H.264 hardware acceleration with GPU under XP

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Seasport

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#20824 7-Apr-2008 11:08

I've got DVB-T HD working with DVBViewer OK. However, on my 3GHz P4 the decoding is too slow. CPU at 100% for 1080i on TV3.

Curently using the codec which comes with Twinhan digital TV (which is a version of the PowerDVD codec). Seems to work fine at least with s/w decoding. Geekiegeek has reported that he has got this codec working with h/w acceleration as well.
See: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=84&TopicId=20747

I've got an 8500GT GPU which supports hardware H.264. If I can get the h/w decoding working, I think all should be sweet on my PC. I know that you can get this working with Vista and EVR with the PowerDVD codecs. I think you may also be able to get it working with XP as well. Seems you need a non offical ForceWare XP driver 165.01 for the Nvidia GPU. See this link:

http://www.dvbnetwork.eu/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=26&func=view&id=194&catid=2&limit=20&limitstart=20

Anyone tried this yet? Want to give this a go before I fork out yet more money for a Vista upgrade.

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#121782 7-Apr-2008 14:32

I thought EVR on XP was available after installing SP3....

Haven't tried it meself not having a video card or tv big enough..

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#121790 7-Apr-2008 14:44

davidcole: I thought EVR on XP was available after installing SP3....

Haven't tried it meself not having a video card or tv big enough..

I don't believe EVR under XP actually supports DXVA2 hardware acceleration.

PowerDVD under XP uses it's own custom hardware acceleration so providing you are using the PowerDVD codec then it should work.

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#121801 7-Apr-2008 15:23

Thanks. Do you know how I enable the hardware decoding to work with DVBViewer? Do I do this is PowerDVD or DVBViewer or both?

I note that I can select the EVR option in DBViewer with XP but not sure that it does anything.

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#121803 7-Apr-2008 15:24

Oh, I'm using XP MCE btw.

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#121804 7-Apr-2008 15:25

You just need to enable HW acceleration in PowerDVD - there are no settings to change in DVBViewer other than (probably) sticking with VMR9 under XP. I suspect HW acceleration won't work under XP using EVR.