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CoreCodec CoreAVC 2.0 RELEASED!!!

post #1 of 12
12/22/09 at 7:04am
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For those who know what this is, it's the moment we've all been waiting for. CoreCodec finally debugged it and released the final version.

Fixes all artifacts formed due to the CoreAVC 1.0 incompatibility with the newest version of x264.
Adds 64 bit support
Adds CUDA GPU support
MUCH MORE...

I won't post the free download link here for certain reasons, but feel free to PM me.
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post #2 of 12
12/22/09 at 8:35am
Or use the excellent ffmpeg for free.
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post #3 of 12
12/22/09 at 8:47am
90% sure FFMPEG doesn't support CUDA.
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post #4 of 12
12/22/09 at 11:59am
It doesn't but there are other codecs out there that will use a graphics card natively (i.e. not through CUDA which does sweet FA on my ATI card).
CoreAVC is good but it's not worth paying the price when there are equally good options that are free and open source.
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post #5 of 12
12/22/09 at 1:44pm
Hmm, going to check this one out. Thanks for the tip!
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post #6 of 12
12/22/09 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by DanielCox View Post
It doesn't but there are other codecs out there that will use a graphics card natively (i.e. not through CUDA which does sweet FA on my ATI card).
CoreAVC is good but it's not worth paying the price when there are equally good options that are free and open source.
I've found that CoreAVC's CUDA is a bit more tolerant of non-standard encoding. But if you don't need or worry about that then there are other options out there for plain DXVA decoding. As it is, the $5 upgrade cost for 2.0 was well worth it for me.

fenixdown110: the older version of CoreAVC already had CUDA acceleration
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post #7 of 12
12/22/09 at 6:40pm
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Originally Posted by DanielCox View Post
Or use the excellent ffmpeg for free.
That's fine on higher end machines, but my friend's computer (overclocked Athlon 64 x2 5000+) and my laptop (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo) both choke on 1080p H.264 via FFmpeg. CoreAVC is the only option sans using ATI Avivo.

I still use FFmpeg on my desktop since it offers better image quality.

Edit: Scratch that. My 3.3GHz Core 2 Quad can't handle very high bitrate H.264. Air TV lags on FFmpeg for me even with all of the enhancements disabled.
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post #8 of 12
12/22/09 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by Nebby View Post
fenixdown110: the older version of CoreAVC already had CUDA acceleration
You're absolutely correct. I just had use it to sell it some more. haha

My quad core chokes on high bitrate h264 as well. CoreAVC is the only solution pretty much.
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post #9 of 12
12/22/09 at 7:18pm
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My quad core chokes on high bitrate h264 as well. CoreAVC is the only solution pretty much.
Glad to see I'm not the only one! FFMpeg isn't very multithreaded so having a couple extra cores doesn't do much. 45mb/s Bluray => FFMpeg = *BOOM*.

Yes, that's 1GB for 3 minutes of video. This is why I'm always out of hard disk space.
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post #10 of 12
12/22/09 at 7:27pm
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Exactly.

HDD's are cheap these days though. Under 100 bucks can get you 1 TB of space.
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post #11 of 12
12/22/09 at 7:35pm
And no backup. So multiply that by 2 and add $45 for a decent actively cooled enclosure.

I bought a 1TB HDD a year ago, filled that, and added my old 320GB as a second drive. Just yesterday I dug up an old 160GB drive since I had ~15GB free across both of the above...

My backup drive only has a 1.5TB capacity so I'm stuck. I wish I had my friend's 10TB storage server.
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post #12 of 12
12/23/09 at 8:54am
$5 for an upgrade really... it wasn't to long ago that I payed for the original 1.9.X version. Well I guess it's better then subscription software. I will not buy subscription software ever (such a fraud).
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