How can i get H.264 hardware acceleration in windows media player?

dvdbunny

dvdbunny

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Hi Guys,

I have been using Cyberlink Power DVD 7 deluxe edition, which has h.264 support, my movies play very smoothly with the occasional choppy frame rate for which seems like a second.

I would prefer to use windows media player but i can only seem to be able to run h.264 in software and getting really choppy ultra low frame rates, i would like to run it in hardware acceleration, i read some forums which were telling people how to do on both ATI and Nvidia cards. You had to use reg edit, and so i did it but ended up playing the h.264 movie in windows but had no sound or picture just a white/grey screen. So after a windows reboot it is back to normal software mode playing. I believe the reg edit thingy the forums was talking about was a little out dated and was wondering if any of you know how to do it.

I think i have a 256MB Nvidia 6800 or 6600 Go on my notebook, and 1GB RAM

Please help me get hardware acceleration working for h.264 movies?

I also think i have the latest version of windows media player, WMP 11, as the appearance from the pictures on the players official site looks exactly like mine.

any help much appreciated


Many many thanks
 
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Unless you're absolutely set on hardware acceleration, I'd suggest checking out CoreAVC, which is a very fast unaccelerated decoder.
 
Surely the hardware decoder needs to be configured via the graphics driver first if it's available. Then Media Player should use it.
Preferred decoder -
Hardware Decoders decode audio, subpictures, and MPEG-2 format for DVD playback. Hardware decoders may be built into your computer. They perform well with CPUs of less than 500 MHz because they require less CPU usage. If you select this option, your computer's hardware decoder is used. If the designated hardware decoder is not available, the software decoder is used.
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Maybe this might help -
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/12/18/ati-avivo-and-nvidia-purevideo-dissected-uk/
 
hi there
go and grab media player classic , play the file , while its playing right click on the picture and look at the filters its using.
click on the powerdvd filter and turn on hardware acceleration in there.
once thats done it will be turned on for any other program that uses the filter ;)

I have tried a few different filters , progs etc , powerdvd 7 seems to be the best for playing .ts hdtv files ,with less cpu usage ,55% max for me on my opteron single core at 2.9. ;)
 
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