[sofa-spud]

Ok,
Dont know what I've done, but I'm suddenly getting much better performance...
Maybe someone can figure something out from this info, & sorry for the long post...

All this is on a barton cored CPU clocked to 2200MHz, 512MB RAM, 6600 video card(128MB RAM):

I recorded some stuff from BBC and ITV HD using DigiTV s/w
I could play this back using MPC and the cyberlink codec as suggested by monopole, Video played back approx 9 frames/sec. While I could hear the ITV audio(stereo I believe), I couldnt hear the BBC(5.1 on the recorded file) to either the sound card analogue o/p nor the S/PDIF to the av processor.

I tried the CoreAVC 1.1.05 codec and suffered massive green blocking and still no 5.1 sound. This was with deblocking and interlacing off.

Today I set the digitv s/w to record the England game(22GB!) which it appears to have done as a .ts rather than .mpg as before.

The sound now appears on the analogue o/p & S/PDIF, which the TAG sees as stereo, and the video plaback is 18-19 frames/sec using the coreavc codec (~12/sec using the cyberlink codec).
Much better, but now the video slowly begins to lag the audio(due to the slow frame rate playback I presume?) to the point where the picture shows the players about to kick-off, but the audio has just described Englands goal!

So;
Any Gurus out that might explain any of the above?

Anyone seen any issues with the 5.1 sound tracks from the BBC?

Is there any difference when recording (with digitv) a single program rather than entire ts that might explain the above audio issue?

After all this I still think I need to upgrade...

John