MICROSOFT DXVA WMV-HD ACCELERATION PATCH OUT!!!!

[Auric]

Originally posted by: amdnVuser
I think it does to some degree. A friend of mine's machine has a GeforceFX 5200, and when he uses NVDVD w/ hardware acceleration enabled, his CPU usage tops out around 45% whereas it's in the 80-90% range with pure software players like PowerDVD and WMP (w/o the nVIDIA DVD decoder).

PowerDVD does have hardware acceleration, of course. What CPU? 500 MHz?

Results as posted in MPEG-2 HD thread (as opposed to MPEG-2 SD on DVD's):

Radeon with Cyberlink decoder
sans HWA: 27% CPU
avec HWA: 12% CPU

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: amdnVuser

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: amdnVuser

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Does anyone know if installing this will do anything whatsoever for the GeforceFX series. Im thinking no, but just out of pure curiosity.

Is it even allowed to be installed on Geforce FX based machines.

-Kevin

I thought this applied to any DXVA GPU? Am I wrong? Also, I've read that the R520 will include hardware support for H.264 whereas I haven't read anything of the sort for the G70. Doesn't this put nVIDIA in sort of a precarious spot? I have a feeling that H.264 will become much more dominant/used than WMVHD ever will.

YEs but does the Geforce FX series have DXVA acceleration of any kind?

-Kevin

I think it does to some degree. A friend of mine's machine has a GeforceFX 5200, and when he uses NVDVD w/ hardware acceleration enabled, his CPU usage tops out around 45% whereas it's in the 80-90% range with pure software players like PowerDVD and WMP (w/o the nVIDIA DVD decoder).

He must have a slow processor to get such high CPU usage on simple DVD playback. P-II 400 MHz machines could handle DVD playback.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: sxr7171

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: rbV5

Rather dissapointing that acceleration is actually limited to MS's player.

No Kidding, and only decoding at that...and limited in scope as well.
WMV acceleration isn't limited to WMP10, its just that MS is the only one yet to provide access to accelerate WMV in the software. DXVA WMV acceleration has been available since DX9 came out, but you have to code your player to use it, and the graphics card has to have enabled drivers(and of course MS makes canges to the codec also)
Pretty piss poor from all the parties involved IMO, but at least its somewhat working for decoding on the most stressfull titles for "some" hardware.

Yep, it has been quite the debacle all around. At least my 6600GT AGP is decoding WMV HD 1080p very well now so I have one more feature I didn't before, for what that's worth. The fact they borked the 6800 series and have side-stepped the issue has led me to the conclusion that the programmable video processor is best described as PureBullsh!t, not PureVideo.

It's working on my 6800 opened up to the 16 pipes. I just got this card. I was never able to play the 1080 demos, now can play with High Quality checked and they work flawlessly.

Old XP3200+ on ASUS 87N8X-X 1Gb GeiL 6800 AGP

Where do you check high quality?

On Windows Media Player, Tools, Options, Performance, advanced. It's under Video Acceleration.

I spoke too soon. It played all of them well except the SIL demo, that one still a bit jerky but does play. The rest are smoothe.

I find that the "Speed" video is even more resource intensive than SIL. See if that works.

 

[amdnVuser]

Good lord, really? No he has an Athlon64 2800+. In addition, another friend's laptop (Mobility Radeon 9000, PM 1.3) had rather high CPU usage as well w/ PowerDVD 5.0. I'll have to ask about that.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: amdnVuser
Good lord, really? No he has an Athlon64 2800+. In addition, another friend's laptop (Mobility Radeon 9000, PM 1.3) had rather high CPU usage as well w/ PowerDVD 5.0. I'll have to ask about that.

If it was one of those 1080p WMW demos then 85-90% is normal but not for regular DVDs.

 

[Intelman07]

My CPU usage is around 3%-40% with my 6600GT AGP. I think that is pretty good, this is with all the 1080p videos.

 

[biostud]

60-75% 9800pro AXP 2700+

 

[clickynext]

On WMP10 my video is totally out of sync with the sound, but on media player classic it runs perfectly smooth.

AIW 9600 Pro there.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: clickynext
On WMP10 my video is totally out of sync with the sound, but on media player classic it runs perfectly smooth.

AIW 9600 Pro there.

Same here with an X300 using the 5.6 drivers and following ATi's step by step instructions on how to enable WMV hardware acceleration. Even if I turn off the WMV acceleration in the driver control panel, the sound won't sync up with the video. WMP10 seems to be hoplessly FUBARed after the WMV-HD patch. The sad part is that before the patch, my 3.4 GHz Prescott system would actually play the SIL 1080 video perfectly without any hardware assist from the GPU. I just installed the patch to see if there were any improvements in quality with the hardware assist. Luckily I watch most of my video in DiVx, which always seems to work fine no matter what.

 

[kallekill]

There is a performance setting in WMP 10 named something like skip frames to keep audio sync (I can't say exactly because somehow I got Swedish language when updating media player). Before the patch this setting actually did something. With it turned off I get smooth playback but the frames are not decoded fast enough so the video doesn?t keep up with the audio. When turned on the audio is in sync but both the audio and video stutters like crazy. After applying the patch this setting doesn't seem to do anything.

I don't know if I've missed a setting or something. All I did was install the patches. I've tried both overlay mode and not using overlay mode. In overlay mode the CPU is constantly at 100 % but without it turned on the cpu is about 60 % but the video still plays as slow as before and falls out of sync. I also get tearing without overlay turned on, which I don't get in media player classic when using VMR9. I have a 6600 GT AGP card with the latest official drivers and purevideo v1.00.67. Do you have to enable something in the drivers? I remember reading something about an option you had to use some third party program to enable in the drivers to get it to work, but this was a while ago, and i don't know if it was true.

I also messed around with the H.264 quicktime movies apple have on their site. They play much better with the Moonligh decoder than in the Quicktime 7 player. Most 720p movies play fine on my 2.1 GHz P4

 

[bjc112]

I know this is way late, but I though the x800 series didn't support Hardware acceleration?!?!


I can run the 1080p Step In To Liquid trailer and go from 40%- 53%

ZERO skipped frames...

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: bjc112
I know this is way late, but I though the x800 series didn't support Hardware acceleration?!?!

Whaaa? Earlier VPU's do... were just waiting on the software support. Toggle it on and off and see for yourownself (after required patches). 40%- 53% seems high like it is not working but then that is with a pokey AMD CPU 😉

 

[LocutusX]

Ok, so I foolishly installed the DXVA patches (XP SP2 with WMP10 / 9800pro / cat 5.7) ...

Now, no matter whether the "WMV Accel" setting is set to ON or OFF, my "step into liquid" trailer is out-of-synch.

CPU usage is lower than pre-patch (50-60% as opposed to 90-95%) but the fact that audio/video is out-of-synch makes it useless.

Should I just try to uninstall the DXVA patch or would that cause more harm?