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<blockquote data-quote="Sirc" data-source="post: 321714" data-attributes="member: 83566">Sorry for the delay. I finally got my HTPC hardware in and have begun setting it up from scratch. With a clean install of everything, and the latest SVN and just the Arcsoft codec I am having troubles viewing anything from Media Portal. I get a ton of artifacts that are not present in TME. I might give CoreAVC a try see how that goes. The issue of slow frame rates to start still persists, even in TME, I might need to tweak something in my system.Should I only have one codec installed at a time? I would like to use ffdshow for other media that is why I am asking. I do have currently only one codec installed for H264, which is the Arcsoft codec, however when I install ffdshow for stuff like divx/xvid, etc will that interfere?I'm not sure about VMR9, when I hit shift - 1 it shows VMR9 with an fps of around 60.Update: CoreAVC works much better than the other codecs, the quality seems to be much improved as does performance, the stuttering at the beginning of playback seems to have disappeared also. I noticed on their website that GPU support will be added, does this mean it's not using GPU hardware accelerated H264 decoding as of yet? Just CPU? Either way it works, thanks for the tip. I have noticed something, with all the codecs &amp; applications, on the right hand side the image does not go all the way to the edge of the screen/viewing area, full screen or not. It's almost like there are about 10-20 pixels or so that are missing as the image fades to black. Are any of you guys experiencing this?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sirc, post: 321714, member: 83566"] Sorry for the delay. I finally got my HTPC hardware in and have begun setting it up from scratch. With a clean install of everything, and the latest SVN and just the Arcsoft codec I am having troubles viewing anything from Media Portal. I get a ton of artifacts that are not present in TME. I might give CoreAVC a try see how that goes. The issue of slow frame rates to start still persists, even in TME, I might need to tweak something in my system. Should I only have one codec installed at a time? I would like to use ffdshow for other media that is why I am asking. I do have currently only one codec installed for H264, which is the Arcsoft codec, however when I install ffdshow for stuff like divx/xvid, etc will that interfere? I'm not sure about VMR9, when I hit shift - 1 it shows VMR9 with an fps of around 60. Update: CoreAVC works much better than the other codecs, the quality seems to be much improved as does performance, the stuttering at the beginning of playback seems to have disappeared also. I noticed on their website that GPU support will be added, does this mean it's not using GPU hardware accelerated H264 decoding as of yet? Just CPU? Either way it works, thanks for the tip. I have noticed something, with all the codecs & applications, on the right hand side the image does not go all the way to the edge of the screen/viewing area, full screen or not. It's almost like there are about 10-20 pixels or so that are missing as the image fades to black. Are any of you guys experiencing this? [/QUOTE]

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