How to enable 1080p Hardware acceleration with my 3870?

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Hi people, I have a Visiontek ATI 3870, Cat 8.5, and using Windows Media Player Classic and Last verion of Quick time alternative, real alternative, and ffdshow as video codecs.
Here is a pic of CPU usage while playing last Wall-E Trailer 1080p (last Pixar movie):
http://i32.tinypic.com/2m49idh.jpg
What am I doing wrong? I think its well configurated (see the screen for my options in the video codec).

My Rig is:
Athlon X2 4200@ 2.6Ghz
AsRock NF6G-VSTA Alive
2 Gb DDR2 667Mhz Supertalent
ATI Radeon 3870.
etc...

Thanks in advance.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Don't HD movies use the x264 codec?

 

[BassBomb]

You need a player with hardware acceleration like PowerDVD

Getting other codec's will not help you.

MPC-HC also will work if you add PDVD7 codec as external filter

 

[golem]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
You need a player with hardware acceleration like PowerDVD

Getting other codec's will not help you.

MPC-HC also will work if you add PDVD7 codec as external filter

Do you have to use MPC-HC with the PDVD7 codec or can you use the codec from PDVD8?

 

[Powered by AMD]

So, if I install Power DVD 8 or latest thats all?

Whats MPC-HC (madia Player Classic - ?? ) ??

Thanks guys !

 

[ViRGE]

MPC-HC(Media Player Classic Home Cinema) is a new fork of Media Player Classic that includes additional built-in codecs. Its claim to fame is that its built-in H.264 codec supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding. It's currently the only free software that will do hardware decoding, the other options are WinDVD and PowerDVD, both of which cost money.

 

[Raider1284]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
MPC-HC(Media Player Classic Home Cinema) is a new fork of Media Player Classic that includes additional built-in codecs. Its claim to fame is that its built-in H.264 codec supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding. It's currently the only free software that will do hardware decoding, the other options are WinDVD and PowerDVD, both of which cost money.

So the "H.264 codec [in MPC-HC tha] supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding" wont enabled hardware decoding unless you tell it is use the non-free PDVD codec? That sounds like an awesome feature!

 

[golem]

Originally posted by: Raider1284

Originally posted by: ViRGE
MPC-HC(Media Player Classic Home Cinema) is a new fork of Media Player Classic that includes additional built-in codecs. Its claim to fame is that its built-in H.264 codec supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding. It's currently the only free software that will do hardware decoding, the other options are WinDVD and PowerDVD, both of which cost money.

So the "H.264 codec [in MPC-HC tha] supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding" wont enabled hardware decoding unless you tell it is use the non-free PDVD codec? That sounds like an awesome feature!

Found some links that might help in getting H.264 acceleration to work.

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html

or last posting here.

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=58812

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Raider1284

Originally posted by: ViRGE
MPC-HC(Media Player Classic Home Cinema) is a new fork of Media Player Classic that includes additional built-in codecs. Its claim to fame is that its built-in H.264 codec supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding. It's currently the only free software that will do hardware decoding, the other options are WinDVD and PowerDVD, both of which cost money.

So the "H.264 codec [in MPC-HC tha] supports DXVA, a necessary feature for hardware accelerated video decoding" wont enabled hardware decoding unless you tell it is use the non-free PDVD codec? That sounds like an awesome feature!

No no, you're somehow reading that wrong. MPC-HC comes with an H.264 codec that supports DXVA, which means it supports hardware decoding on its own. You can still use the PDVD codec if you like, but you don't need to (although the MPC-HC codec is still a bit immature right now, so it's not a bad idea).

 

[golem]

Tried it on a 9600GT using the instructions i linked to. It changed my CPU usuage from between 20 to 30% to under 10%. Pretty cool

 

[evolucion8]

Yeah, I made it work using the instructions with the Media Player Classic Home Cinema, even the subtitles works!!! But for some reason, some videos works for a few seconds and then freezes, or half of the image would become green, I tested it using the Fullmetal Alchemist MKV series encoded by AHQ and the movie Conqueror of Shambala works like a charm, but the regular episodes doesn't work at all. The CPU usage went from 19% to 33% max down to 0% 13%, nice boost!!! I'm using the Radeon HD 3850 IceQ AGP.