DXVA for h264 on Windows XP

bradvido88 · 2010-11-12 04:30

OK, I've got the MPC external player working well enough on my 2 XP XBMC's.

However, my 3rd XBMC is a desktop and I'd like to avoid using an external player. I'm running windows7 and Dharma beta4. However i'm not seeing good hardware acceleration for h264 videos. 1080P is choppy.

Here's info on my Nvidia GeForce 7100. Should this card work with XBMC to do DXVA?
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**jhsrennie** · 2010-11-12 10:24

bradvido88 Wrote:Here's info on my Nvidia GeForce 7100. Should this card work with XBMC to do DXVA?

No.

JR

bradvido88 · 2010-11-12 16:38

I see, i didn't realize that Nvidia chipset was so weak.

I had a radeon hd 5450 lying around. so i threw that in and i've now got DXVA working on my Win7 box!

Thanks to all for the info.

**jhsrennie** · 2010-11-12 19:14

bradvido88 Wrote:I see, i didn't realize that Nvidia chipset was so weak.

In fairness, the 7100 is three generations old, and that's a long time in the IT world. The equivalent to your Radeon would be something like a GT220 and that does hardware acceleration just fine.

JR

ALcALoIDe · 2010-11-14 04:37

So, I have a 7950gtx go on my laptop. Does it mean I can't get any acceleration from xbmc even using win7 Confused

paco · 2010-11-14 04:54

ALcALoIDe Wrote:So, I have a 7950gtx go on my laptop. Does it mean I can't get any acceleration from xbmc even using win7

Only the the 8xxx and higher Nvidia cards can do full H.264 decoding (no VC1). The earlier cards only had partial acceleration which is not supported.

jhsrennie Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 7,237 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 117 Location: Chester, UK	2010-11-12 10:24 Post: #12 bradvido88 Wrote:Here's info on my Nvidia GeForce 7100. Should this card work with XBMC to do DXVA? No. JR
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bradvido88 Member+ Posts: 736 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 7 Location: MN	2010-11-12 16:38 Post: #13 I see, i didn't realize that Nvidia chipset was so weak. I had a radeon hd 5450 lying around. so i threw that in and i've now got DXVA working on my Win7 box! Thanks to all for the info. XBMC.MyLibrary (add anything to the library) ForTheLibrary (ForTheRecord & XBMC Library Integration) SageTV & XBMC PVR Integration Delete unused thumbs
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jhsrennie Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 7,237 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 117 Location: Chester, UK	2010-11-12 19:14 Post: #14 bradvido88 Wrote:I see, i didn't realize that Nvidia chipset was so weak. In fairness, the 7100 is three generations old, and that's a long time in the IT world. The equivalent to your Radeon would be something like a GT220 and that does hardware acceleration just fine. JR
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ALcALoIDe Junior Member Posts: 16 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-11-14 04:37 Post: #15 So, I have a 7950gtx go on my laptop. Does it mean I can't get any acceleration from xbmc even using win7
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paco Senior Member Posts: 234 Joined: Mar 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Toronto	2010-11-14 04:54 Post: #16 ALcALoIDe Wrote:So, I have a 7950gtx go on my laptop. Does it mean I can't get any acceleration from xbmc even using win7 Only the the 8xxx and higher Nvidia cards can do full H.264 decoding (no VC1). The earlier cards only had partial acceleration which is not supported.
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