OhPinchy
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I have read the full 1080p setup article on guru3d and though it was a highly interesting read, it seems a bit outdated in that it doesn't referene the MS Media Foundation developments with Windows 7. I'm hoping this thread might collate current info that would help me get setup while also being a point of reference for other users in similar situations.
I have three machines I want to get setup to playback 1080p files (downloads, bluray rips, iPlayer HD etc.) and am trying to figure out what codecs I need - ideally all playback would be done through the Windows 7 Media Center interface. Will use Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 on all machines.
Acer Revo 3600, Atom 230, Nvidia ION, 4GB RAM.
Samsung N510, Atom 280, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GEFORCE 9400M ION.
A HTPC with Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2GHz and ABIT Fatal1ty F-I90HD mobo. This mobo was bought in 2007 but I think it is listed as outputting 1080p.
I will use the Samsung N510 as the testing ground and last night installed CoreAVC on it and then went to play Top Gear in HD over BBC iPlayer - not sure if that's 720p or 1080p. I was suprised to see the CPU at close to 100%, suggesting hardware accleration was not in use. Investigating with Performance Monitor showed two processes hogging CPU: MsMpEng.exe (which seems to be related to a Microsoft Security Essentials issue) and wmpnetwk.exe (which this thread suggests is caused by a corrupt .avi file (which I'm not sure how to find) causing issues when Media Sharing is set to on.
I had thought that resolving those two issues would allow me to playback hardware accelerated HD with low CPU usage given that CoreAVC would do the trick. However, the guru3d article suggests that CoreAVC doesn't actually use hardware acceleration - is that outdated information now that CoreAVC 2 is out (which I have)?
With Windows 7, is there actually any need to install any extra codecs and/or change any settings to get Windows Media Center to use hardware acceleration for h.264,x.264,.mkv files?
This Hack7MC blog shows a reg edit is needed to make WMC display MKV files, so the focus here is on what is needed to make WMC play those files with hardware acceleration.
The image sharepening features the Guru3d article describes sound fantastic, and though I wouldn't expect to achieve these with onboard graphics, it would be interesting to see if there's any way to set this feature up for native playback in WMC (i.e. not having to use Media Player Classic Home Cinema externally).
I have three machines I want to get setup to playback 1080p files (downloads, bluray rips, iPlayer HD etc.) and am trying to figure out what codecs I need - ideally all playback would be done through the Windows 7 Media Center interface. Will use Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 on all machines.
Acer Revo 3600, Atom 230, Nvidia ION, 4GB RAM.
Samsung N510, Atom 280, 2GB RAM, Nvidia GEFORCE 9400M ION.
A HTPC with Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2GHz and ABIT Fatal1ty F-I90HD mobo. This mobo was bought in 2007 but I think it is listed as outputting 1080p.
I will use the Samsung N510 as the testing ground and last night installed CoreAVC on it and then went to play Top Gear in HD over BBC iPlayer - not sure if that's 720p or 1080p. I was suprised to see the CPU at close to 100%, suggesting hardware accleration was not in use. Investigating with Performance Monitor showed two processes hogging CPU: MsMpEng.exe (which seems to be related to a Microsoft Security Essentials issue) and wmpnetwk.exe (which this thread suggests is caused by a corrupt .avi file (which I'm not sure how to find) causing issues when Media Sharing is set to on.
I had thought that resolving those two issues would allow me to playback hardware accelerated HD with low CPU usage given that CoreAVC would do the trick. However, the guru3d article suggests that CoreAVC doesn't actually use hardware acceleration - is that outdated information now that CoreAVC 2 is out (which I have)?
With Windows 7, is there actually any need to install any extra codecs and/or change any settings to get Windows Media Center to use hardware acceleration for h.264,x.264,.mkv files?
This Hack7MC blog shows a reg edit is needed to make WMC display MKV files, so the focus here is on what is needed to make WMC play those files with hardware acceleration.
The image sharepening features the Guru3d article describes sound fantastic, and though I wouldn't expect to achieve these with onboard graphics, it would be interesting to see if there's any way to set this feature up for native playback in WMC (i.e. not having to use Media Player Classic Home Cinema externally).