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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tourettes" data-source="post: 711126" data-attributes="member: 10858">Re: SAF v5.00 experimental (based on FFDShow DXVA decoder)Off topic - we should really have a separate thread for this - but that testing is quite flawed in several areas if you think HD movies (it suits much better for SD / lower quality clips):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Skin tone correction - this is twisting the whole pciture into using wrong color shades. No one should ever use this at all. Movie studio professionals and the director are probably already picked up the correct colors to be used.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Edge enchanment - Again, to preserve the original video as intented it shouldn't be used at all (it will just create fake sharpness - anyone have seen few Blu-ray masterings that have been already </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Noise reduction - this is a bit tie between use or not. It might be good to be used on some old movies on Blu-ray. But again the movie to BD process is already including this step and the movie studio professionals should pick up the correct amount of noise reduction (of course they could fail <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />). But in that case you would be manually required to switch between the on/off based on the currently played movie since you don't want to be having that noise reduction running on properly mastered movies. So, this is small plus for ATI <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Contrast Enhancement - Shouldn't be used at all - unless you are having some really bad (non calibrated) tv / projector.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Compression Artifacts - nothing to do with HD sourced material. Althou it is good for Youtube generation <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></li> </ul>When comparing the Nvidia's results between products is giving quite odd results. Looks like there could be some quite big issues in their current drivers on some of the latest HW (460 vs. 220 for example).If you are after HD movies there is no real difference if in quality if you pick up AMD or Nvidia GPU. I would pick Nvidia from those two because 1) it has no flickering issue with MP (which AMD still hasn't been able to provide any information to us) 2) AMD's VPU has several flaws with decoding - this happens with minority of the content, but you can ask from MPC-HC devs what tehy think of the VPU and issues it has.If you are mainly after SD (DVD even) content I would recommend to pick AMD card if you feel lucky that the flickering issue wont be happening on your HW combination.</blockquote>

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