Hi,
I have some 1080p movies with DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration). Will they play fine on the WD TV 2nd gen or Live?
Thanks
file1854 wrote:
Hi,
I have some 1080p movies with DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration). Will they play fine on the WD TV 2nd gen or Live?
Thanks
Are you sure that you have videos with DXVA.
As far as I can see DXVA is something which allows video decoding to be hardware accelerated as long as the video is compliant. Obviously the WDTV is designed to play HD material and does not need this form of hardware acceleration.
I’m guessing these movies are DXVA “compatible” then. So they should play fine right?
That depends on the container and codecs.
If you download MediaInfo and post the output for one of your files here, we can more accurately determine whether the files will (or should) play fine.
Welcome to the forums! :)
Alright, thank you
And for the DTS 5.1, I think I will need an audio receiver to decode it.
Container: MKV
Format: x264
Size: 8.57 GiB
Length: 1h 47mn
Resolution: 1920*800 (1080p)
Video Bitrate: 9635 Kbps
Source Media: Blu-Ray
Audio Format: DTS
Audio Channels: 5.1
Audio Bitrate: 1536
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate : 9 634 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 9 859 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.400
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.262
Stream size : 7.25 GiB (85%)
Title : x264 - 2 passes @ 60% of the original bitrate
Writing library : x264 core 79 r1352 d487de4
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=64 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=2 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=0 / rc=2pass / mbtree=0 / bitrate=9859 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=38000 / vbv_bufsize=30000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.80
Language : English
Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 47mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 24 bits
Stream size : 1.14 GiB (13%)
Title : DTS - 1536 kbit/sec
Language : English
Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : English
Looks like a fairly standard MKV with supported codecs
Should play back fine when connected direct (USB on Gen2 & Live) or via network (wired on Live).
There’s always an element of doubt with wi-fi but that’s only a factor if you choose the Live (Gen2 has no networking ability when using official firmware). Having said that, the bit-rate is less than 10mbps so should (in theory) play fine even on a wireless ‘G’ network.
Regarding DTS, yes, you’ll need a receiver to decode DTS and get the full 5.1 via HDMI or Optical cable.
However, if you select Audio Output: Stereo in Settings > Audio/Video, the Live will downmix it to stereo for you and it’ll play back fine on your TV.
If in future you purchase a suitable audio receiver, you can enable Digital Audio output and get the full 5.1 experience. :)
Awesome, thanks alot for your answers
DXVA is a hardware term, has NOTHING to do with the files you have. It is some software inside your PC and video card and it is only for Windows operating systems (DirectX is part of Windows). Simple google will show this.
WDTV Live is not a Windows machine, so this term would have nothing to do with it.
