Confirm DXVA is working? (2 Viewers)

[gserg]

Is there a way to confirm that I my installation is using DXVA with my ATI HD 4550? Maybe someway in the CCC or in MP itself to confirm that it is actually being used like I think it is? Specifically with MPEG2 HD TV viewing but I guess it would be nice to confirm it with H.264 video files as well.

Thank you for any suggestions

 

[edterbak]

I think the easiest way is to first start your task manager. There is a graph there for cpu utilisation. Start mediaportal and wait a bit. There are a lot of things runnin in the background for the first couple of minutes. Then do a test with h.264 (720p/1080p) file for 10-20 seconds. Exit mediaportal and look at the graph on how high it was. You should see stable cpu levels of 0-10%, it is almost 100% sure using dxva in that case. Ofcourse this is depending on the cpu strength you are using. If its not using dxva you can expect cpu levels of 25-100%, again, dependin on the cpu.

Good luck

 

[Owlsroost]

....or run MP in windowed mode, play a video, then use GraphStudio (see the link in my sig below) to 'connect to remote graph' -> right click on the video decoder filter -> properties -> output pin - it should say somewhere in the info that it's connected to the renderer using DXVA.

Tony

 

[edterbak]

....or run MP in windowed mode, play a video, then use GraphStudio (see the link in my sig below) to 'connect to remote graph' -> right click on the video decoder filter -> properties -> output pin - it should say somewhere in the info that it's connected to the renderer using DXVA.

Tony

Your right, that is also possible. It used to work like that a long time ago for me. but for some reason its not possible for me anymore to use dxva/codecs/mp windowed mode like that with the same results as fullscreen mode.. Crashes, torn video's or no video at all.... Dont know why though. MP or filter/codec or XP bug.... The way I suggested seems to always works here.

 

[gserg]

Thank you both. I have used the task manager to watch the CPU usage and my CPU usage is in the 20-40% range when watching HD MPEG2 live TV. But my CPU is probably underpowered by most standards. It is an old Northwood P4 3Ghz.

I will have a look at it with Graph Studio and see what I can see.

Thanks again

 

[Owlsroost]

Thank you both. I have used the task manager to watch the CPU usage and my CPU usage is in the 20-40% range when watching HD MPEG2 live TV. But my CPU is probably underpowered by most standards. It is an old Northwood P4 3Ghz.

That's probably about right on a P4 - my Core2Duo 2.2 GHz runs about 10-20% decoding HD MPEG2 - under Vista neither ATi or nVidia support much in the way of MPEG2 decode acceleration, most of it is done by the CPU (but they support full acceleration for H.264).

Tony