codec guide (2 Viewers)

[Goose]

It seems rather strange/daft to hijack my own thread but...

Does anyone have any issues, specifically dropping frames and stuttering audio, playing back stuff with vorbis audio in MP? It's strange because the files work great outside of MP id est. WMP and MPC, hell even VLC. I just downloaded the official Xiph codecs so i will try them out when i can. My motherboard was stuffed so the media centre is down.

I will fire up graphedit when i can to see if ffdshow is actually getting the audio.

Anyway any thoughts would be much obliged.

 

[mickelin]

mickelin try this: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ec-keeps-using-default-xvid-33968/#post236361

Thanks Vuego, it was indeed a merit issue. I had changed the merits, but forgot to re-boot...

 

[chemelli]

Goose, configuration screen of MP has slightly changed in the past days. Maybe you can update your guide.

Simone

 

[Goose]

chemelli
I will update it shortly, seems the evr bit has changed and a couple of other things.

 

[vur]

Hi Goose & thanks for your guide.

About re-size. I see you prefer it via GPU and I would think that would be preferable to reduce CPU load. Is that your reasoning too, as I haven't seen other guides mentioning it and wonder why?

I output video to a projector via a GeForce6600 card using a custom 1368x668 res to obtain a picture with zero overscan. By so doing, am I re-sizing as you mean it i.e. I need not use the re-size of ffdshow? I have tried re-size to 1920 with ffdshow at the same time as my custom res. and it seems better, except that playback tends to be jerky.

I think I have a fundamental lack of understanding in this area.

 

[Goose]

vur

Yeah gpu resize is essentially free... as long as your video card can handle it.

If you like the quality of the gpu resize I would leave ffdshow's resize disabled.

BTW are you using VMR or EVR? If you're using VMR then try using guassian quad as the render mode.

 

[frankwaan]

Hi Goose,

What do you mean by GPU resize, how can this be done?

Greets,
Frank

 

[Goose]

frankwaan

GPU resize is when you make mediaportal full screen and the video makes the movie fit the entire screen.

FFDshow has a function to do this for you but it uses the CPU instead.

 

[frankwaan]

Hi Goose,

Thanks. Used FFDShow for resizing (upscaling DVD's), to my TV's native resolution (1920x1080). The problem is that is consumes loads of CPU power (even on my AMD X2 4850, so I now use FFDshow for denoising / sharpening only, and let the PowerDVD codec do the job. Didn't know resizing without FFDshow triggered the GPU to do the job. Thanks!

 

[einstein72]

...and let the PowerDVD codec do the job.

Do you mean you use PowerDVD codec to resize? And how do you do that? I can't find any PDVD setting that can do that. Could you tell us how?
Thanks.