[WINDOWS] GPU assisted video decoding in XBMC for Windows via a custom DXVA renderer?

Beat me to it, LaTropa!

@natethomas...thanks, interesting.

ashlar Wrote:Never? Or at least until ATI, Nvidia or Intel release hardware acceleration accessible under OpenGL.

why not use purevideo and that ati alternative?

because of license need to be bought from those companies? I mean PowerDVD, TotalTheater, WinDVD has support for that.

LaTropa64 Wrote:DXVA works beautifully under Media Player Classic HomeCinema. It's so awesome to see less than 5% CPU usage on 1080p mkv's. It also offers some awesome gpu shaders that enhance the picture quality.

Of course, the user interface of MPC-HC leaves much to be desired as it's nothing more than a player.

Considering the Xbox version is DirectX, how out of the realm of possibility is seeing a DirectX version of XBMC for Windows?

still lacking compared to Purevideo

XBMC biggest flaw is that developers are trying to making it uniform on to many different platforms, then then all platforms suffer.

mediaportal at least has DXVA support

Why not just use XBMC for Linux where VDPAU is being implemented (and quite far along).

You'll then get hardware gpu decoding.

some people don't like linux

but that brings up another question why linux is getting special exception?

Because vdpau is for unix only. If you find it for windows, please let us know!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU

It's real simple: Because a developer coded it up for linux.

If a developer comes along that wants to do the same for DXVA or whatever, they're more than welcome to do so.

jmarshall's answer is better than mine

I swear I just wrote that.

Edit: I did! I did just write that! On the first page of this very thread, in fact! Nekrosoft, I recommend reading what I write before forcing to a developer to repeat it in shorter sentences.