Some additional test results. When I said that under 4K desktop resolutions there is no video playback, this was true for the classic mode UI in powerdvd where playback results in a black screen. What I've since discovered, and I dont know if this beta only does this or if your prior production release does it as well, is that in cinema mode 4K desktop resolution most video will playback and display correct. So thats 1920x1080 bluray discs being upscaled etcetc to 2160P.
I monitored the telemetry during playback of some bluray disk content encoded content in AVC. With no movie enhancement, the cpu used about 3% and I could see the gpus memory controller, video engine etcetc being used. Then I changed the movie enhancement setting to strongest, and with the same bluray disc I was only peaking at 10% CPU utilisation and 40% GPU utilisation. So for now Ill can atleast playback blurays in 4k upscaling using the cinema mode UI layout of powerdvd.
I tried some native 4K HEVC, both my 8 bit colour main profile 60 FPS HEVC sample failed to play, and my 10 bit colour main profile 10 HEVC 60 FPS sample failed to play. None of this was GPU accelerated and the audio was a stuttering and skipping mess with the CPU being overloaded. Your going to need to support main 10 profile because thats what the enhanced bluray standard involves.
So the defects I see now are:
- In classic UI mode, 2160P desktop resolutions wont playback video - results in a black screen. Cinema mode UI will playback OK most video types.
- HEVC playback is not GPU accelerated even when using GPUs like the GTX 960 that does support full hardware decode. Which effectively means the video wont play cos the CPU cant handle 2160P 60 FPS HEVC high bitrate.
- 10 bit colour HEVC main 10 profile isnt played back. Main 10 HEVC 2160P 60 FPS can be played back under full hardware decode GPU acceleration on a gtx 960 without stuttering totally smooth using MPC-HC x64 with copyback DVVA2 LAV filters
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