H264

[emetic]

oh. then my question is, what is noticeably better using it than not using it?

I just use Either CCCP or k-lite and h264 runs great. How can it get better?

As Godfather said, CoreAVC is much more efficient than the one packaged with CCCP. It's licensed software, though, so CCCP can't include it.

On my old pc, installing the standalone coreAVC (and it was only a beta version) dropped my cpu usage for my test file from 100% (=lag) to about 60% (no lag)

It's exactly what's needed in this situation, I do believe.

[pawayne2]

could cpu load be due to video card is into mother board??
My computer does not have a seperte card.

[emetic]

It shouldn't make a huge difference... well, I'm not sure, but I would expect there's very little processing for the video card to do. But I don't know.

So you're still getting high cpu usage when you're playing h264 mkvs?

[silverace99]

Hmm normally i can play h264 just fine.....but recently i downloaded a hd quality recording of a USA vs Canada exhibition basketball game (720p) and it was basically unwatchable. Must have been playing at 1/50 fps. Took a look at CoreAVC but I have no idea how to get my players to use it instead of what i have now (k-lite/ffdshow)

[emetic]

Took a look at CoreAVC but I have no idea how to get my players to use it instead of what i have now (k-lite/ffdshow)

Follow my directions on the previous page.

Yah.. full colour stuff is harded to decode than anime flat colour stuff.

[Chosen1]

thanks sooooo much emetic. very helpful.


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thanks for nothing, apparently. it was fine for a while, but it still delays a bit. Im no where near using enough of my CPU to cause a problem.

The bottom line IMHO: MKV sucks.

The only thing is that no one really cares, and idiots will still release in MKV regardless how I feel about it...

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Last edit. I think I solved my problem. Here is some random info about this subject;

*The group "GGKTHX" is not good.
*ZOOM plays better than MPC (thanks for whoever mentioned that)
*I still think MKV is bad but ill just stfu and watch anime now


thanks again

[emetic]

Fair enough. to think that, I guess. Good on you for working stuff out yourself too; a lot of people can't manage the most basic functions of software before crying for help.

How did you download your GGKTHX release? It might pay to check the CRC32 (or whatever other hash might be supplied) because sometimes the occasional bit of corrupt data can cause laggy and crap playback. I know Azureus/Vuze does CRC checks and re-downloads bad chunks, but I'm not sure about other torrent clients. IRC definitely doesn't and I've had problems with that before.

Sometimes there are jsut badly encoded releases too.

And... .mkv is awesome.

[SomeoneElse]

Okay... so here's why you should love MKV if for no other reason...


AVI works like this... let's say that the sequence below represents a series of frames (individual images) in the file you are playing (a good sized ep will have many thousands) the Bolded ones, (AKA Keyframes) are the frames you can start playing from.

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9

Here is the same sequence in MKV, because of the way it allows the decoder to actively index the whole file, you can skip around at will, the only real limitation being how fast your harddrive can spin...

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9

Add to this the fact that Matroska can handle more advanced codecs, (better compression and better quality) can handle variable bitrate media (smaller filesizes)... and so much more...

It appears to me that what you have difficulty with isn't actually MKV but H.264 which is just as much of a bitch in AVI as in MKV, but is most commonly used in MKV releases due to MKV being capable of handling the codec more dynamically... Plus there's the whole Softsub thing...

Oh yeah... another reason to love MKV... Containered multiple subtracks and soundtracks...