is there some way to enable the hwpostfilter when playing RV9/10?

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I have a Radeon 9100. when i played the film encoded with rv8, i noticed that the realplayer displayed HWpostfilter=1. but it's 0 when playing rv9 or rv10 films.
So, i want to make sure if i can make it enabled

[slavickas]

iirc Karl said that hw postfiletering only works for rv8 (maybe olders too), and don't for rv9. probably it's impossible to do it because rv9 uses in-loop filtering, so hardware would need do whole decoding process

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thanx
i have read karl_lillevold's posts. so i was thinking the postfilter is just something like HFE, and maybe it can be done by hardware

[karl_lillevold]

slavickas is right. The Radeon 8xxx and 9xxx postfilter was designed for RV8. HFE is so new we have not yet thought about h/w acceleration, but just like the smoothing postfilter for RV8, it is written to postfilter directly to video memory, and is almost free since CPU cycles are spent during the write-to-memory cycles *). This means the overhead is actually very small, and to be honest, the h/w postfilter for RV8 made only a tiny difference.

*) except the sharpening effect which is more CPU intensive. HFE2 by itself takes almost no extra CPU time.

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thank you for explanation!