Is there any way to utilize ATI Fullstream support without the Divx 2.1 player?

[arnels]

The latest DivX 5.05 codec includes hardware playback support (Fullstream) for DivX and a player 2.1 to utilize it with ATI cards. Will I need to use that player to make it work, or can mediaplayer or Zoomplayer be used too? Or even better, could i utilize Fullstream with only installing FFDSHOW, which has a DivX decoder?

[EagleDM]

None of that will work.

You see. For a player to use Fullstream support you have to manually program the Pixel Shader Engine on the ATI hardware to use Pixel Shader Prossesing (ATI call it: Video Shader) but is nothing more than a pixel shader program that supports video shading.

This kind of programming is pretty much 'detailed' and has to be done inside the program, I DOUBT any programmer will do it unless ATI gives them the source code and cultivate the progammers with an easy-to-use method... for the time being the only player that uses videoshaders is didxplayer and only use it just for hardware acceleration (no post processing)

It is a SHAME that ATI has not made ways for programmers to implement this, just imagine applying a Sharpening filter on the video and a de-noise filter... ATI R300 hardware CAN DO IT in realtime without any problems...

Well, if you want you can start complaining to Bsplayer, Crystal, Zoomplayer and even microsoft own media player to implement this things... should be cool.

[Morbo]

Its nice thing to have if you have really nasty encodes,but it seems to have a really good effect on real low bit rates(real player rates),but it doesnt intrude on higher bit rates..@ least on my encodes anyway....

Yes it sux for DIVX to have exclusive player,but it is their codec,and they will want the player to be ONLY their's...

I dont think its that big a deal(as i dont believe any hype anymore),but you do need a 9500 and up to use it,and DIVX player has never played files with AC3...so....dont worry about it,there is no magic "crap in,dvd out" ......

[dTb]

I agree with most of what you've said Morbo but the current release of the divx player should play movies with ac3 and other codecs. I only say should because I haven't tried it myself.

[tomos]

sorry for bumping this thread up :)

i want a card that does some hardware accelerating and i read that atis x850 has FullStream. would that work with divx 6 now for playback?

and what about encoding? could this give a boost to encoding to divx?