install the k-lite codec pack, has everything you need to play everything including media player classic.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm -----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 >
