h.264

shishlik · Post by **shishlik** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:14 pm

i use ffdshow to view h264 encoded content. if ffdshow doesn't do the job maybe you're version isn't good or not "the best" for your cpu.
ffdshow has many versions nowadays and many of them come out with problems and some are better than others.
i currently use this version - http://rapidshare.de/files/17103116/ffd ... 3.exe.html

if ffdshow doesn't do the trick even after that you can try coreAVC like others here suggested. i never tried it but i heard it works for some people that ffdshow isn't fast enough for their machine.

i like experimenting on different software and exploring all the options (to find what's best for playback) so i know mplayer - a player that is actually developed for linux, with a version for windows runs videos at half the resources ffdshow with zoom player takes.
maybe try that?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:21 pm

Joe88 wrote:You shouldnt have much problem running it at full speed as long as you have a powerfull graphics card.

Where do people get this stuff?

NMEisMIA · Post by **NMEisMIA** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:47 pm

Paying for a decoder? That's fucking gay.

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:02 pm

Zarxrax wrote:
Joe88 wrote:You shouldnt have much problem running it at full speed as long as you have a powerfull graphics card.
Where do people get this stuff?

Why from the internet of course.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:07 pm

Your graphics card improves video playback.
Along with the help of your processor.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:55 pm

Joe88 wrote:Your graphics card improves video playback.
Along with the help of your processor.

Almost any graphics card these days supports hardware overlays, which is the big speedup. You can also use 3D rendering hardware to render video, but unless you need to do things that hardware overlays can't do (like running on multiple displays), there's not really a big difference.

There are some graphics cards out there onto which you can actually offload the decoding work, like NVIDIA and ATI's latest cards. That does make a difference in CPU usage.

However, when I write "latest", I really mean "latest".

So, for now, the graphics card still doesn't really matter. The CPU is still the big player.

shishlik wrote:i currently use this version - http://rapidshare.de/files/17103116/ffd ... 3.exe.html

Watch out for the latest updates to ffmpeg; it seems to have trouble properly handling H.263/H.264 streams when built for x86-64 Linux machines.

shishlik · Post by **shishlik** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:27 pm

i have many different sorts of video files on my system (a video for almost any format and codec) from amvs i download. so if there's a problem i notice it almost right away:)

Streicher · Post by **Streicher** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:20 pm

As heard that this SotA-graphicscard decoding works only with their provided special players.

Makes it somehow less attractive imho.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:25 pm

For the most part I work with these files :

VIDEO
AVI (DivX / XviD)
WMV
OGM
MKV
MP4
RM
mpeg1
mpeg2

SOUND
WMA
MP3
MIDI
WAVE

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:58 am

QUICKTIME