HD Video on ATI

Funerall · January 1st, 2009, 05:03 PM

Hello my friends. I have a HD 3850 PCI-e x16 graphic card. It supports HD video playback. But I don't know how. Which program I should use to play HD video without using CPU?

**Regeneration** · January 1st, 2009, 05:07 PM

Should be automatic, but you can make sure by snooping around your media player/decoder settings.

Zamoldac · January 1st, 2009, 06:43 PM

try vlc player it should do the trick

Funerall · January 1st, 2009, 09:09 PM

I tried a video clip (which is 1920*1080) but it uses CPU, not GPU. I think this means it's not automatic...

I'll try VLC Player tomorrow. But what about PowerDVD? Does it use GPU?

Suiseiseki · January 1st, 2009, 09:33 PM

hmm this does seem interesting i have a 4870

Using Zoom Player

when i play a HD video i get 20% cpu usage on a dual core

and in CCC it shows only 3% gpu usage when running the video

Using VLC

I get 22% cpu usage
and 0% gpu usage

**Regeneration** · January 1st, 2009, 10:05 PM

PowerDVD supports GPU decoding but make sure to set it up inside the options.

IModIntel · January 1st, 2009, 10:08 PM

It was absolutely automatic on mine using Cyberlink program and movie. I have a HD3850 as well.

Suiseiseki · January 1st, 2009, 11:00 PM

does it only work for dvd/blu ray

or will it do it for video files as well?

IModIntel · January 2nd, 2009, 03:51 AM

It worked with a Blu ray, but I didn't try the other things you mentioned so I don'T know too much about that.

Funerall · January 2nd, 2009, 10:55 PM

May I give a try on PowerDVD...

I tried Media Player Classic but uses nearly %60 CPU and %1 GPU...

BtW: Thanks to you my friends...