VLC and Hardware acceleration

[lorife]

Hi,
i'm not an expert in the matter...so I'm asking: I have an ATI HD 4850, is there a way to watch all kind of movies using the hardware acceleration or it's already enabled by default?


Thank you

[VLC_help]

VLC doesn't support hardware video decoding, if that is what you mean.

[lorife]

I've read that using some codecs it's possible to use the power of the graphic card instead of the processor...for example to decode HD movies...but I don't know how to do it.

Could you tell me how to achieve it, maybe with another program? I've also read I could use DXVA codecs but I don't know how..

[VLC_help]

Use Media Player Classic Home Cinema. It has build-in VC-1, MPEG-2 and H.264 DXVA decoders.

[lorife]

thank you! I will try it!
just 1 question, what will I have to do to enable the hardware acceleration? Or it's already active by default?

[VLC_help]

http://cm.cdhoom.com/images/tutorials/80_x264/DXVA1.jpg
they should be on by default.