GPU video acceleration made possible by Apple?

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nerpissad Offline
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2010-04-28 13:41 Post: #41
fredaroony Wrote:You must be doing something wrong because the increase in performance is dramatic and I also have a 9400 mini.

I second that! as expected, not all media files benefit from this but the majority of mine do.
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2010-04-28 14:18 Post: #42
fredaroony Wrote:You must be doing something wrong because the increase in performance is dramatic and I also have a 9400 mini.

I'll agree--I tested it last night and my processor load was down to around 35-40% on 1080p content. As mentioned, vc1 streams are not helped by the gpu so maybe you were playing one of those. The only one that wasn't helped in my limited testing was this avatar file:

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2010-04-28 14:19 Post: #43
I reinstalled plex from scratch, same problem. then i toggled the refresh rate from 60 to 50 and back to 60 hz. Voilla, Plex shaves up more than 50% of the CPU usage. 2 days after Apple released the API. How fucking amazing isnt this!!!!!

Movies i rip from bluray myself with crazy high bitrate even plays flawless now. Talk about a badass improvement. What plex does now is amazing. Can hardly wait for this in XBMC!
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2010-04-28 18:26 Post: #44
jayhawk785 Wrote:I'll agree--I tested it last night and my processor load was down to around 35-40% on 1080p content. As mentioned, vc1 streams are not helped by the gpu so maybe you were playing one of those. The only one that wasn't helped in my limited testing was this avatar file:

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Icky, what did this output come from, there's zero info about the video encoding besides Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC and size. Mediainfo tells all, goggle it, get it, use it and nothing else.

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2010-04-28 18:55 Post: #45
davilla Wrote:Icky, what did this output come from, there's zero info about the video encoding besides Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC and size. Mediainfo tells all, goggle it, get it, use it and nothing else.

haha, i knew that was coming. I have to do it from command line, and thats all i could get to install remotely. I've updated on my lunch Wink

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2010-04-29 02:43 Post: #46
Anyone have any idea if apple plans on releasing the api for other gpu`s aswell? Granted, alot of macs will be covered with the api currently out, but youd think they would release api`s for all cards they use that support x264 acceleration. After all, isnt this something they released primarily so macs would perform better on hulu and the likes?
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2010-04-29 05:43 Post: #47
Up running and seems stable in svn trunk. I'm seeing 25-35 CPU percent (100 - idle percent via top) under a 2.4GHz MacBook. Start building Smile

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2010-04-29 06:05 Post: #48
Great news davilla, which release should I download to try? 29565?
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2010-04-29 06:11 Post: #49
smush420 Wrote:Great news davilla, which release should I download to try? 29565?

r29647

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2010-04-29 06:29 Post: #50
Do you have to enable something?

Edit--Downloaded wrong svn, gonna try again in the morning
(This post was last modified: 2010-04-29 06:49 by smush420.)
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