LAV Filters and 4k HDR playback on nvidia, whats the secret?

[JeffMD]

So I believe a while ago I got this to work on my msi laptop with 1060gtx by selecting DXVA2 copy-back (Optimus). I am currently trying to get this to work on my 970gtx and NONE of the options work. NVidia and the 2 DXVA2 options are enabled but when I reload a 4k HDR test video it keeps going back to avcodec. The latest nvidia driver is installed and I also updated the lav libraries but to no avail.

 

[nvgpu]

There's no secret, Maxwell GM200 & GM204 doesn't have fixed function HEVC Main10 or VP9 hardware decoder, only Maxwell GM206(4K max res), Pascal(8K max res) & upcoming Volta GPUs have HEVC Main10 and VP9 hardware decoding. Hybrid/partial decoding isn't supported in LAV.

 

[JeffMD]

Interesting, so where do we look for to take advantage of hardware assisted decoding on 9x0gtx cards?

 

[nvgpu]

Nvidia hybrid decoding only works on HEVC 8-bit videos, 10-bit is not supported at all.

Either upgrade to a Pascal GPU or wait for Volta GPUs to be available for 10-bit hardware decoding.

 

[JeffMD]

errr... I am truly flabbergasted. I can't believe hevc 10 bit..the only real hevc since it is needed for hdr, was left out of this. I really don't know what to say... this is like when sony released the ps4 pro..with no blue-ray 4k support. I take back what I say about nvidia, they got lucky with the performance gains 9x and 10x, they still have their heads up their asses. ^^

A new video card would be moot, if I upgraded my video I would just upgrade the aging xeon e1231 and end up with a cpu that could decode it. It isn't an issue at all right now but I am shocked on such an oversight. (Ok, I am also shocked that despite all the CUDA horsepower these things pack, coding it to decode hevc 10bit isn't possible.)

 

[LTC8K6]

Was there another GPU released in 2014 that supported it?