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And....I gave up...bought a Quad Core and my problems are now gone.

Thanks for your help, I narrowed it down to a codec problem. Some of the full Bluray rips play just fine using the CoreAVC codec using less than 30% CPU, the other rips use Microsofts default codec sending my CPU through the roof. I cant for the life of me figure out why some Bluray rips use one cod...

Ok, I think your dead on with the hardware being good enough. I was able to get Coreavc to run with some of these MKV rips however the ones that dont use Coreavc still use a high CPU. I''ll have to figure this out, thanks guys.

I'm telling you Pete, the E4500 is way more than powerful enough to play .mkv files without problem. VLC isn't a very good player from my experiences, neither is Media Centre. I'd suggest trying the Combined Community Codec Pack and Media Player Classic or KMPlayer with CoreAVC. Still though, are t...

Keep in mind that I have no problem playing back Bluray disks using PowerDVD or Total Media Theater, it's only when I try playing the MKV rips where I run into problems. I have tried using VLC player and Windows 7 Media Center as my players. It seems to boil down to a lack of hardware/GPU decoding n...

This program works great but when I playback the MKV Blueray file I get some slight stuttering. I've tried every codec in the book including running windows 7, my specs are as follows: C2D e4500 (2.1ghz dual core) 4 gigs ram Nvidia 8500GT Do I simply not have enough horsepower to play these MKV file...