SAF v4.00 ''stable'' (StandAlone Filters) - DXVA ready (H.264 and VC-1). (3 Viewers)

[MrOrsh]

Hey i just found that, this "killer_sample" is not DXVA compatible!

Did you try to configure colours inside MP - DS filters configuration (for MPC-HC Mpeg2 decoder)?

It´s not? That´s news.
But, also. I, as my setup is right now, am able to play the sample without any slowdowns (CPU on about 80-90%).
Is there really any need for me to even use DXVA then?
Will try to reinstall everything again and see if it works since I actually think it has stoped working now (getting about 40% load on regular 720p movies in MPC, and saying DXVA not enbled.

By adding Direct Vob Sub as postprocesing, you killed DXVA for all videos.
You need to put MKV subtitles inside MKV to make them work (but DXVA+subtitles are not possible).

Didn´t really got this untill now.

So you mean that there is actually NO way to get subtitles work when usin DXVA?
Not even by putting them inside the MKV-containers?

I´ve got everything to work now, using MPC vid DXVA (CPU at 2-10% all the time) and ffdshow for DVD and MPEG2. Nothing interfering with one another.

But I´d really like to use subtitles on my MKV-movies thou :/

 

[hoborg]

So you mean that there is actually NO way to get subtitles work when usin DXVA?/

You can use MPC-HC as external player to get DXVA + subtitles, but this is not very good choise.

 

[MrOrsh]

You can use MPC-HC as external player to get DXVA + subtitles, but this is not very good choise.

Well, I guess this is the definitive reason for me to not use DXVA and instead stay with my 720p movies untill I either can by a CPU powerfull enough to handle 1080p (which my sort of can already so I might try some movies and see if sound get´s out of sync or something). Or if someone makes the mkv-subtitle suport bulit in in MediaPortal. I don´t want to use an external program for playback since I´d like to controll everything from inside MediaPortal with my remote.

I will still use the MPC-filter thou (but not with DXVA) since I found it much better than ffdshow or CoreAVC for that matter. Is there perhaps a way to install only the MPC-filter (and VS-filter also I think).?

 

[hoborg]

Good news everyone!
SAF 3.12 out.
I manage to make MPC-HC decoder working for WMV video container too, so WMV + DXVA is possible in SAF 3.12 now!

 

[pilehave]

Good news everyone!
SAF 3.12 out.
I manage to make MPC-HC decoder working for WMV video container too, so WMV + DXVA is possible in SAF 3.12 now!

I couldn't figure it out from the description, but is AC3 Filter part of your solution? I would like to keep it on my system, but is that a problem? AC3 Filter is allready installed and configured and I use it A LOT

 

[hoborg]

Good news everyone!
SAF 3.12 out.
I manage to make MPC-HC decoder working for WMV video container too, so WMV + DXVA is possible in SAF 3.12 now!

I couldn't figure it out from the description, but is AC3 Filter part of your solution? I would like to keep it on my system, but is that a problem? AC3 Filter is allready installed and configured and I use it A LOT

No, AC3 filter is not part of SAF.
But you can use it if you are not happy with MPA audio decoder.

 

[akajester]

Good news everyone!
SAF 3.12 out.
I manage to make MPC-HC decoder working for WMV video container too, so WMV + DXVA is possible in SAF 3.12 now!

You the man Hoborg!

 

[zeebee]

Thanks for your continous work with the MPC-Filter, hoborg! After I found out how to reintialize the display with Catalyst 8.5 under XP, I am back to your Standalone filter pack. Its just not working with my 1080i recordings, but I can playback these with the Cyberlink Codec. So still no perfect solution but a working one.

 

[jacc1234]

I am having the same issues as this henk99 with hd playback using SAF. I will get stuttering DTS audio that will go badly out of snyc. I have tried using MPA and AC3 filter with the same result. If I use CoreAVC playback is fine. I am using an ATI 4350 for video and spdif for audio. I am stuck using the 8.10 hotfix drivers because no other versions support this card. I have tested HW Acceleration using MPC-HC on my setup and it works fine with 2-3% cpu usage. The playback issues are only in MP.

Hi, I have also asked this question in the newcomer forum, but later thought it might be related to the SAF package?

When testing my htpc system with the TV and Receiver, I came across some strange DTS problems.

Some mkv movies with DTS have a strange stuttering sound, while other files with, apparently the same DTS track don't have it, and have normal sound. When looking at the audio properties of both good and bad files, they are a match.

Both of them show in the properties:
DTS 48000Hz 6ch [Audio]

So, I can't find any difference between them. Why is the sound playback good or bad then? Is it decoded badly? I think I have all settings correct, especially as some DTS files are fine....
I have tried MPA, Cyberlink 7.x but found no difference.

BTW...Sound is going through the optical output SPDIF of my Gigabyte GA-MA78 mobo to the receiver.

 

[akajester]

I am having the same issues as this henk99 with hd playback using SAF. I will get stuttering DTS audio that will go badly out of snyc. I have tried using MPA and AC3 filter with the same result. If I use CoreAVC playback is fine. I am using an ATI 4350 for video and spdif for audio. I am stuck using the 8.10 hotfix drivers because no other versions support this card. I have tested HW Acceleration using MPC-HC on my setup and it works fine with 2-3% cpu usage. The playback issues are only in MP.

Hi, I have also asked this question in the newcomer forum, but later thought it might be related to the SAF package?

When testing my htpc system with the TV and Receiver, I came across some strange DTS problems.

Some mkv movies with DTS have a strange stuttering sound, while other files with, apparently the same DTS track don't have it, and have normal sound. When looking at the audio properties of both good and bad files, they are a match.

Both of them show in the properties:
DTS 48000Hz 6ch [Audio]

So, I can't find any difference between them. Why is the sound playback good or bad then? Is it decoded badly? I think I have all settings correct, especially as some DTS files are fine....
I have tried MPA, Cyberlink 7.x but found no difference.

BTW...Sound is going through the optical output SPDIF of my Gigabyte GA-MA78 mobo to the receiver.

you'll definately have problems with the 8.10 drivers. I've tried and you won't be able to get them to work. CoreAVC works because it doesn't use DXVA. Run the file in question and take a snapshot of the graph in Graphstudio, do that for both MPC and MP and compare the results. Something may be misconfigured in MP. OR... the file isn't encoded properly to support DXVA. If you use mkvmergegui to create a small sample of the file we can all test it and see. If it is the file you'll need to re-encode it before it'll work.