Core AVC 2 Pro Quality

[jacktesterson]

Hi All,

On my HTPC I've always used CoreAVC 2.0 but I've heard its video quality lacks compared to others.

I also own Power DVD 10 Ultra.

I use Media Center Classic Home Cinema for playback of everything other than blu rays currently.

I'm just wondering if there is something better I should be using for playing 1080p MKV files?

 

[EarthwormJim]

Why not use ffdshow tryouts and enable hardware h.264 decoding? Your 4250 (is that integrated graphics?) I believe has hardware decoding capabilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/download.php

CoreAVC takes some short cuts to be so fast, which is why it has lower quality. Hardware acceleration should have full or nearly full quality of other software decoders, and will be even less taxing on your processor than CoreAVC. You should see 10-15% CPU utilization at most.


You could also just use media player classic's hardware h.264 acceleration. You have to tell it to not use CoreAVC and be sure that it's own internal decoder is enabled.

 

[jacktesterson]

I will give it a go.

Yes its the Integrated Radeon 4200. I fixed my sig.

 

[jacktesterson]

Installed. Works great.

Now as for configuring this version for 1080p MKV's, anything I should be aware of?

 

[Beta_Boy]

CoreAVC takes some short cuts to be so fast, which is why it has lower quality. Hardware acceleration should have full or nearly full quality of other software decoders, and will be even less taxing on your processor than CoreAVC. You should see 10-15% CPU utilization at most.

What? Please know what your talking about. No decoder can take a short cut, period. The stream must be bit for bit exact.... and there is no difference in the quality of any h.264 decoder because of this... no less that of CoreAVC which works just fine.

DXVA however allows even less as it does not allow you to manipulate the video stream.