4K blues

[486]

Finalized 4K setup, 4K TV with HDMI 2.0a, 4K GPU with HDMI 2.0b in 4GB MPC box with dual-core x64 CPU. So, got my hands on 4K content in HEVC/x265.
Awesome picture! Win10 Films & TV plays it awesome utilizing GPU.

Hurdle numero uno: ...but without sound. Same goes for Windows Media Player. The reason: Microsoft provides no codecs for DTS audio. DTS is 20 year old tech, still not supported by Microsoft.

Who needs Microsoft, right?
Fired up good old VLC. There is some sound coming out of speakers now! Yey!

Hurdle numero dos: Unfortunately VLC x64 CPU encoding is not sufficient to keep up with 4K framerate. GPU encoding is buggy, pixelates picture.

Who needs french software, right?
Downloaded CCCP/KLite with MPC-HC x64 enclosed. Audio is on! Open source beats Microsoft into pulp audio-wise!

Hurdle numero tres: Though MPC-HC x64 plays 4K with CPU encoding better than VLC x64, but it is still unwatchable. Feels like 16 frames per second is tops for CPU encoding. Switched on GPU encoding. Well, tried to switch it on. Confirmed, it is not turning on at all on Nvidia GPU (Pascal), AMD GPU (Polaris) or Intel (HD Graphics). So, open source software supports all GPUs except for Nvidia, AMD and Intel, I guess. Yeah, but there are no other GPUs out there. Sad.

Well, so it seems like you either watch 4K movie mute, or just listen to the soundtrack. Today I will write a script to start movie simultaneously in WMP (for video) and MPC-HC x64 (for audio).

:angry2:

 

[crazyea]

AC3Filter

 

[Arinoth]

Have you tried Kodi for your movie playback? I think they should be supporting 4k content by now, not sure how well it will work, it's only a software install away. Either Kodi on Linux, Kodi on Windows?

 

[BrainEater]

I feel for yah bud !

I'm just gearing up for 4k video / editing.....not even into the TeeVee's yet.

Big bucks for 'mebbie'.

:blarg:

 

[ShinraCorp]

Guess it's a good thing I waited out on 4k since it sounds like a broken mess just to get those videos to work fine lol.

(That and I don't have the cash to afford one.)

 

[486]

Bringing Denon receiver into the game, I will reroute outputs. Lets see if that helps.

 

[Arinoth]

Did you ever end up trying Kodi? I'd like to know how far along their support and progress is if/whenever I choose to go 4k.

 

[486]

I have Kodi on BeeBox. All Kodi plugins are working intermittently, so it is tough to enjoy anything meaningful on it.

 

[486]

Once I figure it out, I will share the experience and tricks.

 

[486]

Ok, now everything works good.

The solution: remove all codec packs and powerDVD.
I have uninstalled all codec packs and powerDVD from HTPC, installed standalone MPC-HC.
Bam, it is working like a charm, CPU at 10% playing 4K HEVC 10-bit. Yay!