Feeding The Cyberlink MPEG2 Decoder w/DXVA In to Avisynth?

ViRGE · 3rd March 2009, 05:21

Hey all;

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to feed the Cyberlink MPEG2 decoder in to Avisynth, and to have it use DXVA acceleration. I have some 30fps pure-interlaced MPEG2 material that I'm trying to encode in to H.264, and I noticed that the Cyberlink decoder has an excellent bob filter for it; it generates 60fps out of the material and does significantly better (in my opinion at least) than weaving/blending that usually happens when I try to encode this material with AutoMKV and the like. I don't know what exactly it's doing, but the results are comparable to motion-comp bob deinterlacers like MCBob, but it's significantly faster (real-time vs. 5fps).

So what I would like to do is feed the Cyberlink decoder in to Avisynth, to have it decode and deinterlace the material before passing it on to x264 for encoding. I've tried setting up a filter graph chain with GraphEdit and feeding that in to Avisynth, and while I can come up with something that works as a chain it's missing any hardware acceleration. As a result the Cyberlink decoder uses its own internal software deinterlacer which isn't nearly as good.

So basically my question is: is there any way to set up a filter graph such that the Cyberlink decoder is still DXVA/hardware accelerated works with avisynth? I realize it's probably a crazy idea, but I'm stubborn and want to make it work if possible.

The video card, for anyone curious, is a GeForce 8800GTX.

Blue_MiSfit · 3rd March 2009, 05:28

IIRC, you can't do this, because the GPU does all the work internally and then passes it out to the LCD.

You can take advantage of H.264 / VC1 decoding and deinterlacing via CUDA, but this requires neuron2's special tools. I don't think he has such a tool for MPEG-2 yet.

~MiSfit

kemuri-_9 · 3rd March 2009, 05:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit

You can take advantage of H.264 / VC1 decoding and deinterlacing via CUDA, but this requires neuron2's special tools. I don't think he has such a tool for MPEG-2 yet.

yes he does: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144867

ViRGE · 3rd March 2009, 06:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit

IIRC, you can't do this, because the GPU does all the work internally and then passes it out to the LCD.

You can take advantage of H.264 / VC1 decoding and deinterlacing via CUDA, but this requires neuron2's special tools. I don't think he has such a tool for MPEG-2 yet.

~MiSfit

The thought has occurred to me, but it was worth asking anyhow. All I really want to get my hands on is the deinterlacer (which I guess is the PureVideo hardware deinterlacer, rather than anything Cyberlink does).

Edit: And thanks for the link, kemuri-_9

Blue_MiSfit · 3rd March 2009, 21:10

Wow!

Well done neuron2

~MiSfit

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ViRGE Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7	Feeding The Cyberlink MPEG2 Decoder w/DXVA In to Avisynth? Hey all; I'm wondering if anyone knows how to feed the Cyberlink MPEG2 decoder in to Avisynth, and to have it use DXVA acceleration. I have some 30fps pure-interlaced MPEG2 material that I'm trying to encode in to H.264, and I noticed that the Cyberlink decoder has an excellent bob filter for it; it generates 60fps out of the material and does significantly better (in my opinion at least) than weaving/blending that usually happens when I try to encode this material with AutoMKV and the like. I don't know what exactly it's doing, but the results are comparable to motion-comp bob deinterlacers like MCBob, but it's significantly faster (real-time vs. 5fps). So what I would like to do is feed the Cyberlink decoder in to Avisynth, to have it decode and deinterlace the material before passing it on to x264 for encoding. I've tried setting up a filter graph chain with GraphEdit and feeding that in to Avisynth, and while I can come up with something that works as a chain it's missing any hardware acceleration. As a result the Cyberlink decoder uses its own internal software deinterlacer which isn't nearly as good. So basically my question is: is there any way to set up a filter graph such that the Cyberlink decoder is still DXVA/hardware accelerated works with avisynth? I realize it's probably a crazy idea, but I'm stubborn and want to make it work if possible. The video card, for anyone curious, is a GeForce 8800GTX. Last edited by ViRGE; 3rd March 2009 at 05:25.

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Blue_MiSfit Derek Prestegard IRL Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,989	IIRC, you can't do this, because the GPU does all the work internally and then passes it out to the LCD. You can take advantage of H.264 / VC1 decoding and deinterlacing via CUDA, but this requires neuron2's special tools. I don't think he has such a tool for MPEG-2 yet. ~MiSfit __________________ These are all my personal statements, not those of my employer :)

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Blue_MiSfit Derek Prestegard IRL Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,989	Wow! Well done neuron2 ~MiSfit __________________ These are all my personal statements, not those of my employer :)