2010-01-11, 21:37
tiben20 Wrote:Ghizzu if you can give me enough information on how it could work and be worth it. Ill see what i can do. Here what i need First get graphstudio create or connect to mpc playing the http streams and print screen the graph. And ill need some specification on what you need to use in ffdshow. I really need the specific options you want to deal with in ffdshow. I dont want to integrate the entire options of ffdshow in the xbmc interface. There a lot of useless stuff. Just pm me with those info and ill see what i can do
Well, the question wasn't specifically directed at me, but since it was asked, I'll respond. I am also wanting to use ffdshow in XBMC for two major reasons:
1) the default decoder (or something within the playback chain) in XBMC isn't efficient - I have an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Dual Core, and XBMC stutters on 1080p/x264 videos - ZoomPlayer with ffdshow has no problem playing back any of my content perfectly fluidly. But I'd prefer the internal player to work so that I can benefit from the internal skinned OSD, a single set of controls for consistency, the internal info display while playing media, etc. (I realize that the purpose of your new DSPlayer Tiben20, is to enable hardware decoding, so the 1080p content shouldn't be a problem any longer, but at least on ATI cards, L4.1 profile is the max for 1080p HW decoding, and so, L5.1 videos are still going to be a problem with the default player - ffdshow should solve this problem for those with marginally powerful enough processors).
And, (this is the one where you might need to integrate the features of ffdshow):
2) The built-in scaling methods in XBMC are just too soft. 720p bluray or hdtv encodes look very soft, bordering on blurry. Using ffdshow with an external player, I use the "Resize & aspect" feature to resize anything where w<1920 to 1920w; keep original aspect ratio; and under the settings sub-tab, Luma and Chroma methods are both set to Lanczos; and Number of taps is set to 4.0. Playing the same videos with ffdshow set like this looks *much* sharper than with the default XBMC scaler. For SD xvid I also from time to time like to use the sharpen filter, but I don't watch much of that format.
Other than that, I don't personally use any of the other ffdshow settings, just the resize with lanczos 4 taps, and occasionally sharpen.
Cheers, and thanks for the hard work!
The REAL Joe