Posted - 2007.04.17 19:09:00 - [3]

 

Originally by: Vari

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Your school's not gunna like your bandwidth usage.

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They have a nearly-unused dedicated DS3. They don't care unless I spam their logs, which is why they made me move my sigs

Originally by: Vari

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For those of us with older computers, there's a H.264 decoder called CoreAVC that's fast and quality. The pro version uses both the CPU and graphics card to spit out the video. On a AMD Barton 2500+ I can play 1080p H.264's just fine. I say my shortlist of material worth the HD (and money) is Matrix 1, Pulp Fiction, GITS2, Karas and Casshern. Of course the latter two aren't out yet, but I'll be getting them when they are.

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CoreAVC is great, and is in my upcoming Video Decoding guide, but it does not use the GPU. That is an upcoming feature which is planned, but does not even have a date yet.

It gets its performance by sacrificing accuracy; it is not output-equivalent to the reference decoder, and so is not technically a valid H.264 decoder, but it is very good nonetheless. I cannot watch the video I mentioned in the original post without CoreAVC.

Originally by: Vari

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Smoke looks good, skin is riddled with textures. The video is sharp. 1080p is the future. Buy a $2000 tv today!

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Or a 200 dollar monitor ;)

Originally by: Vari

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HD movies are nearly at the limits of 35mm film. You will be seeing grain

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In my experience most of the grain is from the crappy encoding. Apparently all the new Blu-Ray discs are using MPEG-2 video encoding to start, even though the standard supports VC-1 (WMV9) and H.264. I heard its because Sony hasn't provided them with anything else yet. MPEG-2 is a very noisy codec, which is responsible for that.

Posted - 2007.04.17 19:42:00 - [5]

 

Edited by: Dark Shikari on 17/04/2007 19:38:55

Originally by: Matsuo Masato

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It didn't look THAT amazing too me... but maybe that's because of my crappy screen...

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Its also not directly encoded from the Blu-Ray disc, so there's a bit of transcoding lossiness. And as I said before, they're using MPEG-2 on the discs (extraordinarily stupid) so its not as good as it could be.

To really enjoy it at full quality you have to have at least a 1900 or so horizontal resolution on your screen

Posted - 2007.04.18 01:34:00 - [7]

 

Looked pretty sweet to me. I need to get a new screen as well. I have a sweet 8800GTS and a 5-6 year old LCD monitor.

Posted - 2007.04.18 01:45:00 - [9]

 

yah it looked amazing to me.....You can cheat and play this at a slower speed, you will only notice the sound slow down, not the video...

Seriously, I wish I was my own grandchild that way i could live to CRAP my pants at what we can expect in the next 50 yrs and not yawn while remenising about how Back To The Future was THE BESTEST movie ever...

Posted - 2007.04.18 03:27:00 - [11]

 

Originally by: Benco97

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To be honest.. I don't see the point.
But that's just me, sorry.

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In short, the 35mm gives a lot of detail that DVDs cannot capture. You miss emotional nuances, tons and tons of detail in the movie set (you can clearly see a styrofoam texture on 'marble' in the lobby scene of Matrix 1) and many things that movie directors put in their movies for the big-screen format.

Not all movies benefit from the HD formats, but some definitely do. It's like spending a day with your glasses off.

Originally by: SI RedLeg

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What is the movie? The short clip does not give much away....Cool animation though

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It's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. The backdrops in that movie are amazing.

Posted - 2007.04.18 04:03:00 - [13]

 

Oh thats pretty. The best part is my computer played it back flawlessly

Posted - 2007.04.18 05:22:00 - [15]

 

Heh......I've seen this used as an example clip before (it was for a subwoofer demo then)

Anyone know how much a 50 foot DVI cable costs? I need to get high res stuff like this out to our TV.

Posted - 2007.04.18 05:55:00 - [17]

 

That looked pretty awesome on my 1680x1050 laptop.

Posted - 2007.04.18 10:49:00 - [19]

 

Originally by: Tekka

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That looked pretty awesome on my 1680x1050 laptop.

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mine too :o

Posted - 2007.04.18 13:20:00 - [21]

 

Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/04/2007 05:28:19
29-second sample of a 1080p Blu-Ray video (right click, save as).

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what film is that it looks awsome!

Posted - 2007.04.18 15:35:00 - [23]

 

Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Originally by: Gogar Teltaf

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/04/2007 05:28:19
29-second sample of a 1080p Blu-Ray video (right click, save as).

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what film is that it looks awsome!

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Its Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.

Half anime, half CGI, 100% awesome. Though the storyline is a lot more confusing and crappier than all the other Ghost in the Shell films and TV series.

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Who cares about storyline when it looks cooool!

Posted - 2007.04.18 16:59:00 - [25]

 

Originally by: Kanthras

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I find HD massively overrated, tbh.

Sure, it looks slightly sharper/clearer.
But not it's not worth the premium over DVDs, IMO.

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That logic makes no sense to me.. the way i was raised i suppose..

me and my dad generally go.. OMG SHINEZOR!!! and buy it if it looks cool and is techy... how we ended up with our two 42inch HD tv's :D wireless surround sound speakers!! rarr

not to mention Sky HD full subsrciption!

Posted - 2007.04.18 21:00:00 - [27]

 

Originally by: niko86

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Originally by: Dark Shikari

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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/04/2007 05:31:15

Originally by: Kaemonn

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Oh thats pretty. The best part is my computer played it back flawlessly

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That's normal. Its only WMV9.

If I copied the H.264 stream from the original transcoded video, it would not play it fine .

I can play it fine but at about 65-80% CPU usage on a Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, using the latest version of CoreAVC.

I'm encoding a separate H.264 clip overnight; I'll post it when I wake up. It probably won't run fine on your computer

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Ok i got the CoreAVC thingy installed, i know its a codec or whatever but i notice no difference running it in VLC. Do i need to tell VLC use it or what?

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First of all, the video in the first post is WMV9, not H.264.

Second of all, VLC is codec-independant; it does not use any codecs you have installed on the system and instead uses its own libraries. Because of this it cannot use CoreAVC.

Posted - 2007.04.18 21:33:00 - [29]

 

Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/04/2007 21:29:31

Originally by: niko86

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aye i know the first one is wmv. so what do i use to watch this mkv one? i only got the coreavc codec no player?

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Any player works. Download the CCCP, then open the video and double click the FFDShow Video settings icon in the system tray. Turn off the H.264 decoding in the Codecs (from Libavcodec to Disabled). Then CoreAVC should work automatically when you restart the media player.