How to get hardware accelerated H264 playback (DXVA)

[Funtoss]

i shall try this on my comp and post results
lets hope i can get this to work as i m a noob when it comes to video formats and stuff

 

[Mussels]

i shall try this on my comp and post results
lets hope i can get this to work as i m a noob when it comes to video formats and stuff

with a GTX 460, go for CoreAVC with CUDA.

 

[Shou Miko]

i lost the red ball at my dad's pc atm, even it's x264 codec but it says ccv1 at codec and at my pc at home i got a green circle

 

[Mussels]

i lost the red ball at my dad's pc atm, even it's x264 codec but it says ccv1 at codec and at my pc at home i got a green circle

green is CUDA, red is DXVA.

remember that the files have to meet certain criteria for either of them to work.

 

[Shou Miko]

green is CUDA, red is DXVA.

remember that the files have to meet certain criteria for either of them to work.

yeah, ino the colours, but still it's a wierd, that Cuda is better to coding all the x264's codecs like ccv1 and that ^^;

 

[Mussels]

yeah, ino the colours, but still it's a wierd, that Cuda is better to coding all the x264's codecs like ccv1 and that ^^;

DXVA uses a very set specific standard made for BD and HD-DVD disks, so it can only decode files made compatible with those standards (read: about half of the stuff people download)



CUDA skips DXVA completely and decodes using the shaders on the card, so it uses brute force and a more flexible engine to decode the files, even if they're not made properly.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Just to let you know. Ive finally relented and put in an order for one of them Broadcom Crystal HD cards for my laptop. It was a toss up between an 8Gb mini pci-e SSD for Windows ready boost or the Crystal HD. should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday. It was a case of OCD i guess. I couldnt get over the fact that my laptop stutters on when watching 1080p and 1080/720p hogging CPU processing power when watching HD videos. made my laptop fan very noisey when trying to watch any hardware accelerated video at all.

should be interesting to see the results

 

[Mussels]

yep, i am interested in those results so keep us posted.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

All i have to say is WOW. What a difference this card makes! It works for MPC-HC without the need to set any options up at all. just put the card in, install the drivers and off you go!! Im down from 90-99%CPU usage. while watching a HD-BD rip of Expendables to 20-35%. Sometimes it would spike to 60% depending what the scene is. 1080p is completely stutter free. It might not completely offload the decoding from the CPU but it makes a huge difference.

Heres the scene in Expendables where the guys have just pressed the detonator and blown the building

Forgot to include that i have shaders combined:

16-235 -> 0-255 [SD][HD]
Sharpen complex
Sharpen

 

[entropy13]

In my case, no point in using the shaders since it's anime.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I run with shaders by default