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<blockquote data-quote="Kotik" data-source="post: 585816" data-attributes="member: 89825"><p>Received the card yesterday and conducted some tests.</p><p></p><p>It works the way i mentioned in the post above. During installation it will register a DS filter called "Broadcom Video Decoder" and all you have to do is to use this filter under any DS player. The hardware itself supports H.264p/i, VC-1p/i and MPEG & MPEG2.</p><p></p><p>So i tried almost all of the formats that are supported and they do work. Latest drivers do have a small glitch on 23.976 content since while the source material is 23.976 the codec will try to output 23.971 which will result to some occasional stutter. Now this can be easily solved by using an older driver release which will output 23.976. </p><p></p><p>Most important is that it does support interlaced VC-1.</p><p></p><p>Pros--> </p><p></p><p>1. You don't need any other HD codecs installed on your system, you just install it and all the HD material will work (be advised that it will not work with video files that are not encoded with DXVA standards. So High Profile 5.1 with 16 ref. frames won't work). </p><p></p><p>2. Low power consumption.</p><p></p><p>3. Easy to setup.</p><p></p><p>4. Can be used with any DS based player.</p><p></p><p>5. Post-processing can be performed! Yes that's right you can finally use any kind of post-processing.</p><p></p><p>6. Price.</p><p></p><p>Cons--></p><p></p><p>1. Lack of advanced HD deinterlacing. Although this one can be solved by just forcing the card to output interlaced so that the GPU can do the deinterlacing.</p><p></p><p>2. Occasional stutter. I am using MPC-HC to conduct my tests and i did notice stutter almost with all the material. Same material works smooth under my ION DXVA setup. The reasons for this might be countless, drivers, splitter, source file etc. BUT important thing is that it is not as smooth as i would like it to be. Don't get me wrong, most people won't notice any of this stutter, but for those that want to have a perfect stat. output graph in MPC-HC under the correct output HZ will be a bit disappointed. </p><p></p><p>3. Availability in Europe. </p><p></p><p>Something worth to mention is that i was unable to use the Broadcom codec successfully under MP since by default the codec has deinterlacing ON and i have to turn it off and while i can do it over MPC-HC and Graph Studio and get each time the right instance of the codec, under MP i have no access to the codec page configuration and this will result in MP using always the codec with it's default settings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kotik, post: 585816, member: 89825"] Received the card yesterday and conducted some tests. It works the way i mentioned in the post above. During installation it will register a DS filter called "Broadcom Video Decoder" and all you have to do is to use this filter under any DS player. The hardware itself supports H.264p/i, VC-1p/i and MPEG & MPEG2. So i tried almost all of the formats that are supported and they do work. Latest drivers do have a small glitch on 23.976 content since while the source material is 23.976 the codec will try to output 23.971 which will result to some occasional stutter. Now this can be easily solved by using an older driver release which will output 23.976. Most important is that it does support interlaced VC-1. Pros--> 1. You don't need any other HD codecs installed on your system, you just install it and all the HD material will work (be advised that it will not work with video files that are not encoded with DXVA standards. So High Profile 5.1 with 16 ref. frames won't work). 2. Low power consumption. 3. Easy to setup. 4. Can be used with any DS based player. 5. Post-processing can be performed! Yes that's right you can finally use any kind of post-processing. 6. Price. Cons--> 1. Lack of advanced HD deinterlacing. Although this one can be solved by just forcing the card to output interlaced so that the GPU can do the deinterlacing. 2. Occasional stutter. I am using MPC-HC to conduct my tests and i did notice stutter almost with all the material. Same material works smooth under my ION DXVA setup. The reasons for this might be countless, drivers, splitter, source file etc. BUT important thing is that it is not as smooth as i would like it to be. Don't get me wrong, most people won't notice any of this stutter, but for those that want to have a perfect stat. output graph in MPC-HC under the correct output HZ will be a bit disappointed. 3. Availability in Europe. Something worth to mention is that i was unable to use the Broadcom codec successfully under MP since by default the codec has deinterlacing ON and i have to turn it off and while i can do it over MPC-HC and Graph Studio and get each time the right instance of the codec, under MP i have no access to the codec page configuration and this will result in MP using always the codec with it's default settings. [/QUOTE]
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