(2015-07-17, 23:17)Martijn Wrote:

(2015-07-17, 23:16)levi.baker88 Wrote: Question for a Dev, does Kodi come preloaded with either AMD or Nvidia drivers?

NO, you must supply/install the drivers yourself or they are auto installed by Windows itself.

(2015-07-18, 08:48)Helioy Wrote:

(2015-07-17, 19:37)Uukrul Wrote: Could someone with a graphics card compatible with HEVC try the sample http://www.elecard.com/assets/files/other/clips/140803_4k_hm130_4s_sao_dbf_qp27.265 from the Elecard homepage?

I purchased a GTX 960 to replace a GTX 650TI and MPC-HC can play the sample smoothly with hardware acceleration. With Kodi, all I get is the same choppy playback I got with the GTX 650TI.

Here is the debug log.

Broadwell i5 nuc with 1080p display. Playback seems fine at first sight, but there is a lot of stuttering and ~300 skipped frames after 2 minutes, but I think that is because of too high framerate for the unit as it is only able to do semi x265 hardware decoding.

(2015-07-18, 12:45)levi.baker88 Wrote: What CPU do you have?

Quote:One advantage the GM206 GPU holds over GM204 is its new video engine. While the GeForce GTX 970 and 980 support H.265 (HEVC) video encoding, only the GeForce GTX 960 decodes this forward-looking format. The GeForce GTX 960 promises to be an excellent choice for home theater PCs with the ability to play back 4K video at low power, and natively supporting HDCP 2.2 content over HDMI 2.0.

(2015-07-18, 23:59)levi.baker88 Wrote: Nope, don't have [H/W], probably due to what you quoted above. May need to await a response from a Dev to see if it is DX11 related otherwise this issue may need to be moved to it's own thread.

(2015-07-19, 18:22)Robotica Wrote: DX11 offers multithreading but as I understand such features currently aren't implemented. Any plans on doing that? And DX12 brings asynchronous shaders, which allow other compute tasks to run in parallel with graphics. Seems like a nice upgrade as well.

Or aren't such performance features interesting at all for Kodi on Windows?

(2015-07-19, 19:06)nille02 Wrote: So, i downgraded my Laptop back to Win 7 and with this, he can use Feature Level 9.3 through DX11.1 and DXVA Works.

(2015-07-19, 21:32)afedchin Wrote:

(2015-07-19, 18:22)Robotica Wrote: DX11 offers multithreading but as I understand such features currently aren't implemented. Any plans on doing that? And DX12 brings asynchronous shaders, which allow other compute tasks to run in parallel with graphics. Seems like a nice upgrade as well.

Or aren't such performance features interesting at all for Kodi on Windows?

Which features currently not implemented?
DX12 available only on Win10. We have no plans to drop support Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 I don't think what dx12 will bring us to new level of performance. Don't trust marketing, they were saying same about

(2015-07-12, 00:57)bluechris Wrote:

(2015-06-29, 09:18)Shine Wrote:

(2015-06-28, 20:27)afedchin Wrote: @Shine I'll take a look. But always on top for full screen mode sounds strange. This mode is already top most.

"Always on top" means it stays topmost, it won't minimize the instant you try to do anything else with your computer, or if e.g. another program pops up a message box.
Yes, people have been asking for this for years, but it wasn't possible in D3D9 - with DX11 it's possible.

@afedchin did you had time to see what @Shine says here? its very crucial for me also since in my dual monitor setup i get always panning in windowed mode and in full screen mode my browsing monitor becomes useless since if i touch anything in it kodi or isenguard minimises.

thx for your great work.

(2015-07-12, 12:56)afedchin Wrote: @bluechris,
I'll definitely take a look asap.

• Fixed issue where Kodi cannot start on GPU whose driver not exposes feature levels 9.x
  
• Rebased onto Isengard release