10-26-07, 03:10 AM
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xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
Hi,
My question is simple: Is there any plans for xvmc support on geforce 8600 GT ? I pay 150 euros for this card and it would be cool to have that support (specially for HD TV) Thanks |
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10-26-07, 05:11 AM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
And one more question: Is xvmc designed only for acceleration of MPEG-2 or does it also work on H.264?
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10-26-07, 02:03 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
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S3 added XvMC support to its Chrome GPUs recently. But in Europe their cards are impossible to buy. This might be alternative till Nvidia will bring XvMC back to new Geforces. Nobody tested S3 in Linux yet. |
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10-26-07, 02:50 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
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- Nvidia driver does not support MPEG-4. + Nvidia hardware since geforce6 supports MPEG-4. = Ask Nvidia to add MPEG-4 support to Linux driver to complete the broken chain. X.org developers are working on improving XvMC with better acceleration: http://people.freedesktop.org/~zhen/xds2007_xvmc.pdf here they work: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~zhen/videoproto/ The sad thing is that all these great XvMC API and top quality hardware is killed with primitive driver which is unable to use these features. Big GPU companies waste time and money on making powerful hardware which then remains unused. The R&D resources should be equally split between hardware and driver creation to make really good product. This sick situation will continue till customers will check what in real life is offered than blindly believing in raw tech specs on colourful boxes or in newspaper news. By using Linux I learned to check driver features first, later ask other users if these driver caps are supported for real then buy. I still remember ATI Radeon 9000 and loudly advertised fullstream deblocking feature for smoothing blocky movies. It was never implemented in driver even in windows == totally unusable (only Radeon 9500 and higher supported this feature only in DivX player and only in special edition of RealPlayer which was not downloadable). This post is not against Nvidia because all other GPU manufacturers have the same problem. I can only blame the press which focus on paper tech specs of GPUs instead of checking how they look in real life after driver installation. I hope r.i.p Nvidia XvMC will come back someday in glory by adding full acceleration suite and not only mpeg-2. |
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10-27-07, 04:29 AM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
And no developer to answer the question ;-)
Time to wait and see if ati/amd have better driver... |
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10-27-07, 01:55 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
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ATI/AMD has no XvMC at all. They improved driver much in 3D, but 2D and video is still behind Nvidia. To my surprise S3 (which has 0,03% of market) developed initial driver for Chrome S20 GPUs with XvMC hardware acceleration. Very well. They have done in initial driver what ATI can not do since 8 years, and what Nvidia has trouble with. Big come back. What a pity I can not buy S3 Chrome here in Europe to check what it can do. Believe or not but there is a group of people who use XvMC, video and 2D all the time and 3D occasionally. |
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10-28-07, 12:22 AM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
There are notebooks with chrome video. Even in europe. Just google. And read all the horror stories....
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09-24-08, 10:08 AM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
NO CPU CAN MANAGE FULL HD 1080P without xvmc card.
I am playing FULL HD mkv files and I have CPU usage of 99.7%. I have test it on lots of AMD's and Intel Proccessors. I am testing 8500GT and 9600GS cards and I will return them back because of no xvmc support. If Nvidia wants to sell cards to Linux users they have to make xvmc support to their cards. I am using NVIDIA cards lots of years now but I am searching for a new brand because of this. |
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09-24-08, 10:15 AM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
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I don't even use hardware-accelerated decoding on Windows because, frankly, there are better quality software decoders. |
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09-24-08, 12:54 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
I can play 1080p movies at ~45% cpu usage on one core on my e8400 @ 3.6ghz. GPU accelerated video is useful in the case of mid to low range HTPC's, stating no cpu can handle 1080p content is just ridiculous.
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09-26-08, 01:08 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
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It drops frames, and is at 100% cpu load. It would be nice if my 8600 GT would help this cpu out. Maybe I will downgrade to my old 6600, to see if I get faster video playback. Bram |
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09-26-08, 02:30 PM
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Re: xvmc and geforce 8600 GT
Ok, I downgraded from 8600 GT to my old 6600.
As a side note: 2d performance is much better (!) But the 1080p video playback is still too slow. mplayer -vo xvmc gives me: ... vo_xvmc: X-Video extension 2.2 vo_xvmc: X-Video MotionCompensation Extension version 1.1 ... The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. ... H264 is not supported by xvmc, not even with a 6 series. Too bad, as it means I can only view this video if I upgrade my motherboard and cpu. Bram |
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