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<blockquote data-quote="velis" data-source="post: 490284" data-attributes="member: 96429">Sorry for this stupid question, but does anyone know for sure what the current state of HW video playback acceleration is?The thing is, I have an 8800GTS + HD4350 at home and I have yet to see any CPU usage drop from playing various media.Of course, i only care about H264 since all other codecs are easy enough on the CPU for it to be able to handle them no problem. Usually low resolution helps too.I've tried pretty much every codec out there (CoreAVC, Cyberlink, Avivo, PureVideo), but none of them gave me any good results (read: HW acceleration).Either they wouldn't play the media at all or they simply didn't use HW for acceleration. Well, even if they did, CPU utilization was just about the same as with ffdshow.Note that I recode my camera movies with x264 and also pretty much everything video like (that I have) is x264 as well.I have tried some Apple trailers, MPEG2 and XVID + DivX movies, all without result.So what gives? Am I stupid or am I just using wrong sample movies / codecs / what?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="velis, post: 490284, member: 96429"] Sorry for this stupid question, but does anyone know for sure what the current state of HW video playback acceleration is? The thing is, I have an 8800GTS + HD4350 at home and I have yet to see any CPU usage drop from playing various media. Of course, i only care about H264 since all other codecs are easy enough on the CPU for it to be able to handle them no problem. Usually low resolution helps too. I've tried pretty much every codec out there (CoreAVC, Cyberlink, Avivo, PureVideo), but none of them gave me any good results (read: HW acceleration). Either they wouldn't play the media at all or they simply didn't use HW for acceleration. Well, even if they did, CPU utilization was just about the same as with ffdshow. Note that I recode my camera movies with x264 and also pretty much everything video like (that I have) is x264 as well. I have tried some Apple trailers, MPEG2 and XVID + DivX movies, all without result. So what gives? Am I stupid or am I just using wrong sample movies / codecs / what? [/QUOTE]

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