Reading 4k

[jimb08]

Hello guys, 

 

I need your help.I will start by telling you all that it might be some mistak in this text. It's because i'm french Canadien. I juste make a great build to game. Because i game a lot. But i also want to listen movie sometime and i have a brand new 4k TV. 

 

I try to load a 4k Movie on internet in MKV and my build does'nt want to read it. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/b/nXvnTW this is my build. quickly i have a I5 7600K whit a  1080 GPU. But when I try to read the movie i have a lot of issu. i looked at my stat and my CPU was at 95-99% of utilisation... and my GPU only at 25 % i dont understand i can run 4k game and i can read LTT 4k on youtube but i can't read 4k movie on VLC... HELP !!!!

[Streetguru]

12 minutes ago, jimb08 said:

 

Would be a waste of money to upgrade your CPU.

Most likely just use Handbrake to encode it to a different format

[jimb08]

ok thanks I will try this latre hope it will work !!!

What is the best format ? 

[GoodBytes]

Bienvenue au forum !

 

Your computer is fully capable of playing 4K movies.

To me, it sounds like you have a codec problem more than anything, or the compression of the 4K video you got is really bad and doing something funky.

 

I would try 4K videos on YouTube as a starting point:

 

 

[jimb08]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

Bienvenue au forum !

 

Your computer is fully capable of playing 4K movies.

To me, it sounds like you have a codec problem more than anything, or the compression of the 4K video you got is really bad and doing something funky.

 

I would try 4K videos on YouTube as a starting point:

 

 

Like i said i dont have any probleme whit all the 4k content on youtube ...

[jimb08]

i can heaven read it whit my laptop ! ... this is strang

[GoodBytes]

20 minutes ago, jimb08 said:

i can heaven read it whit my laptop ! ... this is strang

Yup codec problem.

Did you install any codec pack on your PC?

What video player are you using?

[jimb08]

i dont know what codec is ... 

and I am using VLC 

 

[TetraSky]

Codecs are these bits of softwares that let your computer decode video or audio files of certain types, basically what VLC does, except better and for the entire system and not just VLC.
I suggest you get K-lite codec pack, as it is quite complete

https://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_full.htm

[jimb08]

ok i will try i never used one so it may be the problem ... 

 

[AshleyAshes]

8 minutes ago, jimb08 said:

i dont know what codec is ... 

and I am using VLC 

 

32 or 64bit VLC?

[jimb08]

3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

32 or 64bit VLC?

I dont know where can i see that ? 

[AshleyAshes]

9 minutes ago, jimb08 said:

I dont know where can i see that ? 

If you open Task Manager and see the list of applications running, VLC if 32bit would have (32bit) in brackets.

The default installation for VLC is 32bit and if VLC isn't making use of the hardware decoder it'll use the CPU and there's your problem.  In short, FFMPEG, the open source video decoder that is at the heart of VLC and MANY other open source projects, does NOT have the capibility to do 4K HEVC decoding on ANY CPU when built for 32bit.  You need a 64bit build.

 

This is why for Kodi on Windows, where my systems have big CPUs but no HEVC hardware decoding, I'm running the Kodi 18 Nightly build, since it has a 64bit build.

 

That said your GPU should offer hardware decoding so this could work too: https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding/

[jimb08]

ok i will chek later when i will be at home thanks for the info

[jimb08]

nice you were right it was the 64 bit

 

[GoodBytes]

Windows 10 already comes with many codecs built-in. I just the default player. VLC has a million things, but few works actually well from my experience.