Tinkering with using MadVR. I'm still running a 1080p TV, but have plenty of old DVD rips that I haven't updated yet, and my next screen will be 4K capable anyway, so I figured I'd set it up.
This is on an 4-core i5 machine, 8GB RAM, GTX 1650 card (this is a SFF low profile machine) running Windows 10 Pro. MP 1.25 release. HDMI -> Receiver -> TV.
I've had this working smoothly with EVR, dynamic refresh rate changer, and Media Portal Audio Renderer for a while now. Using the latest LAV filters that I have installed (not the one packaged in the MP installer).
So I installed madVR, set conservative settings and set my monitors available refresh rates into it. I disabled MP's refresh rate control, changed the audio renderer back to my monitor, and changed LAV back to bitstreaming and A/V sync enabled. madVR works for material that is 1080p, but when it rescales, the render time goes up to around 85ms and it starts dropping tons of frames (with VERY conservative settings).
I've tried a massive number of combinations of LAV settings and madVR settings and can never get it to stop dropping frames during rescale. Even tried bilinear on everything. No global processing is turned on. Turning off smooth motion had no effect.
The weird thing is if I use the exact same settings (didn't touch LAV or madVR) in MPC-BE on the exact same source material, it's working perfectly and not even breaking a sweat. As a matter of fact, I can nearly max out the scaling settings in MPC-BE and it's still got some headroom. And I verified that MPC-BE is actually using madVR because I can pull up the stats.
Is MediaPortal doing something strange to the chain that would cause madVR to struggle?
I'm back on EVR for now until I have more ideas and a couple of hours to tinker.
This is on an 4-core i5 machine, 8GB RAM, GTX 1650 card (this is a SFF low profile machine) running Windows 10 Pro. MP 1.25 release. HDMI -> Receiver -> TV.
I've had this working smoothly with EVR, dynamic refresh rate changer, and Media Portal Audio Renderer for a while now. Using the latest LAV filters that I have installed (not the one packaged in the MP installer).
So I installed madVR, set conservative settings and set my monitors available refresh rates into it. I disabled MP's refresh rate control, changed the audio renderer back to my monitor, and changed LAV back to bitstreaming and A/V sync enabled. madVR works for material that is 1080p, but when it rescales, the render time goes up to around 85ms and it starts dropping tons of frames (with VERY conservative settings).
I've tried a massive number of combinations of LAV settings and madVR settings and can never get it to stop dropping frames during rescale. Even tried bilinear on everything. No global processing is turned on. Turning off smooth motion had no effect.
The weird thing is if I use the exact same settings (didn't touch LAV or madVR) in MPC-BE on the exact same source material, it's working perfectly and not even breaking a sweat. As a matter of fact, I can nearly max out the scaling settings in MPC-BE and it's still got some headroom. And I verified that MPC-BE is actually using madVR because I can pull up the stats.
Is MediaPortal doing something strange to the chain that would cause madVR to struggle?
I'm back on EVR for now until I have more ideas and a couple of hours to tinker.