticeable when there's scenes with face close-ups. You can see the edges of the eyes be perfectly in focus, and then blur, and then back into focus, and then blur.
Neither seems to happen playing physical blurays or DVDs through TMT5.
Both happen intermittently when playing my TV shows / movies from two different internal drives. All files were encoded to .M4V format using Handbrake (Apple Universal preset, Detelecine/Decomb set to default, DRC to +2, no other changes). They play/look fine on my gaming PC, but intermittently have problems on my HTPC. Software I've tried: VLC, MPC-HC, MediaBrowser. Additionally, when playing stuff through MPC-HC, there are times where I am unable to access the slider at the bottom - the picture stops where the slider is supposed to be, but the slider/menu never shows up.
I've done driver/bios updates for all components and software involved. I've done everything I can think of short of reinstalling Windows and doing the entire setup again.
Is this something a dedicated video card might fix?
I found this Anandtech article suggesting the 6570 or GT430. Would there be an image quality improvement with either of those, and preferably a fix to the mentioned issues?
Running the HTPC in my sig (using integrated HD 2000 graphics), going through a Denon AVR-791 via HDMI, then HDMI out to a Samsung LCD. I'm having intermittent problems with audio sync and video focus in multiple different programs.
Audio sync: It's inconsistent. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. Sometimes the video is ahead of the audio and other times it's the other way around, so I can't exactly set an audio offset.
Video focus: This also is inconsistent. It's most noticeable when there's scenes with face close-ups. You can see the edges of the eyes be perfectly in focus, and then blur, and then back into focus, and then blur.
Neither seems to happen playing physical blurays or DVDs through TMT5.
Both happen intermittently when playing my TV shows / movies from two different internal drives. All files were encoded to .M4V format using Handbrake (Apple Universal preset, Detelecine/Decomb set to default, DRC to +2, no other changes). They play/look fine on my gaming PC, but intermittently have problems on my HTPC. Software I've tried: VLC, MPC-HC, MediaBrowser. Additionally, when playing stuff through MPC-HC, there are times where I am unable to access the slider at the bottom - the picture stops where the slider is supposed to be, but the slider/menu never shows up.
I've done driver/bios updates for all components and software involved. I've done everything I can think of short of reinstalling Windows and doing the entire setup again.
Is this something a dedicated video card might fix?
I found this Anandtech article suggesting the 6570 or GT430. Would there be an image quality improvement with either of those, and preferably a fix to the mentioned issues?