RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Woods
> get_iplayer doesn't attempt any transcoding of video - it > just remuxes the flv into mp4 And also to the suggestion of using python script Kieran... I'm not *quite* that nerdy to pipe my video through mplayer, I usually give up in frustration before getting it working! ;-) I ended up giving

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Lewis
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 14:00 +, Christopher Woods wrote: > ... > and I specifically download using the --raw flag to > avoid any transcoding. The test files themselves remain as-is as .flv files > and I can just drop them into MPC, VLC or smplayer (etc) for playback. get_iplayer doesn't attempt

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Kieran Kunhya
There's always get_iplayer.py. You can pipe the output straight into mplayer. --- On Mon, 10/1/11, Christopher Woods wrote: > From: Christopher Woods > Subject: RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos... > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Date: Monday, 10 January, 2011

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Woods
> I think the iPlayer app in MythTV or Boxee should let you > watch using hardware acceleration. Well, Boxee doesn't want to fully hardware accelerate. The colourspace is squashed, which indicates it's *trying* to use hardware acceleration (the colourspace is being squashed into 16-235, which i

Re: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Anthony McKale
There's a wmode u can add to speed up iplayer (wmode=gpu) by making flash write directly to the gpu screen buffer instead of the screen buffer, or a canvas inside the broqwser (wmode=transparent) unfortunately all the tests I did showed gpu wmode isn't quite ready for production (a bit flaky on som

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Woods
> It might not handle Main profile maybe? I'd hazard a guess > that YouTube stuff is all Baseline... > > (though this doesn't explain my MPC would play it all back > swimmingly unless there's some transcoding voodoo going on > rather than just > re-containering) I can assure you that MPC (with

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Kieran Kunhya
I think the iPlayer app in MythTV or Boxee should let you watch using hardware acceleration. --- On Mon, 10/1/11, Christopher Woods wrote: > From: Christopher Woods > Subject: RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos... > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Date: Monday,

Re: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:24, Christopher Woods wrote: > Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p plays at 30fps thanks to the > NVidia ION GPU acceleration. (I've also tried both the 10.1 beta and the > final release as bundled in Chrome). Unfortunately the iPlayer web player > doesn't see

RE: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Woods
> It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player, it's quite > buggy and a bit of a cpu hog, > > Good news is adobe are making it better all the time, so a > lot of the early buggyiness is gone, it's just the cpu > concerns that are about, Indeed, 10.2 is much better and regular 1080p play

Re: [backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Anthony McKale
It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player, it's quite buggy and a bit of a cpu hog, Good news is adobe are making it better all the time, so a lot of the early buggyiness is gone, it's just the cpu concerns that are about, You'll see a big cpu spike of h264 compared to the other v6 and so

[backstage] Enabling NVIDIA GPU acceleration on iPlayer videos...

2011-01-10 Thread Christopher Woods
I got a Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook with an integrated NVIDIA ION GPU for Christmas :-) It's a 1.6GHz device which I can easily top out the CPU on, but with DXVA support and an HDMI port it becomes an ideal low-cost HTPC substitute for occasional viewing. The first thing I set off to try was the GP