Encoder888
20th March 2008, 05:49
Hi,
I have the following question - does anybody know if it's possible to maximize H.264 playback performance by utilizing all cores of your CPU? I mean, is there a player that does that or... ? I have a Phenom 9500 and I've been encoding BD titles, which originally play seamlessly in PowerDVD as BD m2ts, but when I encode and compress them with x264 and shrink them to 6-7GB .mkv (retaining 1080p and generally at very high quality) and try to play them in BSPlayer or Media Classic, they start skipping once the bitrate per second gets high... I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and I see that only one of my 4 cores is utilized and it is working on 100%, but the other 3 are not doing anything... So I was wondering if there was any way I could utilize all 4 cores, or at least 2 of them when playing my movies. H.264 (x264) uses all 4 when it's encoding, so it would make sense that all 4 could be used when decoding, right? I noticed that all 4 are used when I play the original BD movie in PowerDVD, and it uses H.264 as well... So, that tells me that there must be a way.
ALSO - another thing I was thinking about is, PowerDVD uses hardware decoding, and my videocard has HDCP support, so that certainly helps, I was wondering if there was a player that could make use of that...?
Any help is appreciated :) Thanks
I have the following question - does anybody know if it's possible to maximize H.264 playback performance by utilizing all cores of your CPU? I mean, is there a player that does that or... ? I have a Phenom 9500 and I've been encoding BD titles, which originally play seamlessly in PowerDVD as BD m2ts, but when I encode and compress them with x264 and shrink them to 6-7GB .mkv (retaining 1080p and generally at very high quality) and try to play them in BSPlayer or Media Classic, they start skipping once the bitrate per second gets high... I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and I see that only one of my 4 cores is utilized and it is working on 100%, but the other 3 are not doing anything... So I was wondering if there was any way I could utilize all 4 cores, or at least 2 of them when playing my movies. H.264 (x264) uses all 4 when it's encoding, so it would make sense that all 4 could be used when decoding, right? I noticed that all 4 are used when I play the original BD movie in PowerDVD, and it uses H.264 as well... So, that tells me that there must be a way.
ALSO - another thing I was thinking about is, PowerDVD uses hardware decoding, and my videocard has HDCP support, so that certainly helps, I was wondering if there was a player that could make use of that...?
Any help is appreciated :) Thanks