Can anyone point my to some threads or guides on configuring your HTPC so that video files take advantage of hardware acceleration whenever possible? Here is what I tried so far which kind of works. I have an AMD64 with a 4650 video card.
I installed XP from scratch, then the latest ATI, then PowerDVD that came with my LG Blu-Ray. Discs play fine and use the hardware acceleration. I next installed the k-lite codec pack, but was careful to deselect h264, vc1 and mpeg2. This also works pretty well, when I play mkv or avi files in zoomplayer, i can select filter and see that it is using the Cyberlink driver. It also uses less than 10% cpu.
So that's mostly good, except some of my h264 mkv files won't play which work fine with CoreAVC. Is there any way to easily change the codec that will be used for files like this? I also have a couple of mpg files that lock the cpu at 100% and won't play which also worked ok previously.
Thanks,
Brian
I installed XP from scratch, then the latest ATI, then PowerDVD that came with my LG Blu-Ray. Discs play fine and use the hardware acceleration. I next installed the k-lite codec pack, but was careful to deselect h264, vc1 and mpeg2. This also works pretty well, when I play mkv or avi files in zoomplayer, i can select filter and see that it is using the Cyberlink driver. It also uses less than 10% cpu.
So that's mostly good, except some of my h264 mkv files won't play which work fine with CoreAVC. Is there any way to easily change the codec that will be used for files like this? I also have a couple of mpg files that lock the cpu at 100% and won't play which also worked ok previously.
Thanks,
Brian