No DXVA in Vista

[DharmaBummed69]

Neither of my cards,ATI Radeon HD 5770 or Geforce 8500GT have DXVA available in DVDFab on Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 but both have it on XP Pro 32-bit SP3. Is DXVA not available in Vista?

[Leeb18509]

I have an ATI 5850 and it seems to work in Win 7 x64. It's strange that it wouldn't work in Vista. Have you tried running the Vista install in "compatibility mode" for XP?

[Papajo]

I have the XFX Radeon HD 5770 card, it supports DXVA, my OS is windows 7 64 bit.



System::..
Case: Thermailtake V9 black edition
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
CPU: Intel E7500 (2.93 Ghz) (OC 3.95 Ghz)
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5770
Ram: 8 Gb OCZ Gold PC2 8500 DDR2 1066MHz
PSU: Corsair 650 watt
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
C: VelociRaptor 300GB
E: LG CH08LS10 BluRay Player
F: Pioneer BDR205 BluRay Burner
Monitor Acer H233H

[signals]

Check the driver for the card, make sure it's the latest.

[DharmaBummed69]

I'm using Catalyst 10.4 for Vista and XP. Using Forceware 197.45 on Vista and XP. Not that DXVA makes much differece since it only can be used to decode and not encode. The Hurt Locker took 17h+ using DXVA to decode and software to encode in XP compared to about 9h+ with CUDA and software. I thought I would ask since in the GPU Acceleration list those with DXVA with thier Raedon HD's either had Windows 7 or didn't say and I didn't see anybody on the list with working DXVA that had Vista.

[DharmaBummed69]

I'm thinking it might be an issue with Vista and DVDFab. Compressing Weeds S3 D1 on Vista with CoreAVC and CUDA+software and at 15H+ with 62% completed. i'm going to try the second disc on the XP rig with my extra 8500GT to see if that makes a difference

[DharmaBummed69]

OK so Weeds S3 D1 finally finished on Vista. It took about 23 h with CoreAVC and Cuda enabled for a E7500Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz KFA2 8500GT and 4 GB of DDR2 1066mHz RAM. Meanwhile on the computer with XP with the XFX Silent Cooling series 8500GT with a E2180 dual core 2.0 GHz processor overclocked to 2.5Ghz and DDR2 667mHz downclocked to 500mHz RAM Disc 2 of Weeds took 9h 35m. I'm going to switch discs on the computers and recode again to see if I get similar results from different discs on the same computers. I'll report back the results after I'm done. I'm a bit puzzled because so far I'm getting 2x the time on Vista with similar specs on the computers. The only major differences are Vista vs. XP and Gigabyte vs. Asus motherboard/chipsets.

Papajo what's your Full Disc BD50-BD25 time. We have similar specs. I have half the RAM and a different brand motherboard and Vista. We should be getting generally around the same encode time when I use the HD 5770 instead of the 8500GT.

[Papajo]

To backup LiveFree or Die Hard using BD50 to BD25 Main Movie mode with just DTS HR-MSTR audio track it takes a total of 4 hours writeing to a Verbatim BD-RE disc, total time would be less if I wrore to a BD-R disc.

Copying to the temp folder I get a 250mb throughput average This is a 2h 10min. movie so it takes time for the compression. Short movies like Rambo, one and a half hours can be done in 45 minutes total, it requires no compression.

Case: Thermailtake V9 black edition
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
CPU: Intel E7500 (2.93 Ghz) (OC 3.95 Ghz)
Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5770
Ram: 8 Gb OCZ Gold PC2 8500 DDR2 1066MHz
PSU: Corsair 650 watt
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit home premium
C: VelociRaptor 300GB
E: LG CH08LS10 BluRay Player
F: Pioneer BDR205 BluRay Burner
Monitor Acer H233H

[Papajo]

I reinstalled mt BFG GeForce 9800Gt card and ran the same task, it took 3hrs, seems CUDA won out.

[DharmaBummed69]

Kinda sucks buying a new $100+ video card and having to put the old one back in because it works better with 1 program huh?

That gripe being made. I'm definitley seeing a significant time difference between movies in Vista and movies in XP. Weeds S3 D1 took 23 hours to compress in Vista. Same disc on XP took 11 hours. Weeds S3 D2 took 9 hours on XP. Same disc 16 hours estimated as currently it's only 69% done at 10.5 hours in. Almost 2x the for the same discs between Vista and XP. In the words of Keenan Thompson. OOOOOEEEEE Whaddup wit that? What's up with that? OOOEEEEWhat's uuuuuup with that?

Anyway it looks like my secondary computer with be the compressing work horse as I can complete 2 movies in XP in the time it takes 1 on Vista. Average encode rate on Vista is between .50-.80 and on XP rate is 1.00MB-1.40MB it does drop down sometimes especially near the end of a file but it always goes back up to over 1.00MB with a few minutes.