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  • #11
    Originally posted by bridgman View Post
    In terms of steps, I guess it's 4 out of 9 or 44%. In terms of CPU it's probably about the same or maybe a bit lower -- MC and scaling are the biggest CPU hogs.

    The relative CPU utilization in the different stages changes a fair amount depending on the encoder and the encoding parameters that were used.
    let me guess:

    bitstream (no accel)
    IQ (no accel)
    IDCT (no accel)
    MC (no accel)
    deblock (no accel)
    colour space conversion (accel)
    post-filtering (accel)
    de-interlacing (accel)
    scaling (accel)

    I'm probably waaaay off. :P

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    • #12
      Bingo. Sorry I didn't make that clear -- everything from the entry point down is accelerated.

      You pretty much have to do it that way -- accelerating part of the stack, then doing some in CPU, then accelerating some more is usually slower than doing everything in CPU to a certain point then doing the rest on the GPU, since pulling partially processed frames back to system memory is slow and having the CPU work in video memory is slow too.
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      • #13
        Originally posted by bridgman View Post
        You pretty much have to do it that way -- accelerating part of the stack, then doing some in CPU, then accelerating some more is usually slower than doing everything in CPU to a certain point then doing the rest on the GPU, since pulling partially processed frames back to system memory is slow and having the CPU work in video memory is slow too.
        Ah yep the limited bandwidth of the AGP / PCI-X bus. This pretty much reminds me of some optimizations that are required for games. Same sort of thing with triangles and textures.

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        • #14
          Nice!

          Hooray for fanless average performance video cards! I've got a 2600 XT fanless and it's great. I can play almost anything released before 2008 with max details, which is fine cause I can never keep up with the current-year game releases anyway.

          I'd really like to see a comparison benchmark between this and the 2600 XT but I'll take what you have

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          • #15
            Originally posted by bridgman View Post
            In terms of steps, I guess it's 4 out of 9 or 44%. In terms of CPU it's probably about the same or maybe a bit lower -- MC and scaling are the biggest CPU hogs.

            The relative CPU utilization in the different stages changes a fair amount depending on the encoder and the encoding parameters that were used.
            Does this also means that this also work for MPEG4 videos and all newer HD formats, like blu-rays or AVCHD ?

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            • #16
              Yeah, Xv is pretty widely supported so most decoders will use it for output -- and that gets you acceleration for the final steps in the playback stack.

              The upper parts of the stack handle "decoding" - going from a compressed bitstream to an uncompressed YCbCr image in whatever resolution the video was recorded, and the lower parts of the stack handle "rendering" -- getting that YCbCR image on the screen in RGB and the size you want to view it.

              The bitstream format is different for every video format, but they all decompress to YCbCR and that's what gets passed to Xv (so yeah, Xv works for H.264, MPEG4 part 2, VC-1 etc..). The Xv acceleration handles conversion from YCrCb to RGB and scaling from "video" resolution to "window" resolution, plus some filtering.

              I think some decoders perform de-interlacing further up the stack but others let Xv do it, still learning that part.
              Last edited by bridgman; 27 March 2009, 12:47 PM.
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              • #17
                Thanks a lot for all you sharp and fast answers Bridgman.

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