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, grvy :) -JB
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
OK, but they won't support HD at 1080p? This file is Top.Gear.Polar.Special.2007.BBC-HD.1080p.H.264.AC3.2.0.mkv At 11:32 AM 6/15/2008, you wrote: 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]
Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet cable
None of those brands are really high priced high end either...if you want insane prices to match an insane cable, Krell, Cary, Theta, Mark Levinson fit the bill... Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:27:30 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet cable Yeah, but the types of people who are buying $500 cables are not the types that will typically buy Denon gear. They're more in Marantz, Rotel, NAD, etc. territory. (And even Marantz is pretty low brow in the audiophile world.) Working quite well is another story. I know people with HTIAB systems that work quite well. They sound pretty good to me. DHSinclair wrote: maybe you've never used the Denon POA-3000-5000 series Class A amps. Or their mono-blocs. Have a POA-3000 that works quite well. Different strokes perhaps. Duncan At 22:21 06/13/2008 -0400, you wrote: Nobody has mentioned that audiophiles are not likely to be running Denon gear in the first place. _ Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
With the correct codec they will. Regards, 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 11:49 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot OK, but they won't support HD at 1080p? This file is Top.Gear.Polar.Special.2007.BBC-HD.1080p.H.264.AC3.2.0.mkv At 11:32 AM 6/15/2008, you wrote: 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]
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
Are you sure? I am confused about all this but everything I have read says only PowerDVD 7 with the HD upgrade, and PowerDVD 8 will do this properly. At 12:04 PM 6/15/2008, you wrote: With the correct codec they will. Regards, 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 11:49 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot OK, but they won't support HD at 1080p? This file is Top.Gear.Polar.Special.2007.BBC-HD.1080p.H.264.AC3.2.0.mkv At 11:32 AM 6/15/2008, you wrote: 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]
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
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, grvy :) -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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
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, grvy :) -JB
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
Sorry Hayes but I've got to hugely disagree here, on the basis of a Radeon's UVD beating the snot out of CoreAVC :) using apps like MPC- HCE that bypass the frameworks that enable that seems hugely counter- productive to me. -JB On 15 Jun 2008, at 20:12, Hayes Elkins wrote: 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, grvy :) -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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
At 12:20 PM 6/15/2008, you wrote: It's the PowerDVD8 DirectShow hardware accelerated codec, not the PowerDVD app itself OH, OK... Thanks! The process is thus install ffdshow (for audio formats) being sure to flick off H264 in the install options or in the configuration panel afterwards install PowerDVD 8, go into Powerdvd's settings and turn on hardware acceleration of video play mkv in windows media player (you may have to associate .mkv's with WMP first) On 15 Jun 2008, at 20:09, Winterlight wrote: Are you sure? I am confused about all this but everything I have read says only PowerDVD 7 with the HD upgrade, and PowerDVD 8 will do this properly.
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersin hardware, woot
I've tried it, but if your someone who uses vista media center, etc just grab k-lite. Well, that and anydvdhd, eac3to to archive, and: Mytv (mytv.senseitweb.net) Mymovies (the mytv guys are quickly working on a true mcml app that is flat out awesome) MyNetflix - just so you can play netflix watch it now through your tv. :) And a few other choice apps. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:12:05 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot 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, grvy :) -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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
Are you referring to the ATI post processing features? Because MPC-HC fully supports ATI hardware VC-1 and h264 decoding natively. For properly encoded 1080p media, the less post processing the better, IMO. Deinterlacing, noise reduction, and other UVD perks need not apply. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:23:17 +0100 Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot Sorry Hayes but I've got to hugely disagree here, on the basis of a Radeon's UVD beating the snot out of CoreAVC :) using apps like MPC- HCE that bypass the frameworks that enable that seems hugely counter- productive to me. -JB On 15 Jun 2008, at 20:12, Hayes Elkins wrote: 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, grvy :) -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 _ Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger.
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersin hardware, woot
Side question here guys - what's the process you all use to get x264 HD video from Blu Ray? I want to add my Blu Ray movies to my HTPC RAID array as single-file MKVs. And of course I would much rather have them enocded with MPEG-4 (preferably x264) as they will take up a lot less disk space. All the guides I've seen for taking it from Blu-Ray .m2ts files to a x264 MKV seems to be overly complicated, involving like 6 different apps and re-encoding of the audio as well as the video (not sure why we can't just use the audio the way it is). I just put an AMD 780G mobo in my HTPC and I want to take full advantage of the sweet onboard video as best I can. Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried it, but if your someone who uses vista media center, etc just grab k-lite. Well, that and anydvdhd, eac3to to archive, and: Mytv (mytv.senseitweb.net) Mymovies (the mytv guys are quickly working on a true mcml app that is flat out awesome) MyNetflix - just so you can play netflix watch it now through your tv. :) And a few other choice apps. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:12:05 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot 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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersinhardware, woot
Does it make a difference if original video is VC-1 or H264? What about audio format (TrueHD, DTS, etc)? Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anydvd to get files Eac3to and do this Eac3to.exe 000xx.m2ts whatever.mkv This will generate a master video file (whatever.mkv) and audio streams. If you wish. You can recompress video your call Then using megui, mux whatever.mkv with whatever.ac3 etc Done. Store however you wish. Will now play via anything. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:31:36 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersin hardware, woot Side question here guys - what's the process you all use to get x264 HD video from Blu Ray? I want to add my Blu Ray movies to my HTPC RAID array as single-file MKVs. And of course I would much rather have them enocded with MPEG-4 (preferably x264) as they will take up a lot less disk space. All the guides I've seen for taking it from Blu-Ray .m2ts files to a x264 MKV seems to be overly complicated, involving like 6 different apps and re-encoding of the audio as well as the video (not sure why we can't just use the audio the way it is). I just put an AMD 780G mobo in my HTPC and I want to take full advantage of the sweet onboard video as best I can. Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried it, but if your someone who uses vista media center, etc just grab k-lite. Well, that and anydvdhd, eac3to to archive, and: Mytv (mytv.senseitweb.net) Mymovies (the mytv guys are quickly working on a true mcml app that is flat out awesome) MyNetflix - just so you can play netflix watch it now through your tv. :) And a few other choice apps. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:12:05 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot 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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKVcontainersinhardware, woot
No difference at all. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:03:38 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersinhardware, woot Does it make a difference if original video is VC-1 or H264? What about audio format (TrueHD, DTS, etc)? Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anydvd to get files Eac3to and do this Eac3to.exe 000xx.m2ts whatever.mkv This will generate a master video file (whatever.mkv) and audio streams. If you wish. You can recompress video your call Then using megui, mux whatever.mkv with whatever.ac3 etc Done. Store however you wish. Will now play via anything. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Brian Weeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:31:36 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containersin hardware, woot Side question here guys - what's the process you all use to get x264 HD video from Blu Ray? I want to add my Blu Ray movies to my HTPC RAID array as single-file MKVs. And of course I would much rather have them enocded with MPEG-4 (preferably x264) as they will take up a lot less disk space. All the guides I've seen for taking it from Blu-Ray .m2ts files to a x264 MKV seems to be overly complicated, involving like 6 different apps and re-encoding of the audio as well as the video (not sure why we can't just use the audio the way it is). I just put an AMD 780G mobo in my HTPC and I want to take full advantage of the sweet onboard video as best I can. Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried it, but if your someone who uses vista media center, etc just grab k-lite. Well, that and anydvdhd, eac3to to archive, and: Mytv (mytv.senseitweb.net) Mymovies (the mytv guys are quickly working on a true mcml app that is flat out awesome) MyNetflix - just so you can play netflix watch it now through your tv. :) And a few other choice apps. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:12:05 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot 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
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
I must be really out of the loop. I watch mostly everything with VLC or GomPlayer, they both don't need codecs, and do fine for my movies and videos. :) On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Hayes Elkins wrote: 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.
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
I use GOM too but the issue with BluRay/HD-DVD is the encryption. Only PowerDVD and one other software player legally have the decryption keys to playback both of those formats on a PC. So if you have unencrypted video go ahead and use GOM. Brian On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:51 PM, John Steinbruner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be really out of the loop. I watch mostly everything with VLC or GomPlayer, they both don't need codecs, and do fine for my movies and videos. :) On Jun 15, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Hayes Elkins wrote: 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.
[H] ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
I am not an over clocker, or a gamer so it seems odd that I am thinking about buying this motherboard ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131284nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-ASUS-_-13131284 to pair with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail but I like it's feature rich design, new power saving features, the new X48 chipset and most importantly it supports my Corsair XPS2 DDR2 800MHz RAM. Any comments, advice? thanks
[H] HD PC recording
Pressed between the mountains and the Pacific, and under assault from marine band interference,I am in a area that doesn't really have any decent over the air TV. Before cable came along in the sixties, we got 2 to 10 channels with large rooftop anttena and only one local channel with rabbit ears. So HD over the air has never been an option for me. I have COX cable with an HD box. There is no QCAM support nor is their digital over cable without a convertor of some kind. I can record anything playing on the cable box with S-VIDEO using Line IN to a PC capture card for a very pristine result ... but it is not HD. This is the best way to record anything as I have yet to find a PC analog TV turner that does a decent job. There are lots of new stand alone HD TV recording boxes on the market now, that allow you to record and archive HD broadcasts from your HD cable box, ... anybody have a recommendation ?but is there anything around that will do it from your PC... or is it even worth the effort to do it that way anymore? It is best just to get a HD-DVR and transfer the files to your PC for archiving. COX tells me that they will continue to support Analog for at least 3 years after the switch. However, if you buy a Hauppauge card with a digital tuner on it now, what does this mean exactly. I can't watch Digital cable now without a COX digital cable box... so will the Hauppauge digital tuner be able to replace the COX digital box once the switch takes place? Or is that just for over the air broadcasts? BTW Opera 9.5 is out and it has some fantastic improvements
Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot
ah, I wasn't aware that MPC-HC hooked into the UVD unit on the Radeon What I said does stand with relation to CoreAVC though :) -JB On 15 Jun 2008, at 20:30, Hayes Elkins wrote: Are you referring to the ATI post processing features? Because MPC- HC fully supports ATI hardware VC-1 and h264 decoding natively. For properly encoded 1080p media, the less post processing the better, IMO. Deinterlacing, noise reduction, and other UVD perks need not apply. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:23:17 +0100 Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot Sorry Hayes but I've got to hugely disagree here, on the basis of a Radeon's UVD beating the snot out of CoreAVC :) using apps like MPC- HCE that bypass the frameworks that enable that seems hugely counter- productive to me. -JB On 15 Jun 2008, at 20:12, Hayes Elkins wrote: 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, grvy :) -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
Re: [H] ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
TBH, I'd recommend you buy an Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP (which I've built several machines around and they're all awesome) and leave it at that a top of the line S775 board seems like a silly investment at this point when it'll be very obsolete in ~6 months as Nehalem launches On 15 Jun 2008, at 22:00, Winterlight wrote: I am not an over clocker, or a gamer so it seems odd that I am thinking about buying this motherboard ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131284nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-ASUS-_-13131284 to pair with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail but I like it's feature rich design, new power saving features, the new X48 chipset and most importantly it supports my Corsair XPS2 DDR2 800MHz RAM. Any comments, advice? thanks
Re: [H] ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
Well, I have no use for Wi-fi on this board, and anything now is always going to be obsolete in six months. But I keep my setups for years so for me the top end always seems to work out. A motherboard isn't something you want to change once you are up and running, like say a CPU or more RAM. Besides the cost difference is 150 US, not a lot of money to buy in the top end. It isn't like it is a 500 dollar Striker Extreme! thanks for the comment. At 04:50 PM 6/15/2008, you wrote: TBH, I'd recommend you buy an Asus P5K-E/Wifi-AP (which I've built several machines around and they're all awesome) and leave it at that a top of the line S775 board seems like a silly investment at this point when it'll be very obsolete in ~6 months as Nehalem launches On 15 Jun 2008, at 22:00, Winterlight wrote: I am not an over clocker, or a gamer so it seems odd that I am thinking about buying this motherboard ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131284nm_mc=OTC-Frooglecm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Motherboards+-+Intel-_-ASUS-_-13131284 to pair with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail but I like it's feature rich design, new power saving features, the new X48 chipset and most importantly it supports my Corsair XPS2 DDR2 800MHz RAM. Any comments, advice? thanks
Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet cable
Right. My knowledge of the super high end is limited. :) I have a Marantz SR-8200 receiver that I bought back in 2002 that's still humming along nicely. 90% of the time it's on playing Dora the Explorer DVD's for my daughter, so it's not like I'd have any need to update anytime soon. Hayes Elkins wrote: None of those brands are really high priced high end either...if you want insane prices to match an insane cable, Krell, Cary, Theta, Mark Levinson fit the bill... Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:27:30 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] OT - Proof that audiophiles are idiots- the $500Ethernet cable Yeah, but the types of people who are buying $500 cables are not the types that will typically buy Denon gear. They're more in Marantz, Rotel, NAD, etc. territory. (And even Marantz is pretty low brow in the audiophile world.) Working quite well is another story. I know people with HTIAB systems that work quite well. They sound pretty good to me.
[H] backup software
Just broke down and bought the MyWorld 1 TB external harddrive. This is tne one that is networkable. Have 2 issues. 1. My router Linksys 310N seems to handle it ok, but the status light on the router glows yellow instead of the normal electric blue. I can read and write to the drive and I see it on the network. Just wondering what that might be. I haven't researched on Linksys web site yet, but thought I would throw it up here for ideas first. 2. The back up software (Mionet) that come with it is HORRIBLE! What I want is a program that would be able to look at the 2 desktops and 1 laptop that are on the network, and back them up in an easy to reinstall (after a major crash) all files that are needed to bring the system back. Also, would like it to look at the systems each day and update its own back up. Any suggestions? If its freeware that is great, but I am willing to pay for a package that will do what I need. Any suggestions on the 2 issues appreciated/ Hbest _ Search that pays you back! Introducing Live Search cashback. http://search.live.com/cashback/?pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=srchpaysyouback
