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Best example I can give is this:  Watching a TV series.  Get to credits, hit stop.  The video will stop fine, it’ll appear to go back out the Netflix selection area.  The Netflix interface is non-responsive (more or less) for about 10-30 seconds before I can back out and select and play the next episode in the series.

I just got a PS3 in which doesn’t have this issue and made the flawed MCE’s interface more noticible.  Video itself is plays great and never has any lag on any system in my place, just the interface.

1)  I’ll disable “automatically detect settings” but I don’t expect that to matter.

2)  My DNS is optimized via http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ and hasn’t had any issues.

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I’ve had the same issue that interface runs poorly under MCE.  Despite having a system that overpowers it, it doesn’t handle multi-threading and likes to choke and bog down.

[oliverredfox]

I don’t know the specs on your TV or HTPC so this may or may not be an option.  There is the potential for audio lag with this depending on hardware, etc.

1)  TV needs to have audio throughput.  For example on my TV, I have all my devices plugged into the TV’s HDMI ins and the TV has both left/right audio outs and Coaxial digital outs from the HDMI’s audio signal.  Not all TVs support this, but a lot of the newer ones do.

2)  Your computer needs to have digital audio input.

3)  Run the game console via HDMI into the TV.  From the TV, run the coaxial digial out into the computer’s digital audio in.  Run software on the computer to play the audio off the digital audio in.  Hope that any lag from this isn’t noticable…

Assuming you have the connectors needed to set it up this way, worse case, it costs you a dollar or two to a buy cable to hook it up and try it out(assuming you don’t have a spare cable laying around).

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[quote=Mike Garcen]if you copy a Blu-ray from your server to the actual client system, does it all play OK? reason for asking, is if the answer is 100% yes, then that helps you isolate what could be going on[/quote]

Yeah, that’s what I meant.  I was thinking along the lines of typical debugging where one isolates the issue and works from there.  Then I went off on the video card tangent because I had an issue with a video card that should’ve been more than powerful enough but had occasional stuttering and an upgrade fixed it.

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So I assume the BR is stored on the W7 Movie Server and you’re trying to watch them on the HTPC.  Do the videos have the same issue if watched dirrectly on the HTPC?  My back of the head thought is a stand alone video card to offload everything.  I’m not familiar with the ‘intel D57DD’ (google didn’t return anything on it), so I just wonder if it might be the bottleneck.

[oliverredfox]

You can keep using dvdfab. http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm is free and does a good job of ripping. I tend to rip discs and leave them as-is, but a friend uses hand-brake to re-encode his (after using dvdfab to rip). He typically goes down to 720p quality to save hard drive space while still maintaining good video quality.

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