Codecs, Filters & File Formats

[khat17]

LMAO - Thanx for that one NESTERSAN - needed a good laugh. Some people just dense man..........But if it work for him leave him be. When him can't play something I wont say I told him so.

On another note - what U using, ATI or nVidia? I need someone to test the hardware video decoding on an ATI card.

[death_knight]

I need to try these. i got hellsing ultimate ova's and they're in ac3 every other player all running off the klite pack gives me audio n nothing more. had me wondering if thats ac3 gives.

[Nestersan]

ATI x1950, no accel for me..... but Dual Core saves the day.. H264 8GB movies FTW!!

[khat17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified...D_enabled_GPUs

For ATI - the cards must have UVD support (Unified Video Decoder). See link above and/or listing below. I you have one of those cards or later, please run the test and let me know. Also, please read the WIKIPEDIA link above.


RV770 Radeon HD 4800 Series UVD 2.2
RV730 Radeon HD 4600 Series UVD 2.2
RV710 Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series UVD 2.2
RV670 Radeon HD 3800 Series UVD+
RV635 Radeon HD 3600 Series UVD+
RV620 Radeon HD 3400 Series UVD+
RV630 Radeon HD 2600 Series UVD
RV610 Radeon HD 2400 Series UVD

RS780/RS780D Radeon HD 3200/AMD 780G Chipset
Radeon HD 3300 IGP/AMD 790GX Chipset UVD+

M88 Mobility Radeon HD 3800 Series UVD+
M86 Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series UVD+
M82 Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series UVD+
M76 Mobility Radeon HD 2600 Series UVD
M72 Mobility Radeon HD 2400 Series UVD
M71 Mobility Radeon HD 2300 Series UVD

Basically - any of the RADEON HD's will do.

[Nestersan]

1.14% there abouts. Disabled everything and left the ATi Encoder thingy in place..
4850 512 MB

[Genesis2kx]

Hmm, well I guess it makes sense to upgrade. I think this should do the trick
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131324
It has ATI Radeon HD 3200 onboard and a AMD 780G Chipset. Also has displayport and HDMI as bonuses

For CPU AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor. That should do the job easily at 2.5GHZ and at 45W makes nice power savings for the HTPC.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103255

Add 2gb of ram for 30 and that should be a nice HTPC for $170. drop in all the other essentials from my build, PSU, Case, DVD-ROM.

Any thoughts?

[Aldayne]

...QUICKTIME ALTERNATIVE
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm

This solved a macromedia error i encountered a few moths ago with some tutorials. The Quicktime installers did nothing but this works like a charm. Thx khat17.

[MhadbwoY]

Having SERIOUS problems with CCCP and MPC-HC....

I am trying to get it to put the load on the Video Card instead of the CPU like u explained... i did all wat u said in the walk through but nothing seems to work.

Whenever i select "H264/AVC (DXVA)"

then go to the Play > Filters option.. these is no MPC Video Decoder, instead there is ffdshowVideoDecoder instead of MPC Video Decoder...

However if i was to select "H264/AVC (FFmpeg)" instead of "H264/AVC (DXVA)" then i would be able to see the "MPC Video Decoder" option instead of ffdshowVideoDecoder...

I have reinstalled the whole CCCP thing over and over and restarted countless times... so i just want to know what is the next step...

How can i get this to work... And i did the test with both Max Payne 1080p trailer and The Dark Knight 1080p sample.

[khat17]

Please ensure that if you're using the internal filters in MPC-HC that you turn off the corresponding filters in FFDSHOW. Check and post your results.


*EDIT*




Note the pics. I am seriously too lazy to go edit them over again. Just ensure that in all your settings (START/PROGRAMS/CCCP/FILTERS) in FFDShow VFW Codec Configuration and FFDShow Video Decoder Configuration are set to DISABLED. If not, your system is going to work with the default registered filter which is FFDSHOW. In the settings shown those are what you would use if you are going to have FFDSHOW do the H264 decoding. I'd suggest using the INTERNAL FILTERS in MPC-HC and use DXVA for regular baseline H264 encodes, and for other non-standard encodes (where the playback jitters) use the FFMPEG setting from within MPC-HC's internal filters option. I'll probably edit and add to the tutorial later on.......

[MhadbwoY]

Well i went into the stated options... and disabled everything as i think u are saying....





Then when i try to open the vid with H264/AVC (DVXA) selected in the Internal Filters Option i get this error...



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*EDIT*

Then tried a Dark Knight 1080p sample and it didnt give the error.... instead it just went on to play audio alone... no vid..

I went throght the troubleshooting list u gave and did everything except,

-You have not blocked VobSub and switched to MPC's internal subtitle filter. Block VobSub, and check "Auto-load Subtitles" in the Playback page of MPC's settings.

i dont know wat is meant to just "Block" the VobSub... In fact i do not see it anywhere to disable...