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Title: Ideal CoreAVC settings
Post by: BryanC on June 10, 2010, 01:43:31 pm

I am trying to eek out some 720P playback on my laptop so I installed CoreAVC 2.0 and have it set up as my decoder for mkv files in MC15. What other settings should I tweak to get a smoother playback? I am using Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow for the audio stream. Is the JRiver media splitter better and should I be using something other than ffdshow for the audio stream? What is the best renderer to use in this instance? EVR, Haali?

Also, is it possible to use CoreAVC for DVD playback, or should I stick with ffdshow?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Ideal CoreAVC settings
Post by: Daydream on June 10, 2010, 07:53:47 pm

Decoding audio should be generically much, much simpler than decoding video, so ffdshow or something else for audio doesn't really matter (unless there are some other problems, not performance-related).

JRiver media splitter - wait, what??

By the fact that you're trying to eek out 720p playback out of your laptop I take is not a recent unit. EVR was invented for Vista and later and so it requires some GPU power which may not be available (meaning a GPU with some power not the integrated units from 5 years back). So, NOT that (even if you can get EVR in XP). The fastest (and most limited) video renderer is Overlay.

CoreAVC decodes MPEG-4/H264/AVC ONLY. DVDs are MPEG-2. So no.

Title: Re: Ideal CoreAVC settings
Post by: Yaobing on June 11, 2010, 11:47:59 am

There is no JRiver media splitter, as Daydream indicated.  Haali Media Splitter and CoreAVC is the right combination for mkv files that contain MPEG-4/H264/AVC video.  I will just add one thing:

Check the version of Haali Media Splitter.  I know at least one version that does not work well.  Install the latest  if yours is older than 1.10.120.15 (current version is 1.10.175.0).