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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thijs_O" data-source="post: 346282" data-attributes="member: 85889">Some advice which will hopefully help you on your way:Installing SAF with the PowerDVD-codec (which is, by the way, just for MPEG-2/SD, not HD) is one thing, but you'll have to actually select the correct codecs to get the whole system running as you intended it to run. This is explained in the first post of the SAF-topic where you also found the installation guide. For now, I'll assume you have selected the MPC - Video Decoder for H.264-video. Also, I'm guessing the movie you're trying to play back is is a .mkv movie. This should play back fine if you selected the MPC-codec following the SAF-guide. There isn't actually a button in Mediaportal, especially with 'external' codecs, which lets you 'turn on'  DXVA(=Hardware Acceleration). If you have the correct codec selected, it should go automatically. Anyway, you should check the SAF-topic for a description about GraphStudio. With this application you can see exactly which codec is being used during movie playback, and if it uses a DXVA-codec (like MPC-HC codec) it'll be using DXVA. For more information about GraphStudio, read the first post of the SAF-topic. You could also take a look at your task manager during movieplayback, if CPU-usage is very low (5-10%) you're most likely using DXVA.If you need deinterlacing: yes, you most likely do. Take a look at this:<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Interlacingani2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Obviously, you'll want the picture on the most left or otherwise the picture on the right. Those in between aren't really something you want, right? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> I'm not an expert on Interlacing/Deinterlacing so perhaps you'll want to read up on it at Wikipedia or something, but you'll most likely want to have some form of deinterlacing. A good example of bad deinterlacing on television: go to a channel which has a ticker somewhere on the screen, like a newschannel. With bad deinterlacing, this tickerbox will be flickering a lot. Good deinterlacing fixes this. But there are many other examples of bad deinterlacing resulting in bad picturequality. So yeah, deinterlacing is something you'll want.</blockquote>

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