#1 2015-12-12 10:44:05

ohnonot

...again

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

x265 aka HEVC

this is a new video codec.
it's really good - the normal tv episode that has been encoded to 350mb with h264, now 150mb with x265, and it looks better. wow.

but it's very resource hungry.

my old 2-core desktop can't keep up with it.

question:
is it possible to tweak media player settings to take some load off the cpu's, either by sacrificing image quality or by making better use of hardware accel or both?
fwiw, i have an nvidia geforce gt 610 with nvidia proprietary driver.
i use mostly mpv, but other suggestions are welcome, if it has the desired effect.

ps:
all other codecs work just fine, even with 1080p

Last edited by ohnonot (2021-07-04 08:11:53)

pvsage

Internal Affairs

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 1,433

Re: x265 aka HEVC

^ I assume you have vdpau installed and enabled?  Other than that and tweaking the "skip H.264 in-loop deblocking filter" in VLC, I can't think of anything else.  (For what it's worth, I have the same nvidia card on my desktop, but I use the nouveau and mesa drivers.)

EDIT:  Don't know how to tweak this in mpv.

Last edited by pvsage (2015-12-12 11:08:40)

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brontosaurusrex

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Re: x265 aka HEVC

If I'am reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Pu … reVideo_HD right, you would want the latest nvidia card and no idea if/how is that implemented in linux (perhaps vdpau support is enough?). Another option seems to be intel http://techreport.com/news/27677/new-in … de-support .

p.s. mpv has a friendly community on freenode.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2015-12-12 20:48:43)

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