Which player that supports QuickSync?

[Nico8583]

Hi,
I have bought a little Gigabyte Brix with an Intel Celeron 2955u CPU (it's an low consumption Haswell CPU) and I would like to know which player supports QuickSync ?
I would like to play AVC x264 1080p movie (CRF 18) and DTS or AC3 audio.
I know PotPlayer supports QuickSync but I know also it's forbidden to talk about it here (but I don't know why :D)
Does MPC-HC or MPC-BE supports QuickSync ? Or is it better and/or possible to add an external renderer like madVR ?
Thanks !

[sneaker_ger]

LAV Filters support both QuickSync and DXVA decoding. They are included in MPC-HC and can be used in MPC-BE if installed externally. QuickSync/DXVA can be combined with madVR without any problems.

[Nico8583]

Thanks ! Have you a link to compare MPC-HC and MPC-BE ? I don't find any comparison between both...
If there is no difference, I'll use MPC-HC because it contains french translation and LAV Filters.

[wOxxOm]

I think MPC-BE (Black Edition) is mostly used for its modern black skin.

http://i.imgur.com/c2KGBPm.jpg

[foxyshadis]

Main difference from MPC-HC is that BE has a slightly different interface design, a new easy splitter forcing page, and slightly different subtitle handling. In most other respects they're practically identical, and generally keep up on each others' updates.

MPC-HC's LAV is identical to the regular one, but it stays unregistered. The only difference vs. installing both BE and LAV separately is that one package should always be up to date, and it won't affect any other media player on the system. (That may be good or bad for you.) Other than that, you should be happy no matter which you choose.

[Nico8583]

Thanks for your screenshot wOxxOm and thanks for comparison foxyshadis ;)
A last question : do you have a link or a tutorial to explain how to correctly configure MPC-HC/MPC-BE with QuickSync and LAV Filters (and perhaps madVR) ?
Thanks !

[Ceremony]

Main difference from MPC-HC is that BE has a slightly different interface design, a new easy splitter forcing page, and slightly different subtitle handling. In most other respects they're practically identical, and generally keep up on each others' updates.

MPC-HC's LAV is identical to the regular one, but it stays unregistered. The only difference vs. installing both BE and LAV separately is that one package should always be up to date, and it won't affect any other media player on the system. (That may be good or bad for you.) Other than that, you should be happy no matter which you choose.
aside from using entirely different filters for splitting and decoding, it also comes with a few extra handy features, such as mouseover preview of the seekbar, buttons for audio and subtitle selection and playback of youtube videos (just paste the yt url).

personally, i use mpc-be with lavfilters (split and decode), ffdshow (filter and mix), xysubfilter (subby subs), madvr (present video) and reclock (present audio).

I configured it like that: deactivate all internal filters and add lav splitter, lav audio decoder and lav video decoder (doubleclick that to configure it for quicksync) as preferred under external filters. under playback -> output, select madVR as directshow video.

[Nico8583]

Thanks, I'm going to try it ;)
Do you know if MPC-BE supports 3D Half SBS (yes because it's like a 2D video) with auto switch TV to 3D SBS ? And do you know if it supports MKV tags ?

[Nico8583]

I was wrong, my Celeron 2955u doesn't support QuickSync :-(
What can I use to play movie with hardware acceleration and Intel HD Graphics ?
Thanks !

[renethx]

It still supports QuickSync decoding.

[Nico8583]

I've read on Intel specifications (http://ark.intel.com/fr/products/75608/intel-celeron-processor-2955u-2m-cache-1_40-ghz) : QuickSync : no
But it's only for encoding ? All Intel CPU supports QuickSync decoding ?

[nevcairiel]

Yes, decoding is available on all CPUs with "Intel Clear Video" feature.

[Nico8583]

Very good, thanks ! So I can let Intel QuickSync on madVR ? Or I must change to DXVA or DXVA2 ?

[renethx]

Either of QS, DXVA2 native, DXVA2 copy-back in LAV Video Decoder should work.

[jkauff]

Very good, thanks ! So I can let Intel QuickSync on madVR ? Or I must change to DXVA or DXVA2 ?
Yes, you can use QS decoding in LAV with madVR.

[Nico8583]

Thanks to all !

[foxyshadis]

Yeah, the Quicksync spec is only for Quicksync encoding, a bit confusing.

[Nico8583]

Thanks !
I've tried a movie with MPC-BE, madVR and LAV filter (with QuickSync). After few seconds, TV become black like when switching HDMI input. It indicates 1920 x 1080 60p but my movie is 23.976p. For me, it seems to not be very good, it seems that I could see keyframe or similar every 3 or 4 seconds...
Does my TV could switch to 24p mode ? How can I force that ?

[jkauff]

Does the movie play properly using software decoding? Doesn't sound like a QS issue, although QS doesn't decode as many frames per second as your CPU using software.

[renethx]

Read

Advanced MPC-HC Setup Guide (http://www.avsforum.com/t/1357375/advanced-mpc-hc-setup-guide)

that covers the topics you need to know.

[Nico8583]

Thanks, I'll try to configure with this setup guide and if it doesn't work I'll try software decoding ;)