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H264 decoder performance comparison (Part 2)

Test details Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz, Windows 7 x64 Tests performed 2012-03-03 ffdshow was built by xvidvideo Benchmarking software: TimeMeasure filter from GraphStudioNext 0.4.9.0 Results are fps averaged over three trials. Test results Soul’d Out AMV [Anime, 480p, 8-bit, Main@5.1, 2.4Mbps] arcsoft 2.27 (2009-09-10) x32: 500.7 fps ffdshow 4364 x32 msvc: 605.7 fps ffdshow 4364 x32 icl12: 606.2 fps ffdshow 4364 x64 msvc: 520.8 fps mpc r4114 x32: 655.
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Subtitle renderer performance comparison

Date: 2011-11-20 Platform: Intel Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (stock) running Windows 7 x64 Engine: 32-bit Avisynth 2.58 (stock) build 2008-12-22 Script: BlankClip(length=30602, fps=29.97).FILTERNAME("flcl-ed.realfx.ass") Test: $ time avs2yuv video.avs -o NUL Results - MT Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Notes assrender 0.17 No 1m49.547s 0m47.508s 0m47.484s Ran fontconfig in first run assrender 0.24.1 No 1m26.377s 0m50.542s 0m50.951s Ran fontconfig in first run. Fastest overall vsfilter-threaded 2011-09-11 Yes 3m42.
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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.
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Thumbnails on Windows 7

A few things are required to get media thumbnails (e.g. flv, mkv, ogm) working in Windows 7. 1. Shell Extension Register the thumbnailing shell extension for every filetype you want to generate thumbnails for, by making a new .reg file with the following contents: (This shell extension comes with Windows Media Player 12, so make sure that’s installed.) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mkv\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" Run it. Then, rinse and repeat with .
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