Germany
Hallo,
in the last time I struggle quite hard to get HD TV (Germany ARD and ZDF HD) running
especially I try to find a usable h.264 decoding filter (Win7 64bit) but without good success.
Here are my experiences:
1. Microsoft DVT filter
The filter is in principle working but unfortunately I get artefacts (it seems that frames are mixed up).
I do not get this artefacts all the time but quite often even without any dropouts and with stable 50Hz frame rate (shift+1 view) and with low CPU load.
2. MPC video decoder (I manual register MPCVideoDec.ax from the MPC standalone filter pack).
This filter sometimes does not start at all (when I'm switching to a HD channel) and Mediaportal hangs.
If it is running then everything is fine, stable and no dropouts (low CPU).
When I remotly connect to the graph (using graphedit) and stop and start the graph again it is (sometimes) working and sometimes not.
So I can try to start and stop until it is working.
Something seems to be unstable when rendering starts up.
3.Divx h.264 filter
Unfortunately this filter uses no HW support and therfore I get some dropouts because
TVService uses a lot CPU (for some seconds) after I switch to another channel and there are not enouch CPU power left at this time.
Unfortunately I get not that stable framerateas with the other filters and the (shift+1) graphs are quite spiky.
4. Power DVD filters
no experience
It could be that these problems have nothing to do with Mediaportal at all but
it would be quite helpful if someone at least can confirm some of this issues.
I have not added any log yet but I can do If there is someone else with the same issues but as
I could see in the logs they seem to be ok since this is more a rendering problem.
Maybe this issues are already known and I have missed them in the forum.
The "new" core.dll does not change anything and also the lates SVN (25334 which I have build by my own) does not fix anything above
The problems are still there.
in the last time I struggle quite hard to get HD TV (Germany ARD and ZDF HD) running
especially I try to find a usable h.264 decoding filter (Win7 64bit) but without good success.
Here are my experiences:
1. Microsoft DVT filter
The filter is in principle working but unfortunately I get artefacts (it seems that frames are mixed up).
I do not get this artefacts all the time but quite often even without any dropouts and with stable 50Hz frame rate (shift+1 view) and with low CPU load.
2. MPC video decoder (I manual register MPCVideoDec.ax from the MPC standalone filter pack).
This filter sometimes does not start at all (when I'm switching to a HD channel) and Mediaportal hangs.
If it is running then everything is fine, stable and no dropouts (low CPU).
When I remotly connect to the graph (using graphedit) and stop and start the graph again it is (sometimes) working and sometimes not.
So I can try to start and stop until it is working.
Something seems to be unstable when rendering starts up.
3.Divx h.264 filter
Unfortunately this filter uses no HW support and therfore I get some dropouts because
TVService uses a lot CPU (for some seconds) after I switch to another channel and there are not enouch CPU power left at this time.
Unfortunately I get not that stable framerateas with the other filters and the (shift+1) graphs are quite spiky.
4. Power DVD filters
no experience
It could be that these problems have nothing to do with Mediaportal at all but
it would be quite helpful if someone at least can confirm some of this issues.
I have not added any log yet but I can do If there is someone else with the same issues but as
I could see in the logs they seem to be ok since this is more a rendering problem.
Maybe this issues are already known and I have missed them in the forum.
The "new" core.dll does not change anything and also the lates SVN (25334 which I have build by my own) does not fix anything above
The problems are still there.
