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I've posted my patch on the XBMC forums: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11643
Should be easy to integrate into your VLC project. Enjoy it !

We compile avcodec as static in the VLC plugins, so, well we need more to test.

Sure. I'm planning to release the source code this weekend, then you guys can see if you like it

Ok, I fixed the FFMPEG DXVA code that is the source of the problems. Just released a test version (compiled) for XBMC: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=103578
I'll soon release the whole sourcecode, so the VLC users can use it as well (it's the same FFMPEG code).

Irrelevant of whether it uses the code the VLC developers have put inside FFMpeg, XBMC for Windows runs the high bitrate H264 content I have better, especially the well known killa.sampla. My CPU definitely isn't capable of playing it smoothly so both are using hardware decoding and XBMC handles it...

I think it would be good for VLC to implement GPU status processing. The log file currently doesn't show if decoding fails.

Also, it would be nice if the renderer would use DXVA as well (ProcessBlt).

Ah, I understand the difference between VLC and XBMC: XBMC does 1) Rendering as well with DXVA (that call to ProcessBlt) 2) Status processing (the 2 executes communicate GPU status to the host). Ok, so in terms of decoding there doesn't seem to be any difference (which makes sense since XBMC uses th...

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Not sure if this is helpful to a developer, but these are the DXVA api calls in WMP to play a frame correctly in the video sample that I posted: DXVA2_ProcessBlt, 6348, 00:00:11.1179043 DXVA2_DecodeDeviceGetBuffer, 6348, 00:00:11.1187653 DXVA2_DecodeDeviceGetBuffer, 6348, 00:00:11.1187691 DXVA2_Deco...

main debug: processing request item test.wmv node Playlist skip 0 main debug: resyncing on test.wmv main debug: test.wmv is at 0 main debug: starting new item main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for 'test.wmv' main debug: thread started main debug: thread (input) cre...

This video won't play if you have DXVA enabled. It will play if you turn it off: http://www.speedyshare.com/files/28692352/test.wmv Same happens with XBMC. Both on my AMD Zacate (6xxx) and GTS250 laptop. Windows Mediaplayer plays the file correctly, with DXVA (since I can watch it on my Zacate), so ...