MKV h.264 Hardware Acceleration DXVA - Page 7

sirhobbit · **4th February 2009, 10:36 PM**

Thanks very much for this, it works a treat!

I have just done a fresh install of Vista, what's the best way to get mkv's working with MPC? I don't want to download a pack with a whole heap of stuff that I don't want.

bwhinnen · **5th February 2009, 07:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by sirhobbit

Thanks very much for this, it works a treat!

I have just done a fresh install of Vista, what's the best way to get mkv's working with MPC? I don't want to download a pack with a whole heap of stuff that I don't want.

Peronally I just have the Haali splitter installed and then the ffdshow tryouts. That covers everything I have as far as video and audio codecs along with the MPC Direct Show...

Cheers
Brett

sirhobbit · **5th February 2009, 07:48 PM**

Great, I already have ffdshow to do sound and whatever MPC can't handle. I'll grab the Haali splitter a go.

we87 · **7th February 2009, 11:09 PM**

ASUS AH3450, ECS P4M800M-Pro, 2gb DDR2, WinXP MCE 2005

I have tried this with the MPC Codec, and my CPU usage does significantly go down, but I still get artifacting and stutter in my movie files. I have made sure that FFDshow and anything else I have installed is disabled. Anything else I can try/do?

Thanks alot in advance.

casanova · **10th February 2009, 11:17 PM**

Can I install (register) standalone x64 filter MPCVideoDec.ax on Vista 64 bits? I tried to register.
C:windows\syswow64\MPCVideoDec.ax
I'm using run as administrator in cmd window, it said succeed after above command run. But I could not find it in the DirectShow filter list, not in Graphstudio, not in any program filter list. So an anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

ultramic · **21st February 2009, 01:20 AM**

I'm pretty sure I followed all the instructions and I get anywhere between 10-20% CPU usage when playing a 8gb 720p MKV file (Lord of the Rings). I have an ASUSM3N78-EM (8300 onboard) + AMD 5200. Should be doing something else to lower the usage or does it depend on the file and how t was encoded ?

There was also mention of using graphstudio, you do I use this program ?

SANAFABICH · **1st March 2009, 02:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by bwhinnen

This is what I did for the above to work...

Download the MPC Video Decoder from the following location (32bit only).

Hi, I tried all of your instructions and although my CPU usage didn't go lower than 50%, it still lower than it used to be and now my mkv files play flawlessly, so thank you! But, and here's my question: is there any solution for the subtitles issue? Since I uninstalled the ffdshow codec pack I don't get any subtitles (I have the srt file in the same folder). Is there any solution to this yet? thanks again.

abufijli · **3rd March 2009, 01:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by bwhinnen

This is what I did for the above to work...

Download the MPC Video Decoder from the following location (32bit only).

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mpc...PCVideoDec.zip

Unzip the file to c:\windows\system32

Open a command prompt as Administrator and run the following commands:

cd \windows\system32
regsvr32.exe MPCVideoDec.ax

You should get a windows dialog with an OK button, click OK.

You have now downloaded and registered the new DirectShow decoder.

Next download RadLight Filter Manager

http://www.videohelp.com/download/rlfm_bin1_5.zip

Run this as Administrator as well:

When the window opens scroll down to DirectShow Filters and expand it (click on the +)

Then locate your Video Codec that does H264 / AVC, mine was ffdshow Video Decoder, click on it and then click the Property Page button, this will open up the properties of the codec, make sure that H263 / AVC is disabled.

Now if you have multiple codecs that do H264 / AVC you'll need to do this for all of them.

Next find the MPC - Video decoder and click on the Property Page button again, now click on the codecs tab and make sure that H264 / AVC is ticked, you can happily untick all the others.

Close down and you should be all done.

This is what I did on both my laptop (Nvidia 8600M GT) and HTPC (ATI HD 2400 Pro) and it worked on both of them. I also use the ffdshow_tryouts codec pack in preference to any others as it does all I need from a video and audio perspective.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I have tried all the above steps, and installed ffdshow try outs on a fresh install of vista, but when I go into VMC I can not see the .mkv files. Any idea?

Thanks

bwhinnen · **9th March 2009, 12:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by abufijli

Hi,

I have tried all the above steps, and installed ffdshow try outs on a fresh install of vista, but when I go into VMC I can not see the .mkv files. Any idea?

Thanks

You've got a mkv splitter installed? Such as haali? These are needed so windows can actually open the container to see what is inside.

logifuse · **9th March 2009, 03:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by SANAFABICH

Hi, I tried all of your instructions and although my CPU usage didn't go lower than 50%, it still lower than it used to be and now my mkv files play flawlessly, so thank you! But, and here's my question: is there any solution for the subtitles issue? Since I uninstalled the ffdshow codec pack I don't get any subtitles (I have the srt file in the same folder). Is there any solution to this yet? thanks again.

If you're not decoding with FFDShow, you'll need DirectVobSub for subtitles.

Quote:

Originally Posted by abufijli

Hi,

I have tried all the above steps, and installed ffdshow try outs on a fresh install of vista, but when I go into VMC I can not see the .mkv files. Any idea?

Thanks

Have you opened the files in Windows & made WMP the default viewing program? And when WMP opens them, it will say it's an unrecognised format, but choose to play them anyway. Once you've done that, MKV should become a recognised video format & should display in WMC. Alternatively you can set the file type for MKV manually to "video clip" in the folder options.

Justin

SANAFABICH · **11th March 2009, 04:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by logifuse

If you're not decoding with FFDShow, you'll need DirectVobSub for

Thanks! I'll try that and let you know how it went.

Willosy · **11th March 2009, 11:25 AM**

Just wondering if you guys can help seeing as how it's sort of related?

I was trying to get my HTPC to encode DivX files for me when it's just sitting there idle. So I installed DivX7 Pro and tried to encode a file. It popped up a box saying I didn't have an AC3 filter installed. So I remembered that I installed AC3 Filter on another PC I was using. So I installed AC3 Filter which killed my output for some files and made others not even play using VMC.

Part of that was that .mkv files ended up very stuttery/jumpy and the sound out of synch. So I uninstalled AC3 Filter, FFDShow and Haali Media Splitter, then re-installed FFDShow and Media splitter. My .mkv movies are still stuttery, what have I done?? I love my VMC, it's very touchy though.

I'd also like to know how I can use DivX 7 to encode movies with FFDShow and still use FFDShow to pass all my 5.1 channel sound out the S/PDIF optical to the AMP. Would it be better to start a new thread on this topic?? Which topic would I be best to start the thread in??

Thanks

Willo