DG NV tools

[nautilus7]

Thanks for the update. Had to kill the server manually as you describe a few times yesterday, so this is very good. I'll test when my current encoding is complete.

[aegisofrime]

neuron2 sir, any advice for those of us that are stuck with the program not working on mobile GPUs?

[Guest]

Maybe if you can tell me the specific chipset you have. Is it supposedly supported according to the table of supported GPUs that I link at my page?

[Guest]

Originally Posted by deets

any chance of having a drop down for resizing, with some presets or some way to enter the info in the prog without having to edit the avs file?

I don't want to implement the resizing in DGxxxIndexNV.

[nautilus7]

Speaking of resizing... is there any option to choose what resize algorithm (bilinear, etc) to use? Currently i use Spline36resize() in avisynth and it gives slightly better output (quality wise) than the gpu's.

[Guest]

No choice.

[nautilus7]

OK, i think i can live with that... The difference between these 2 algorithms (spline36 and gpu's bilinear - from 1080p to 720p) is only visible when comparing still frames zoomed @ 200%.

[Guest]

I agree. Especially for downsizing, I never saw much advantage to use the fancier algorithms.

[aegisofrime]

Originally Posted by neuron2

Maybe if you can tell me the specific chipset you have. Is it supposedly supported according to the table of supported GPUs that I link at my page?

I have a G105M. While it's not on the table, it's supposed to be a newer 9300M and I'm also pretty sure it supports VP3. I have the same error as Inspector Gadget: GPU decoder: Failed to create video decoder [100], and I'm running the latest drivers that nVidia has: 186.81.

[GZZ]

Nvidia 190.62 is the latest driver, did you try this one ?

[aegisofrime]

Originally Posted by GZZ

Nvidia 190.62 is the latest driver, did you try this one ?

That's for desktop cards, the latest for mobile cards is still 186.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by aegisofrime

That's for desktop cards, the latest for mobile cards is still 186.

Do the earlier betas work OK (such as beta 4 and before)? If so, I will make available builds that use D3D that should work on the mobile cards as an interim solution.

[aegisofrime]

Originally Posted by neuron2

Do the earlier betas work OK (such as beta 4 and before)? If so, I will make available builds that use D3D that should work on the mobile cards as an interim solution.

Thanks for your reply. The earlier betas did work ok, I think they starting breaking with Beta 7...

[rica]

Originally Posted by neuron2

I agree. Especially for downsizing, I never saw much advantage to use the fancier algorithms.

IMO, in conversion of SD to HD, nVidia GPU resizing is %10 better. I haven't compared 1080 to 720 conversion yet but for the time being some results for SD to HD:


Spline36Resize 576 to 1080:





DG nVidia resize 576 to 1080:





Here are the original ScreenShots:

Spline:



nVidia:




AVS files:

1)

DirectShowSource("C:\Users\rica\Desktop\How to deal\VTS_08_1.grf", fps=25.000, audio=false)

Spline36Resize(1920,1080) 

ConvertToYV12()

The source graph chain:

MPC MPEG Source > MPC MPEG2 Video Decoder


2)

LoadPlugin("C:\users\rica\desktop\Tools\DGNVTools\DGDecodeNV.dll")

DGSource("C:\users\rica\desktop\how to deal\DG\VTS_08_1.dgm", resize_w=1920, resize_h=1080)

MeGui preset profile x 264 DXVA HD-HQ has been used for reencoding of both files at 6000/two pass

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[rica]

The first time i've met such kind of issue; MeGui gives this popup:



Uninstalling-reinstalling MeGui and DGNVTools didn't fix the issue????


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[talen9]

Well, close CUVidServer and then retry opening the script in MeGUI, it will start it for you .. and yes, it's a relatively new "feature", I don't like it very much myself

[rica]

Originally Posted by talen9

Well, close CUVidServer and then retry opening the script in MeGUI, it will start it for you .. and yes, it's a relatively new "feature", I don't like it very much myself

No, i've already given it a go; it doesn't work.

[Guest]

Well, it's a MEGUI thing. Who's coding this stuff nowadays so I can talk to him about it? If we work together on it I'm sure we can get seamless operation.

@rica

When does it happen? Please describe the exact sequence of actions that produces it.

[rica]

Originally Posted by neuron2

@rica

When does it happen? Please describe the exact sequence of actions that produces it.

Please see my edit time on my previous post. I was about to make some trials on converting 1080 to 720 for comparison. But after that time (nothing has been changed) i even never could use the same script; i got the same popup message.
Starting MeGui unless CUVidServer running didn't fix the issue.
So i uninstall-reinstall MeGui, DGTools and nVidia FW drivers but nothing has changed; i don't know what happened???

PS: BTW MPC-HC opens and plays the same avc files while CUVID Server is opened. So this must be a MeGui issue but what is interesting is how it appeared suddenly?

[talen9]

@neuron2: i think Kurtnoise is the man.

@rica: I don't know why it doesn't work for you; the only thing that I suggest you check, is if you have correctly set the path for the DG*NV executables in MeGUI settings, I think that MeGUI uses them to determine the path for CuVIDServer too.