ATI H.264 acceleration question?

wolfran · Aug 25, 2006, 01:40 PM

So what is the state of ATI H.264 acceleration now?
Do we still need to buy Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 Deluxe to be able to get H.264 contents hardware accelerated? Or is it included in the AVIVO package drivers and can be enabled with WMP10?
I noticed that Videolan and ffdshow also support H.264 contents. Do they also support hardware acceleration with ATI cards?

Necrosis · Aug 25, 2006, 02:40 PM

You don't need Power DVD, you can just get this:

http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/ati/.../enu/index.jsp

I don't know the answer to question 2. Plus I believe it only works with x1xxx series.

Gnerma · Aug 25, 2006, 03:17 PM

No neither ffdshow nor VLC have AVC hardware acceleration. CoreCodec, the makers of CoreAVC, have said that the next version of the decoder (v1.2) will finally add hardware acceleration. They haven't said anything about which cards will be supported though. Hopefully it'll work on all SM3.0 GPUs from both IHVs. This is good because I believe this will be the first general hardware accelerated AVC decoder that you can use for most anything rather than specific players, dvds only etc.

wolfran · Aug 25, 2006, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Necrosis

You don't need Power DVD, you can just get this:

http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/ati/.../enu/index.jsp

I don't know the answer to question 2. Plus I believe it only works with x1xxx series.

Thanks.
Yes, I'm getting x1900xt. Actually it's already here but I need to wait for my new mobo and new CPU

Hmm....ATI should've given this kind of codecs for free......I think Nvidia PureVideo is free now.

Gnerma · Aug 25, 2006, 06:18 PM

Purevideo is not free.

wolfran · Aug 26, 2006, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Gnerma

Purevideo is not free.

Hmm.....I thought I read somewhere that it used to be not free but it's free now or included with newer versions of forcewares. Maybe I'm wrong.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gnerma

............This is good because I believe this will be the first general hardware accelerated AVC decoder that you can use for most anything rather than specific players, dvds only etc.

So does this mean we cannot get hardware acceleration on media files (not DVD), which are encoded with h.264?

Gnerma · Aug 26, 2006, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wolfran

Hmm.....I thought I read somewhere that it used to be not free but it's free now or included with newer versions of forcewares. Maybe I'm wrong.

I'm 98% sure that Purevideo is never free except for maybe when Nvidia board partners may choose to include it at their own cost. If it was totally free I don't see why that page would be up at all. The problem with making a DVD decoder free is that the company has to pay for liscensing costs regardless. I don't disagree with the sentiment that you should get something like this with your video card, or at least high end and "all in wonder" type cards.

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Originally Posted by wolfran

So does this mean we cannot get hardware acceleration on media files (not DVD), which are encoded with h.264?

Not that I'm aware of. But it may be possible with one of the current GPU accelerated AVC implementations. This isn't something I've really looked into, I own a coreavc pro liscense so I've been waiting for 1.2

Aug 25, 2006, 01:40 PM	#1
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Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	You don't need Power DVD, you can just get this: http://www.cyberlink.com/cinema/ati/.../enu/index.jsp I don't know the answer to question 2. Plus I believe it only works with x1xxx series.