VLC 1.1 including hardware acceleration

Have they sorted out the problem with choppy sound when using the spdif option yet? It's the reason I don't use it and prefer mpc-hc instead.
 
Why does it not support ATI? Thats quite an exclusion seeing as ATI and Nvidia share the whole market almost equally. What were they thinking?
 
Odd, it's working on my 5770. Although I suspect that's because the first thing I always install is the cccp which has FFDShow in it it I haven't touched any codec setting in VLC so idk. If I actually check GPU acceleration in VLC then my cpu returns to normal (i.e. doesn't wok, as expected).

Cpu use is still higher than MPC-HC :p
 
I've found that since 1.1 I can't get VLC to play DVDs. :confused: WMP plays them fine but VLC refuses to. I tell it to play something and it just flickers before going back to its original state when I opened it. :(
 
Rainmaker said:
MPC-HC likely is better overall, for now. But a little choice never hurts - especially as MPC-HC isn't a Linux capable client. I've used MPC-HC for years now, updating almost daily via the link you provided.

However that doesn't detract from VLC's achievement, especially given it'll work on the Linux platform. They basically just took away the final reason I had for running a Windows box. :D
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Linux has had brilliant Nvidia HD video accelleration for quite some time via vdpau. Its nice to see VLC catching up but this is nothing new.
 
Cat v10.7 will add VLC hardware support, although what else they'll break in the process is another matter ;)
 
does VLC also decode DTS & dolby digital?

Ive been thinking about switching to this to watch movies on my 5.1 headphones and Goldring DR50 headphones. I have a xonar D1 soundcard and was going to either use the D1 to emulate surround sound via dolby headphone or just let it 5.1 output via analoge to my other headphones.

answers, as ever, are appreciated^^
 
Mana said:
are there any players that support ati video hardware acceleration?
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I use MPC-HC and Splash player.
Now im also using Splash PRO trial - it has full (h264, vc-1, mpeg-2) dxva support for ati and nvidia.

I tried VLC dxva and its quite bad. Does not work on Intel. On nvidia many problems... Well, ive never liked vlc :) mpc-hc and splash are far better for hd!
 
VLC certainly has issues on my media PC (ASRock ION 330 Pro) where pixellation and heavy stuttering occurs on 720p and up and MPC-HC stutters when playing 1080p using DXVA slightly even though the CPU is a dual core Atom @ 1.66GHz and MPC detects DXVA HW Accel in the ION chipset!

STRANGELY though WMP plays 1080p videos absolutely fine once I install Haali splitter so that DTS/AC3 streams and h264 video could be split and played correctly.

Also FlashHD works flawlessly too using Flash 10.1 so ION is working nicely here :)

MPC-HC on everything else though.
 
Khaaan! said:
VLC certainly has issues on my media PC (ASRock ION 330 Pro) where pixellation and heavy stuttering occurs on 720p and up and MPC-HC stutters when playing 1080p using DXVA slightly even though the CPU is a dual core Atom @ 1.66GHz and MPC detects DXVA HW Accel in the ION chipset!

STRANGELY though WMP plays 1080p videos absolutely fine once I install Haali splitter so that DTS/AC3 streams and h264 video could be split and played correctly.

Also FlashHD works flawlessly too using Flash 10.1 so ION is working nicely here :)

MPC-HC on everything else though.
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You may also check Splash Lite or PRO. A friend of mine with ION netbook is a big fan of splash. He watches mainly 1080p movies and mpc-hc also stutters on his netbook.
 
Preferring WMP as we have 2 Android phones in the house which remotely control it :p
 
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