Hi people,

I've just bought a htpc to hook up to my sony 40" and at first i was really dissapointed at the mkv 720p and 1080p playback, i almost bought those tvix stand alone players , but luckily there's the internet (thanks to bit-tech.net)

here is my set up

Proc : AMD X2 5000+
Mobo : Gigabyte GA-MA78GM
RAM : Apogee 2 GB running at DDR 800, i put 512 MB for the display
OS : Windows XP SP3

First UNINSTALL ALL your codec and download CCCP

Please overwrite the original mpc-hc that came with the codec with this one http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/781/2/ (CREDIT & THANKS TO FARIZ)

the old version is very picky when enabling dxva support

Install the codec , just click next untill finish, you dont need to do any changes here.



Untick the H.264/AVC





Open the Windows Media Player Classic Home Entertainment , It should be at Start - Program - Combined Community Codec Pack - Players - Media Player Classic , Then click options



Under Output do what i do



Under Playback TICK the "Auto-Load Subtitles"



RESTART THE MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC

Load any mkv file that you want and right click , under filters you should see MPC Video Decoder (low merit)



then click it, you should see this window poping up, you will see the DXDA mode tick and it's showing that Hardware Accleration is working



Then the magic begins, watch your cpu load , here's mine




THIS GUIDE IS FOR WINDOWS XP ONLY. VISTA USERS YOU HAVE TO EXPERIMENT WITH EVC, I DONT HAVE VISTA DONT ASK ME..

HARDWARE ACCELERATION ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE THOSE ATI HD CARDS , ABOUT NVIDIA I'M NOT SURE WHICH CARD HAS IT.

i tested on my 7900 gs and it does not work

for reference i have catalyst 8.9 installed and .net 3.5 installed

credit goes to the internet.

PLEASE POST IF THERE'S ANY DIFFERENCE IN YOUR CPU USAGE AND PLAYBACK , THANK YOU , WANTED TO SEE IF IT WORKS FOR EVERYONE WITH HD ENABLE GRAPHIC CARD

This post has been edited by demeter: Jun 15 2009, 10:03 PM

nice guide, hope you can tweak it,

print screen the active windows, instead full screen

iron-man 17GB version ?

This post has been edited by K for Ketamine: Sep 21 2008, 06:21 PM

It 7.9GB version if not mistaken.. Coz i Owned 1 too

well..all u need act is media player classic home Cinema...then for vista must change to EVR

no need to uninstall..i'm using klite codec pack..yet i;m using dxva to decode my h264...using media player classic HOME Cinema

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html


here a simple guide on how to enable it under vista

1st..Get Media PLayer Classic Home Cinema,

2nd..Go To View ,then Choose Option,then go to playback...Choose EVR at direct show video

3rd..Go to playback Check/Tick Auto Load Subtitle

then..u can have it!

see the attachment for screenies


Edited for a simple guide for vista

This post has been edited by amirsubhi: Sep 21 2008, 07:09 PM

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nice guide there @40" lcd there

any test on 1080i?

OMG, it wont worked for me at X300.. Playing more worst then before.. = ="

interlaced or progressive, ahh ?

yeah just use those MPC-HC, i made this guide because i saw lots of people complain about their htpc set up.. just wanted to help hehe..

for vista please follow AMIRSUBHI'S guide

for Xp just follow mine

This post has been edited by demeter: Sep 21 2008, 06:52 PM

7900GS does not have H264 AVC DXVA

As for mine i just use VLC player it plays all my HD movies as smooth

For XP it is simple.

Download and register ATIDVCR.DLL
Install DOTNET 3.xx
Then register evr.dll just incase
Then look in MPC under the renderers and you'll see EVR.

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Added on September 21, 2008, 10:27 pmOr grab CoreAVC, install. Go to the ffdshow video codec settings. Disable codec source for h.264 it will now render in all ur h.264 with CoreAVC.

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Added on September 21, 2008, 10:28 pmBTW click my blog just to see how powerful is CoreAVC.

This post has been edited by RangerRed: Sep 21 2008, 10:28 PM

Most of the 7-series doesn't support it.. Minimum NVIDIA chipset to support that feature is the 8600GT...

Nice guide... thanks 4 sharing

klite codec + MPC HC work as well with DXVA

hmm.........cant get it to work with vista 64 ?
nvm lol hav to get tthe 64bit version

This post has been edited by xpresside: Sep 24 2008, 03:26 AM

well power dvd will mess up the settings abit though .

Yes I'd go as far as saying CoreAVC is the best when decoding H264.

i got 7900gs also
that mean the setting provide by amirsubhi is useless for me?

good guide man thanks

Just wanna share my setting

Sammy A550 40" Full HD
Proc : AMD X2 4800+
Mobo : ASUS 690G Board with HDMI
RAM : Kingston 2 GB running at DDR 800, i put 256 MB for the display
OS : Windows XP SP3

At 1920x1080p res, can't play 720p source well.... still feel lagging all the way, if i play 1080p source......... biong~

At 1280x720p res, can play 720 source, output ok, play 1080p source not very ok haha

tha's my small exp