Hauppauge WinTV HD PVR (H.264) Ships, time for H.264 support

[Serra]

Now that the Hauppauge WinTV HD PVR (H.264) has shipped, it would be really good if H.264 support was available in SA.

[briands]

Of course I agree with this... but as an intermediate step how about it at least gracefully handle these files (ie... create a blank edl so dirmon will stop queuing these up)

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by briands

Of course I agree with this... but as an intermediate step how about it at least gracefully handle these files (ie... create a blank edl so dirmon will stop queuing these up)

I will release a version tonight that will do this.

Jere

[Serra]

Hopefully, H.264 support will not be too far behind. That would be a huge coup, as there is currently no support for it.

[Eckwell]

Just curious... How is development of Commercial Skipping for the HD-PVR H.264 files coming?

[sleonard]

Any word yet on this?

S

[CraziFuzzy]

I've got a question Jere, have you looked at all at just using a more generic decoding mechanism, that would end up supporting any file format? directshow maybe? It just seems that it would be the easiest mechanism, instead of coding a decoder yourself.

On that note, what DO you use for your current MPEG decoder currently?

[Jere_Jones]

h.264 is literally days away.

I have thought of bundling my decoder up into a DirectShow filter so that you could use it to watch the shows. That would relieve users of ShowAnalyzer from having to buy another decoder. I use PowerDVD 8's decoder now, but I'd like to see my decoder in action.

Jere

[sleonard]

That's real good news. Have you been able to reduce the CPU requirements. The last word I heard from you was in May and then it was maxing out a quad-core on a single recording. I'm hoping to anallyze 3 concurrent streams in real time on a core2 duo.

If you did make it into a DShow filter would it take advantage of the hw acceleration in the newer ATI and nVidia cards?

S

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by sleonard

That's real good news. Have you been able to reduce the CPU requirements. The last word I heard from you was in May and then it was maxing out a quad-core on a single recording.

That was on a completed recording going full bore. The goal was to max out every core so that the processing was done quicker.

Originally Posted by sleonard

I'm hoping to anallyze 3 concurrent streams in real time on a core2 duo.

3 concurrent live h.264 HD streams? I don't think the processor will be your bottleneck. Your poor hard drive.

Originally Posted by sleonard

If you did make it into a DShow filter would it take advantage of the hw acceleration in the newer ATI and nVidia cards?

Not likely, but it would make use of all the processors.

Jere