CoreAVC 1.9 (1 Viewer)

[mr viggo]

I'm just curious if anyone has tested it with MP. As I remember it, 1.8.5 had some issues. The things I've read about it so far is that the CUDA support still is a bit buggy and not worth using just yet.

About the forceware 182.05 beta, has anyone tested that with MP?

I did a quick test yesterday installing the beta driver and the new coreavc, couldn't play a single file regardless if it was an xvid or x264 with different containers, worked fine though in an other player. Maybe i messed it up, dunno. But I didn't have the time to sink my teeth into it and did a system restore to get things back to "normal"

 

[Spragleknas]

This might be useful information:

Official statement:

The emails are being sent as usual. I have to mention a few things:

- CoreAVC Professional Edition v1.9 supports NVIDIA CUDA hardware acceleration (Standard Edition does not). You need to have the NVIDIA drivers 182.05 or newer.
- Hardware interlaced content falls back to software decoding for now.
- We are aware of an artifacts/blockiness bug and are working on a fix.
- People that asked the support to change their emails, will not get the email, they need to visit CoreCodec and enter the new email

Here is the changelog:

CoreAVC H.264 Video Codec - Version 1.9.0.0 (20090210)
- Add: NVIDIA CUDA accelerated video decoding (Thanks NVIDIA!!!)
- Add: NVIDIA CUDA detection to installer
- Add: Tray icon showing NVIDIA CUDA state (green=in use, blue=not in use)
- Add: Tray icon mouse over shows 32bit/64bit states
- Add: Initial installer changes for 32/64bit
- Add: Updated Haali Media Splitter
- Fix: Focus bug related to MCE
- Fix: Focus prevention when the tray icon is off
- Fix: Improve seeking on frames with one IDR frame
- Fix: Various small bugs

Haali Media Splitter (20090111)
- Add: The shortcut for gdsmux is created in the start menu
- Fix: Broken Matroska files with looped SeekHeads could cause a hang
in Matroska Parser, the number of SeekHeads is now limited to 10
- Fix: Removed the workaround to find tags written by Matroska Shell
Extension, this caused excessive file scanning when opening files
created by recent MKVToolnix
- Fix: File linking is now enabled by default

So what NVIDIA CUDA cards are support? Officially they are:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260/280, 9800, 9600, 9500, 8800 GT, 8700, 8600, 8500, 8400, Tesla S1070/C1060, Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 3600M, Quadro FX 1700/FX 570/ NVS 320M/FX 1600M/FX 570M/FX 370/NVS 290/NVS 140M/NVS 135M/FX 360M/NVS 130M and higher.

If anyone has a question if their NVIDIA video card supports CUDA, look here to see if it is listed:
CUDA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NOTE: CUDA cards MUST ALSO support VP2 or VP3. Look at this chart for more info:
Nvidia PureVideo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Source: CoreCodec Community Forum • View topic - CoreAVC 1.9 released

 

[JackTramiel]

Woohoo, cant believe they made it. Good decision to keep using nvidia.
I wonder if CoreAVCs hardware acceleration wont have a "profile problem" with some "old" 1080p mkvs.
If anyone knows more about it i´d be happy to know. Thanks to infinityloop for continously recommending CoreAVC. ^^

 

[Spragleknas]

If it was up to i-loop everyone would:
a) Use CoreAVC
b) Have DigitalEverywhere TV-cards
c) Use MPA/MPV for SD/sound

(d) respect featurefreezes )

 

[JackTramiel]

Sorry, forgot to mention i bought a FloppyDTV based on his recommendation (and the good reputation in the net)
Do not agree on C - AR just doesnt work with it. ( For me ) Probably good that its not all up to iloop. But was a good hint/recommendation. And totally offtopic.

 

[JackTramiel]

Quote from CoreAVC Forum:

"CUDA is limited to CUDA. CoreAVC's only restriction atm is on higher AVC levels as we limit it to 2048x2048. We plan to remove such restrictions in 2.0 to support such higher level things like Quad HD."

So it seems my question got answered. So all MKVs should play fine with hardware acceleration.

Cant wait for version 2.0.