Thank You Tie, for the hope and the link! I will!
"Tie Various" wrote:
| Wow.. I am impressed of your analysis... I didnt take the time to search
it
| in such depth...
|
| I suggest you repost all this info to a specialized newsgrou for
| multimedia...
|
| its this one in case you have not seen it:
|
| microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_vide o
|
| This is a general newsgroup, but perhaps in that specialized one you might
| fall onto a MVP
| or even someone from MSFT.
|
| Good luck in finding the best solution.
|
|
|
|
| "George Valkov" <> wrote in message
| news:%23MQCb8%...
| > "Tie Various" wrote:
| > | Question:
| > |
| > | do other videos from a dvd or a downloaded video play ok?
| > |
| > | or does the CPU go at 100% too?
| > It is much higher with the Default Render, because the overlay is
| > unavailable (I have explained this later). It is almost the same with
VMR9
| > and Overlay Render.
| >
| >
| > | Vista is always slower in all these multimedia stuff.. I had a
multitude
| > of
| > | problems with a leadtek
| > | tv card.... with all latest vista drivers... performance SUCKED...
| > |
| > | I wont say how bad performance was when I was recording video.. lol so
| > bad
| > | its a joke.
| > |
| > | on XP it worked PERFECTLY! lol
| > |
| > | THANK GOD I USE XP NOW!!!
| > |
| > | VISTA = BAD
| > |
| > |
| >
| > I found one of the secrets of Vista. The Aero effect is actually
performed
| > using the hardware accelerated Video Overlay.
| >
| > When Aero is enabled, the Video Overlay is unavailable. Video will play
| > through GDI (slow). Another option to play video is Video Mixing Render
9
| > (VMR9) (must be enabled in the player). This is a little faster than
GDI,
| > but slower than the Overlay.
| >
| >
| > When I try to render a video file, the Default Video Render will be
used.
| > Because the Overlay in use by Aero, the Render will fall back to GDI
| > (slow).
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-01.png
| >
| > If the player choose to use VMR9, the performance is a little bit
better.
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-02.png
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-07.png
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-06.png
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...eo-02-VMR9.png
| >
| > If the player requests Overlay Mixer, Vista complains "This application
is
| > not compatible with Aero... Aero will be disabled, until the application
| > exits.". Performance is better.
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-03.png
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-05.png
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...01-overlay.png
| >
| > At that point I can also connect the Video Capture to the Overlay. The
CPU
| > usage goes very high, but this time lower than 100%. TV plays smoothly
at
| > full 720x576 25 fps.
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-04.png
| >
| > An alternative is to switch to the Windows Classic Theme and connect to
| > the
| > Default Video Render. Because the Video Overlay is freed, it will be
used.
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...a-video-08.png
| >
| > The TV is now watchable, but 88% CPU usage is far away from 8%! I
remember
| > reading that Vista will be much faster for multimedia, than XP. Excuse
me?
| > 88% < 8%? Microsoft's advertising team must very have a strange sense of
| > humour ;-)
| >
| > Here is a tool that uses the video overlay to make parts from windows
look
| > transparent:
| >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-capture/alpha-1.2.7z
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > | "George Valkov" <> wrote in message
| > | news:%23h$...
| > | >I have an AIW9600XT 128 MB video card with TV-tuner and Video in.
| > | >
| > | > It works fine in XP. CPU usage is 8% when using the Video Overlay,
and
| > 22%
| > | > with Video Mixing Render 9. Audio plays fine.
| > | >
| > | > In Vista however, Audio plays fine, but there are a lot of dropped
| > video
| > | > frames, CPU usage is always 100%. Can I do anything to watch TV
under
| > | > windows Vista? The latest video drivers are installed.
| > | >
| > | > You can see a few samples made with Graph Edit:
| > | >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-capture/XP-01.png
| > | >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...xp-grab-01.mp4
| > | >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-c...ta-grab-01.mp4
| > | >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-capture/Vista-01.png
| > | >
http://gfc.my.contact.bg/tests/wdm-capture/Vista-02.png
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > Help me, please!
| > | >
| > | > George Valkov
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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