can someone post their coreAVC entry in the sage.properties file?

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Use this in your properties file:

Gerry

Originally Posted by Brent

Gerry
For which decoder?

Divx H.264.

[redondo_se]

Originally Posted by Brent

Best results for me are Arcsoft, then CoreAVC and worst was Cyberlink. I'm now getting very good performance from my client PC after doing this and choosing Arcsoft.

Really? Arcsoft looks terrible on Dish HD H.264 channels for me. The motion is smooth, but the picture is very grainy and soft. And, for some reason, it doesn't work at all on the channels that report to be 720p H.264 (as shown in recording detail) such as A&E HD. I'm using the decoder from Totalmedia Extreme (version 1.0.6.23 I think).

I've had the best luck with CoreAVC 1.7, but it's still not perfect. The news tickers on CNN HD and CNBC HD both have a stutter every second or so, and horizontal pans do the same. Cyberlink has terrible stutter in tickers and pans, including latest version 8 update.

I'd like to get my hands on the Divx decoder to give it a try. I submitted a request to the beta site, but haven't gotten a response yet.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

Really? Arcsoft looks terrible on Dish HD H.264 channels for me. The motion is smooth, but the picture is very grainy and soft. And, for some reason, it doesn't work at all on the channels that report to be 720p H.264 (as shown in recording detail) such as A&E HD. I'm using the decoder from Totalmedia Extreme (version 1.0.6.23 I think).

I've had the best luck with CoreAVC 1.7, but it's still not perfect. The news tickers on CNN HD and CNBC HD both have a stutter every second or so, and horizontal pans do the same. Cyberlink has terrible stutter in tickers and pans, including latest version 8 update.

I'd like to get my hands on the Divx decoder to give it a try. I submitted a request to the beta site, but haven't gotten a response yet.

What are the specs of the PC your doing playback with? Should be a dual-core at least in my experience.

[redondo_se]

Originally Posted by Brent

What are the specs of the PC your doing playback with? Should be a dual-core at least in my experience.

I really don't think horespower is an issue. It's an AMD X2 5600+, Nvidia 8600GT, 2 gigs ram. Like I said, playback is smooth with Arcsoft, it just doesn't look good.

I should also mention that playing back a CNCBC HD file in PowerDVD 8 works great. Very nice picture and smooth ticker. I'm still on Sagetv 6.3.5. I wonder if they updated the demux or anything since then.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

I really don't think horespower is an issue. It's an AMD X2 5600+, Nvidia 8600GT, 2 gigs ram. Like I said, playback is smooth with Arcsoft, it just doesn't look good.

Nope I'd agree you seem to have plenty of power there.

I'm still on Sagetv 6.3.5. I wonder if they updated the demux or anything since then.

Wasn't 6.3.5 pre-HD-PVR? I'd move up to 6.4.4 to see if that helps things (after backing up of course)

[phelme]

I have a client with an ATI X1650 and a 3800+ X2. It plays H.264 files from the HD-PVR great, in graphedit and Media Player Classic (CPU is around 40%). So you can see this coming... when I try to play it in SageTV 6.4.5 it just spins a bit and then stops. I have the following set in the sagetvclient.properties file:

videoframe/h264_video_decoder_filter=CyberLink H.264/AVC Decoder (PDVD7.x)
videoframe/aac_audio_decoder_filter=CyberLink Audio Decoder

which is what I've been using successfully in the graph. DirectShow is selected in Adv. settings.

I think the problem is with the aac setting. I've tried leaving it blank with no success.

Any ideas what could be up within Sage? Anyone using PDVD7 drivers have it working with HD-PVR H.264 files?

[technazz]

Originally Posted by phelme

I have a client with an ATI X1650 and a 3800+ X2. It plays H.264 files from the HD-PVR great, in graphedit and Media Player Classic (CPU is around 40%). So you can see this coming... when I try to play it in SageTV 6.4.5 it just spins a bit and then stops. I have the following set in the sagetvclient.properties file:

videoframe/h264_video_decoder_filter=CyberLink H.264/AVC Decoder (PDVD7.x)
videoframe/aac_audio_decoder_filter=CyberLink Audio Decoder

which is what I've been using successfully in the graph. DirectShow is selected in Adv. settings.

I think the problem is with the aac setting. I've tried leaving it blank with no success.

Any ideas what could be up within Sage? Anyone using PDVD7 drivers have it working with HD-PVR H.264 files?

Try setting always_use_dshow_player=true in your properties file



Technazz

[phelme]

Originally Posted by technazz

Try setting always_use_dshow_player=true in your properties file

Technazz

Unfortunately, that didn't help, but thanks.

What does SageTV do to demux a file? I ask because I tried to build & use a graph using the Sage Demultiplexer and I get the same behavior that I'm seeing within Sage, it stalls after the first couple of frames. It only works in Graphedit if I use CyberLink 7 Demux (PDVD7). From the Sage log files, it looks like it tries to use the SageTV MPEG2 Demultiplexer to open the .ts file.

[ben_95sl1]

for me: Sage is definitely behaving differently then windows media player with the same codecs; and in every case it's much worse completely unplayable, sometimes a few frames then stalls, sometimes blank, sometimes garbled sound; always doesn't work.

I'm using PowerDVD 8 and I think part of my problems are hw accel with ATI card: still trying to fix that, even though it plays fine in other players.

Ben