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post #21 of 27
4/21/09 at 11:18pm
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I'd recommend using CoreAVC instead of FFDShow for your x/h.264 playback, but you're rocking out ATI and CoreAVC only has Cuda support at the moment. It's also only 32bit.

As far as Cuda support, the newer nvidia cards will offload more than the older ones. My 8800 GTS will not offload as much as a newer 9600 GT. I'm not sure if ATI cards are the same way.

Are you using 64bit or 32bit?
Thanks for the info. I'm using XP MCE 32bit
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post #22 of 27
4/21/09 at 11:27pm
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Thanks for the info. I'm using XP MCE 32bit
I'm wondering if CoreAVC would benefit you regardless considering your processor has hyperthreading.

edit: I guess since your CPU is maxing at 100% it wouldn't matter, now that I think about it.
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post #23 of 27
4/21/09 at 11:29pm
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I'm wondering if CoreAVC would benefit you regardless considering your processor has hyperthreading.
I'll give it a go tonight - thanks
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post #24 of 27
4/22/09 at 3:49am
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I'll give it a go tonight - thanks
I just found out that the new FFDShow does support multithreading but not on P4s with hyperthreading.

C2D E6600 @ 2.4ghz
4GB of DDR2 1066
8800 GTS 640mb
Renderer: VMR9
720p Death Note Special [Kuro-Hana]
FFDShow tryouts 2844: DFPS: 50.6 CPU%: ~70%
Divx 7: DFPS: 102.8 CPU%: ~95%
CoreAVC 1.9.5 w/ CUDA: DFPS: 119.3 CPU%: ~60%

Here is some food for thought. I found a program called timeCodec and ran benchmarks on the 3 different h.264 decoders I have on my system. The CPU% is based on my perception of average using Task Manager during the testing.
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post #25 of 27
4/22/09 at 10:32am
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I just found out that the new FFDShow does support multithreading but not on P4s with hyperthreading.

C2D E6600 @ 2.4ghz
4GB of DDR2 1066
8800 GTS 640mb
Renderer: VMR9
720p Death Note Special [Kuro-Hana]
FFDShow tryouts 2844: DFPS: 50.6 CPU%: ~70%
Divx 7: DFPS: 102.8 CPU%: ~95%
CoreAVC 1.9.5 w/ CUDA: DFPS: 119.3 CPU%: ~60%

Here is some food for thought. I found a program called timeCodec and ran benchmarks on the 3 different h.264 decoders I have on my system. The CPU% is based on my perception of average using Task Manager during the testing.
Thanks - thinking of installing mythtv on the HTPC
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post #26 of 27
4/22/09 at 10:35am
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Sounds nice, good luck. Can you fit an aftermarket cooler in the case? Those 2500s used to OC really well.
Actually that was a typo, it's a 3500+

The chip is a great overclocker and I'm running a PhenomII's stock cooler on it. Unfortunatly the motherboard is absolute trash for overclocking but when I had it in a MSI Neo nForce3 board it was running at 2.9Ghz
It's not slow...
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post #27 of 27
4/22/09 at 1:13pm
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Actually that was a typo, it's a 3500+

The chip is a great overclocker and I'm running a PhenomII's stock cooler on it. Unfortunatly the motherboard is absolute trash for overclocking but when I had it in a MSI Neo nForce3 board it was running at 2.9Ghz
ah, sounds good. I'm going to experiment with the PC at the weekend - see what I can do with it. Got to totally rebuild be spare laptop as well.....
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