to fully enjoy 720p you need to have a desktop resolution of, at the very least,
1280x720 pixels (most pc\'s minimum will be 1280x960 or 1280x1024 and that\'s ok
too). after you start playing, set it to fullscreen and enjoy!
about performance issues, coreavc is, at the moment, the fastest decoder
available, and even then can be tweaked just a little, by changing \"standard
deblocking\" to \"skip all deblocking\" in its properties.
powerdvd 7 (keep up-to-date with the latest version) also has an avc decoder,
which can be used by other players as well, and has gpu acceleration, which
means using your graphic\'s card to help decode the video. the filter shows as
\"cyberlink h.264/avc decoder (pdvd7)\". it can (and should) be tweaked by opening
its properties and turning on \"use dxva\" (directx video acceleration). it\'s also
adviseable to turn on hardware aceleration on the powerdvd program itself. that
way, cyberlink\'s decoder will try and use your gpu to help decode faster.
latest nero 6 and any nero 7 also have an avc decoder, although i couldn\'t test
its performance, since it does have dxva in its options, but, at least for me,
that option is always turned off.
the freeware, open-source alternative for decoding h.264 is a recent build of
ffdshow. it also can be tweaked by disabling post-processing and skipping all
deblocking for h264. even though, it\'s quite slower than the others, so you
might want to try them first.
1280x720 pixels (most pc\'s minimum will be 1280x960 or 1280x1024 and that\'s ok
too). after you start playing, set it to fullscreen and enjoy!
about performance issues, coreavc is, at the moment, the fastest decoder
available, and even then can be tweaked just a little, by changing \"standard
deblocking\" to \"skip all deblocking\" in its properties.
powerdvd 7 (keep up-to-date with the latest version) also has an avc decoder,
which can be used by other players as well, and has gpu acceleration, which
means using your graphic\'s card to help decode the video. the filter shows as
\"cyberlink h.264/avc decoder (pdvd7)\". it can (and should) be tweaked by opening
its properties and turning on \"use dxva\" (directx video acceleration). it\'s also
adviseable to turn on hardware aceleration on the powerdvd program itself. that
way, cyberlink\'s decoder will try and use your gpu to help decode faster.
latest nero 6 and any nero 7 also have an avc decoder, although i couldn\'t test
its performance, since it does have dxva in its options, but, at least for me,
that option is always turned off.
the freeware, open-source alternative for decoding h.264 is a recent build of
ffdshow. it also can be tweaked by disabling post-processing and skipping all
deblocking for h264. even though, it\'s quite slower than the others, so you
might want to try them first.
