M370X Decoding support?

[king of swag187]

Just been given a MBP 2015 as a present, and given it came with a M370X/Iris HD 5200, and I'm in need of a mobile decoder/encoder, does anyone know if a M370X can do H.265, or is it limited to H.264?

 

[SoNic67]

The theoretical support for video decoding and encoding on Intel Video SIP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology#Capabilities_.28GPU_video_acceleration.29
Your CPU probably is a Haswell gen if contains HD5200. It's hardware SIP is H264/MPEG4 AVC, 1080p only. H265 hardware decoding is partial, completed by software (drivers).

And for AMD M370X (scroll down to mobile):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_300_series#Mobile
That AMD can decode/encode only H264, 1080p, in hardware SIP.

For an actual software that supports hardware decoding and encoding see this (scroll down):
https://www.cyberlink.com/products/mediaespresso/support_en_US.html

 

[king of swag187]

Thanks, correct in that its a 4980HQ, crystalwell technically, and I'd prefer to use a free alternative such as Handbrake or VLC. Thanks again

 

[SoNic67]

Handbrake supports HW encoding, but it will be still at H264, because that's what you have in the CPU/GPU. And in my testing actual HW support was iffy, but this was a couple years ago, latest version might be better.

VLC AFAIK doesn't do encoding.

 

[king of swag187]

I use VLC to convert MKV's into MP4's, and handbrake to encode the files.

 

[silentbogo]

does anyone know if a M370X can do H.265, or is it limited to H.264?

M370X cannot do HEVC encode/decode natively cause it has old VCE1.0, but at least the x265 website has DirectShow plugin for accelerated playback on older cards (e.g. for Radeon 200-300 series and GeForce 600-700 series w/o native support). Not sure, but it's probably OpenCL-based. Slower than hardware encode, but still better than offloading the whole thing onto the CPU.
HD5200 can do accelerated HEVC decoding w/ latest drivers, but I doubt it will do encode.
Basically you are fine in regards of h264, but 265 can be coded only in software.