[MPlayer-dev-eng] Status of CoreAVC (last time) and using win32 codecs on x86_64

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:00:56PM +0200, e-t172 wrote:
> Arpi a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:16:37 -0700
> >> Alan Nisota <alannisota at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, I continue to get a lot of mail about using CoreAVC with mplayer, 
> >>> so I thought I'd post a status update.
> > 
> > WTF is coreavc/corecodec ???
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreAVC
> 
> Right now CoreAVC is the only existing solution to play HD video with 
> decent performance (unless you got your PC from the NASA :p ) through a 
> DirectShow filter. Other solutions based on DXVA (if your graphics card 
> supports it) exist, but only proprietary, expansive, bloated software 
> (PureDVD, Nero Digital) supports it.
> 
> CoreAVC can be used with any DirectShow-compatible player, except 
> mplayer which needs a few modifications (the patches we're talking about 
> here).
> 
> Yes, CoreAVC is proprietary. However there is no existing solution at 
> this time to play HD (1080i) video in real time with a totally free 
> software solution. I guess libavcodec could do that if ffh264 was 
> multithreaded (for use with dual-core CPUs).

see (Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] h264 parallelized) on ffmpeg-dev for a
patch which adds slice based multithreading to libavcodec h264


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