DVB Link MPEG 2 and H264 together

[sergeo7]

Hi,

I am running windows 7 32bit with DVBdream 1.5. I can't get MCE to play MPEG 2 and H.264 together. When I tweek codecs I can only get either MPEG 2 or H264 with AC3.
Does DVBlink allow for different codecs on one source and if it does how to I get it to work?

[fredx21]

You should not tweak your codec at all. W7 is very good when its time to choose with codec to use and has out of the box support for MPEG-2 and H.264. So both format should just work with a plain vanilla W7 installation.

[Noahb]

hi I am having problem with H.264 my HD channels picture freezes for 1-3 seconds
it seems as if the buffer is too small for HD
I am also seeing a spike in CPU useage when the picture freezes
I am running Windows 7
hardware is intel dualcore 2 G with 4G ram

[fredx21]

Noahb,

What is your video card?

Fred

[Noahb]

Hi I am using A GeForce 7100
when play normal TV I am using about 3-6% CPU
and when playing HD it around 90% for around 15-20 sec and then it drops down to 0% and this is when a get a frozen frame for about 3-5 sec
one other thing I would like to note
my TV is not HD, I can ony play 720p max
could this be my problem?
is my CPU working on reformating 1080p to 720p?
thanks for any feedback
Noah

[arnetnz]

You might find that the H.264 stream is being decoded by the CPU and not the GPU on the card. According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo, MCE in Windows 7 will automatically use nVidia's GPU, I found this not to be the case with my nvidia card, I downloaded nVidia diagnostics and found my GPU utilisation at 0%, I downloaded a warez version of the nVidia Pure codec and this went to 100% with a reduction in CPU Utilisation. This was short lived as I updated my driver and broke it. It was something I did for testing to prove a point, as My MCE box runs headless and is used with extenders, I haven't done anything about it. My Laptop with the Radeon 1600 doesn't have any problem playing recordings in 1080i from a share on my main MCE box.

I am considering going down the Radeon Path for My MCE box due to the issue with nVidia not waking up from s3 sleep.