H264 decoder performance comparison

Test details

• Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz, Windows 7 x64, all codecs in 32-bit mode
• Tests performed 2011-10-27
• ffdshow r3984 was built with vc10 by clsid
• ffdshow r3995 was built with icl12 by xvidvideo
• Benchmarking software: TimeMeasure filter from GraphStudio 0.3.2.0 Beta
• Results are fps averaged over three trials.

Test Results

Soul’d Out AMV [Anime, 480p, 8-bit, Main@5.1, 2.4Mbps]

• CoreAVC 3.01: 657.3
• ffdshow 3984: 603.9
• ffdshow 3995: 601.2
• LAVFvid 0.37: 690.0

King of Eden [Anime, 1080p, 8-bit, High@4.0, 4.6MBps]

• CoreAVC 3.01: 46.1 (!! and CUDA was in use too)
• CoreAVC 3.01: 187.7 (re-ran test in software-only mode)
• ffdshow 3995: 181.6
• LAVFvid 0.37: 176.6
• MPCVDec 3739: 69.0 (!! probably DXVA in use)
• MPCVDec 3739: 61.1 (re-ran test in software-only mode - still abysmal)

HSOTD OP [Anime, 1080p, 10-bit, High@5.1, 8.0Mbps]

• CoreAVC 3.01: 76.3
• ffdshow 3995: 85.8
• LAVFvid 0.37: 92.9