No enable acceleration

[daler5150]

I have Windows 8 64 bit and Radeon hd 6670. But I don't have enable acceleration in ccc. Only steady video. Yes I have latest driver (13.4), when I download media codec pack, it installs over driver installation. 100mb difference. No enable, no video converter, no kidding! What's up? No nothing for Win 8 64 bit?

 

[photonboy]

I have NVidia, but I would imagine that hardware acceleration is enabled automatically when you choose certain ADVANCED VIDEO settings.

Be aware that most experts recommend NOT using hardware acceleration as the choices made by the graphics card software (contrast, flesh tone correction etc. ) often mess up the video.

This is the way I recommend you watch video:

1) DISABLE any advanced video features such as Flesh Tone etc. in CCC.

2) Install the 32-bit K-Lite Codec Pack (64-bit version can ALSO be downloaded but I just use it to add thumbnail support for Windows Explorer).

3) When installing K-Lite, you'll see the option for H.264, VC1 and MPEG2 to be checked for acceleration. DO. NOT. USE. THEM.
*If you have an older CPU that is being quite stressed then go ahead and check these three options here to reduce the CPU load.

4) Check certain features in WMPC-HD like "remember file position".

VIDEO CONVERSION:
The best method for this is to use HANDBRAKE which uses the CPU. There are really no good hardware accelerated programs.

 

[daler5150]

Thanks photonboy for your quick response and advise. I do a lot of converting and the only reason I bought the card was so I could take advantage of AMD APP. I had read so much about it and it sounded like a great utility in Radeon. Nothing but a headache and endless let downs. I'm reading where they're button disappears and they go into the support folder and open a few .exes and walla it works! As though Media Video Codec Pack unzipped but didn't install. They're AMD Video Converter button magically appears again under Video tab in CCC. No such thing for me. I never got to first base with enable acceleration tick box. I've had great success the old fashioned way. I'm going to give Handbrake a try, (never used it) and see if that speeds up my conversions. Thanks again for your help.

 

[photonboy]

Thanks photonboy for your quick response and advise. I do a lot of converting and the only reason I bought the card was so I could take advantage of AMD APP. I had read so much about it and it sounded like a great utility in Radeon. Nothing but a headache and endless let downs. I'm reading where they're button disappears and they go into the support folder and open a few .exes and walla it works! As though Media Video Codec Pack unzipped but didn't install. They're AMD Video Converter button magically appears again under Video tab in CCC. No such thing for me. I never got to first base with enable acceleration tick box. I've had great success the old fashioned way. I'm going to give Handbrake a try, (never used it) and see if that speeds up my conversions. Thanks again for your help.

I bought the HD3870 back when they were promising great things with their encoding tools. It's just never happened.

I've investigated every video conversion software program available and the ONLY one I've found that works well is Handbrake. There's a small learning curve but it's not too bad.

Here's some TIPS for a typical encode to get you started. Maybe copy them:

SETUP:
Set the PATH in the Settings to reflect the same folder ( {source_path} ). You'll see what I mean.

1) Use MKVtoolnix to remove any subtitles or audio tracks you don't want
2) DRAG over the video into HANDBRAKE to be converted
3) Use "Regular-> Normal"
4) Anamorphic "NONE"
5) Filters ( ALL "OFF")
6) Video (use "Average bitrate" such as 1500kbps and "2-pass encoding")
7) Audio (example AAC_FAAC at 160kbps).
8) click "START"

*If you haven't added any features like deblocking etc then you should be able to use all of your CPU threads. I was using at times all EIGHT of the threads on my i7-3770K.

Other:
DECOMB is for badly interlaced video. I have some anime DVD's that I ripped to drive and experimented with different DECOMB settings and finally fixed the problem and now have a single file (with chapters) to represent each DVD but the interlacing issue is gone. I copied them to my Western Digital TV LIVE HUB and watch them on my HDTV.

DEBLOCKING and other settings have to be used carefully because they can do more harm than good.

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