I suggest Media Player Classic - Home Cinema edition. It is a project that supports hardware DXVA internally with no external filters/codecs required at all. A new build is released every few days because it is constantly tweaked. You can switch outputs from overley, VMR7/9 (and renderless) plus a hack to use Vista's EVR in XP. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123537
For the rare HD media you encounter out in the wild that wont play nice with MPC-HC, I fall back on WMP 11 and use the codecs in "The Codec" http://www.m5studio.pl/ "The Codec" 8.2 build 8 is simply the best and ONLY codec pack you need for HD playback because it bundles the best software decoder ever, CoreAVC v1.7 (which is commercial software somehow bundled free). CoreAVC w/ special new halaai splitter CoreAAC DivX Xvid AC3 filter I still have issues now and then, but I'm in a LOT better shape these days with MPC-HC and the alternative WMP11 w/ The Codec Pack, a year ago I was pulling my hair out with the musical chairs these bastard codec gremlins had me play. VLC is utter crap. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:32:07 -0700 > Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in > hardware, woot > > I myself use Simple Media Player or Media Player Classic. I also use FFDSHOW > Codex as well. > > Simple Media Player and Codex at http://smplayer.sf.net > > Media Player Classic can be found at > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 > > FFDShow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ > > Good luck, > > Tim "The Beave" Lider > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:25 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in > hardware, woot > > I decided to give this a try with the same video. VLC does choke, > although I am only using less then 20 percent CPU when it chokes. > > How did you get PowerDVD 8 to play the mkv file? It won't play if for > me. I have the same codecs installed, and I have plenty of hardware > muscle to do this. PowerDVD ignores the file. > > > > > At 06:49 AM 5/24/2008, you wrote: >>Just a little success story here, I sourced a cheap Dell for a client >>(seriously good deal IMO, £291 for a Vostro 400 w/ 2.4Ghz Allendale, >>3GB of ram, Terabyte of disk, wireless, Vista Home Premium, set of >>speakers with a sub, a wireless router, a surge protected plugboard.) >>and dropped a 3870 into it, as it's going to be used in a sort of >>media center'ish sort of way plugged into a 32" high def TV >> >>Installed the CCCP codec pack (unchecking use ffmpeg for x264), >>installed PowerDVD 8, turned on hardware acceleration within >>PowerDVD... fired up a 7GB/hr h264 video (It's the Top Gear Polar >>Special in 1080P), which historically completely slaughters machines, >>VLC on the 4Ghz Wolfdale sits at 67% cpu utilisation with it (which >>means a 2.4Ghz chip with 1/3rd the cache has no chance in hell of >>playing it smoothly) >> >>on the 2.4Ghz Allendale... >> >>13% cpu utilization >> >>THIRTEEN PERCENT, good grief, that's probably just the storm of >>interrupts from shuffling the data over the network and to the GPU, wow. >> >>the ease at which this was accomplished is making a Sempron or low end >>A64 X2 on a 780G (which has the same video decoder core of course) >>really really tempting for a media center box.... to replace the >>makeshift E6600/i680/7800GT box I've got performing those duties now >>(with CoreAVC on decoding duty, which is much faster for h264 decode >>than VLC just for the record.) >> >> >>I'm mainly amazed at how easy it was to get it to work :) >> >>So, yeah, groooooooovy :) >> >>-JB >> > > > _________________________________________________________________ Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends
