[WINDOWS] Internal Directshow Based Player [NO LONGER DEVELOPED]

Hi Tiben,

Just whacked on the test build. Had to reinstall the latest version of FFDShow instead of Shark's to get it to pickup FFDshow, but its now working; or at least reporting Directshow.

That said, performance seems really poor [even on a normal dvd res music video mkv with flac audio), both normal DVDPlayer and DSPlayer were much better.

There might be something I need to setup in FFDShow or a conflict, but as it stands, I'm not dropping frames but its as though, despite reported framerate, video is being decoded at say half speed, or in judders, rather than fluidly, and even then I'm getting drops down to about 20fps.
I went into FFDShow's DXVA config utility and made sure DXVA 264/VC1 accelleration was chosen, so it shouldnt be that. The input file SHOULD decode smoothly in software, given its only 704x480, so I'm not sure if I can put it down to DXVA not being utilised, and CPU utilsation is supposedly only about 20-30% same as usual.


Any ideas where I've gone wrong and I'll be happy to test it out!
Not even sure a debug log would help here, as it is...technically...working.

I've just been catching up on the thread. Sad and disappointed to hear DSPlayer is longer in development. I just started using XBMC about 3 weeks ago. I started with Dhrama, but it didn't support HD bit streaming. Found the DSPlayer variant, installed it and have been using it ever since. Real nice work blinkseb and tiben.

Tiben I tried the test build - from the executable file - and it didn't work very well. No HD audio bitstreaming. It only used the FFDShow DXVA video decoder. Real slow and choppy. I really like the idea of being able specify which codecs to use. I've always had good luck with MPC-HC standalone filters for video and FFDShow for audio.

Keep up the good work.

Darth B Wrote:I've just been catching up on the thread. Sad and disappointed to hear DSPlayer is longer in development. I just started using XBMC about 3 weeks ago. I started with Dhrama, but it didn't support HD bit streaming. Found the DSPlayer variant, installed it and have been using it ever since. Real nice work blinkseb and tiben.

Tiben I tried the test build - from the executable file - and it didn't work very well. No HD audio bitstreaming. It only used the FFDShow DXVA video decoder. Real slow and choppy. I really like the idea of being able specify which codecs to use. I've always had good luck with MPC-HC standalone filters for video and FFDShow for audio.

Keep up the good work.

The build is locked on to use only video. I almost got the audio renderer to be able to use hd audio streaming. The only problem where im confuse is the how i'm going to parse some required config to the renderer in a clean way. (this is really important to get the patch in xbmc trunk) Its really tricky to code in mutli platform development project that are that big. Hope i get another stroke of genius and complete it as soon as possible.

Hi Tiben, got your PM, sorry I only peeked at the thread the last few days rather than logging in!

Will get back to you ASAP with the info you wanted, will install a portable build of the DSCodec branch and see if I can get graphstudio working. Seems like Darth B had the same performance issues as me though.

Tiben, sent you a pastebin version of my debug log as requested.

I'm an absolute noob with graphstudio though (literally reading buttons and hitting them if it sounds like it might do something useful), so might need a bit of guidance on that to be able to provide you the report you wanted.

Been Using XBMC for a while now n only JUST came across this due to Audio problems.

tiben20 You are Awesome! Keep up the work. i can only HOPE the Team implements your work the codec they are using atm is just plain... fusterating!

soxism Wrote:Been Using XBMC for a while now n only JUST came across this due to Audio problems.

tiben20 You are Awesome! Keep up the work. i can only HOPE the Team implements your work the codec they are using atm is just plain... fusterating!

video might be integrated before audio. It might be easier to help with the Audio engine to be completed than implement my own way to get bitstream working on it. I'm currently working on adding vmr9 for xp users into dvdplayer but its quite a challenge. I hope ill be able to complete it.