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Old 16th May 2008, 17:05   #61  |  Link
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Here is my CPU-Z http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/cpuz.PNG
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Old 16th May 2008, 17:31   #62  |  Link
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Please hold on, we're investigating.

BTW you're guys are making sure to turn off the logo before you do your tests, right?
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Old 16th May 2008, 17:48   #63  |  Link
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I noticed you used the null renderer, how do things play out with the a renderer attached?
The numbers are different with VMR9 but difference between CoreAVC and your decoder is still the same. CoreAVC is still faster.

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Please hold on, we're investigating.

BTW you're guys are making sure to turn off the logo before you do your tests, right?
Yes, I disabled logo.
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Old 16th May 2008, 18:29   #64  |  Link
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Please hold on, we're investigating.

BTW you're guys are making sure to turn off the logo before you do your tests, right?
No, I didn't. While I will turn it off once (if) I'll use it productively, all testes are done with complete default settings.

If you feel the logo impacts performance by that much.....may I suggest you consider removing it. It adds zero value to the customer anyways and frankly, I would assume it annoys most of them...sorry :-)

Edit: Also a very quick tests with only one run each (logo on/off) shows basically no difference.

And while I'm at it, some more things I noticed:
The installer didn't quite create the start menu shortcut right, it points to:
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C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\PROGRA~2\DivX\DivX Codec H264\DivXDecH264.ax Config
while the files are actually in:
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C:\Program Files (x86)\DivX\DivX Codec H264
I'm also pretty sure it should be in quotes (").

The uninstaller is correct though:
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"C:\Program Files (x86)\DivX\DivXH264CodecBundleUninstall.exe"

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Old 16th May 2008, 18:39   #65  |  Link
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No, I didn't. While I will turn it off once (if) I'll use it productively, all testes are done with complete default settings.

If you feel the logo impacts performance by that much.....may I suggest you consider removing it. It adds zero value to the customer anyways and frankly, I would assume it annoys most of them...sorry :-)
The logo impacts performance for the first 10 seconds or so. If you're running a test on a 30 second clip, you're not getting an accurate picture. The effect is not big but your numbers will be skewed.

I don't think that logo is that annoying and there are reasons to keep it on by default in the beta.

Can anyone suggest where I might find 300.2006.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-CtrlHD.sample.noaudio.mkv?
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Old 16th May 2008, 18:49   #66  |  Link
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The logo impacts performance for the first 10 seconds or so. If you're running a test on a 30 second clip, you're not getting an accurate picture. The effect is not big but your numbers will be skewed.
Ok then, I just did a quick test and saw hardly any difference, but next benchmarks i'll run I'll make sure to disable it. I'm too tired to perform real tests now (yes. I actually do run each 3 times and average over them ;-))

If you need any of my clips, pm me.

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Old 16th May 2008, 19:54   #67  |  Link
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300.2006.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-CtrlHD.sample.noaudio.mkv

http://www.mediafire.com/?1d1i1m39waz

It's from Dark Shikari's x264 blog http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/
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Old 16th May 2008, 20:00   #68  |  Link
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Thank you.

Part of the problem is that Beta 1 uses YUY2 by default, while CoreAVC defaults to YV12. YUY2 is slower. I'm not sure why it didn't show up in Al's tests.

I'll benchmark the 300 clip and we'll try to get you an updated build as soon as we can.

p.s. does anyone know what 'fps' is in TimeCodec? (decoding framerate seems to be 'dfps')

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Old 17th May 2008, 02:54   #69  |  Link
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Hi all,

I've just posted an update on the project home page with some of the feedback we've been getting so far, including a note about the color space issue we're seeing that we believe is causing some of you to see different results than we do on our test box for Beta 1.

We'll aim to get a new build out next week.
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Old 17th May 2008, 05:58   #70  |  Link
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Anybody care to share the tools (or the names) that you guys are using to benchmark this decoder so i could do the same on my machine?
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Old 17th May 2008, 06:29   #71  |  Link
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Hi all,

I've just posted an update on the project home page with some of the feedback we've been getting so far, including a note about the color space issue we're seeing that we believe is causing some of you to see different results than we do on our test box for Beta 1.

We'll aim to get a new build out next week.
Just as a note, since you're aiming to get lossless support working, I'd like to note that lossless+CABAC has some bitstream issues in current x264 (regression probably a week or two ago), so if you're using the latest and wondering why it won't work in your decoder, it isn't your fault

Edit: Fixed in official x264.

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I did a few quick tests with the DivX H.264 Decoder Beta-1 this morning.
It seems to work 100% fine with a bunch HD trailer I have tested. Performance is also great on my Quadcore.
Congratulations so far, but CoreAVC is still a bit faster...

Here are my result from the "Syriana" 1080p trailer:
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[ffdshow-tryouts]
(NULL) User: 45s, kernel: 0s, total: 45s, real: 57s, fps: 74.9, dfps: 58.8
(VMR9) User: 88s, kernel: 0s, total: 89s, real: 109s, fps: 38.3, dfps: 31.1

[DivX H.264 Decoder]
(NULL) User: 10s, kernel: 0s, total: 11s, real: 22s, fps: 309.5, dfps: 148.8
(VMR9) User: 62s, kernel: 0s, total: 63s, real: 72s, fps: 53.8, dfps: 47.2

[CoreAVCDecoder Trial]
(NULL) User: 7s, kernel: 0s, total: 7s, real: 21s, fps: 458.4, dfps: 156.7
(VMR9) User: 48s, kernel: 0s, total: 48s, real: 56s, fps: 70.8, dfps: 60.0

The problem is, the DivX Decoder doesn't work with the H.264 videos I encoded myself (using x264 and Avidemux).
Either the video doesn't run smooth (although CPU load is at ~5%) or 'mplayerc'.exe crashes in module 'divxdech264.ax'.
Tried muxing to several containers (MP4, MKV, AVI), but all of them don't play smooth (except for MP4, MP4 simply crashes).
I also tried 'internal' splitters vs. Haali Media Splitter. No difference...

Here is the file information, as reported by Avinaptic:
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[ About H.264 encoding ]

User data: x264
User data: core 59 r839 27c3071
User data: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
User data: Copyleft 2003-2008
User data: http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
User data: cabac=1
User data: ref=6
User data: deblock=1:0:0
User data: analyse=0x3:0x113
User data: me=umh
User data: subme=7
User data: brdo=1
User data: mixed_ref=1
User data: me_range=24
User data: chroma_me=1
User data: trellis=1
User data: 8x8dct=1
User data: cqm=0
User data: deadzone=21,11
User data: chroma_qp_offset=0
User data: threads=6
User data: nr=0
User data: decimate=1
User data: mbaff=0
User data: bframes=15
User data: b_pyramid=1
User data: b_adapt=1
User data: b_bias=0
User data: direct=3
User data: wpredb=1
User data: bime=1
User data: keyint=1000
User data: keyint_min=25
User data: scenecut=40(pre)
User data: rc=2pass
User data: bitrate=851
User data: ratetol=1,0
User data: rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)'
User data: qcomp=1,00
User data: qpmin=10
User data: qpmax=51
User data: qpstep=4
User data: cplxblur=20,0
User data: qblur=0,5
User data: ip_ratio=1,40
User data: pb_ratio=1,30
User data: aq=2:1,00
SPS id: 0
  Profile: High@L5.1
  Num ref frames: 6
  Aspect ratio: Square pixels
  Chroma format idc: YUV 4:2:0
PPS id: 0 (SPS: 0)
  Entropy coding type: CABAC
  Weighted prediction: No
  Weighted bipred idc: B slices - implicit weighted prediction
  8x8dct: Yes
Number of frames: 147239
Drop/delay frames: 0
Corrupted frames: 0

P-slices: 60437 ( 41.047 %) ##########               
B-slices: 86345 ( 58.643 %) ###############          
I-slices:   457 (  0.310 %)                          
SP-slices:     0 (  0.000 %)                          
SI-slices:     0 (  0.000 %)
Note: Those files run 100% fine when I use MPC with ffdshow/CoreAVC or MPlayer.


// EDIT

I have uploaded a short sample here:
http://mplayer.somestuff.org/misc/h264_sample.7z

PW is "Remoulade"


Using the DivX H.264 Decoder, I get:


Using ffdshow-tryouts for the very same video, I get:


Using Haali Renderer and Haali Media Splitter in both cases.
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Anybody care to share the tools (or the names) that you guys are using to benchmark this decoder so i could do the same on my machine?
I use Haali's Timecodec, and I imagin othe people doing the same.
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Old 17th May 2008, 19:21   #74  |  Link
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I am wondering if Adobe will use this instead for the H.264 decoder inside Flash.
Since the decoder was license from MainConcept and now Mainconcept is part of Divx.

Any chance for a Mac version?
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Old 18th May 2008, 01:37   #75  |  Link
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Is anyone experiencing an issue with divx codec overriding the Coreavc as the preferred decoder? Even after I try to set it again from the coreavc dialog it won't pass up the divx codec for merit. All I can do is uninstall it to play videos with core
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ChronoCross: I see that also. That shouldn't happen and I'll bring it up next week.
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Is anyone experiencing an issue with divx codec overriding the Coreavc as the preferred decoder? Even after I try to set it again from the coreavc dialog it won't pass up the divx codec for merit. All I can do is uninstall it to play videos with core
I experienced the exact opposite. After installation CoreAVC still decoded the video, but then I hat it prefered in MPC HC, so I disabled Core. Then the MPC internal decoder took over and only after decoding this DivX kicked in...
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I'm using MPC (media player classic). The decoder is not updating the OSD (on-screen display).
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Old 18th May 2008, 10:04   #79  |  Link
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Is a Linux version planned?
I'm interested in this too. Could be good for a HTPC.
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Old 18th May 2008, 11:30   #80  |  Link
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file specs: x264_hp_2pass_720x288_B3-Ref_Ref5_p4x4-i8x8_loop-5_WBP_cabac_cqm-qmatrix
cpu: pentium3 866mhz

result:
DivxH264 42.83fps
ffdshow 64.48fps
CoreAVC 75.57fps

so it doesnt seem to be very fast on non-multithreading cpus


it also crashed on a baseline profile sample i created with x264: x264-r285_bp_720x288_B0_Ref5_p8x8-i4x4_loop-5_wbp_mp4box.mp4
if you want i can upload it
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