If Movie and TV really is that much better, I'd really like to know what they are doing that is that much better then everyone else.
And even then, assuming that everyone is using DXVA hardware acceleration, I'd want to know just how it is MS is somehow managing to be that significantly better in it's video playback(when the software isn't really doing anything) then everyone else. The author needs to provide way more information about the app configurations for me to accept those results as valid.
None of my quick testing is particularly rigorous, but in the absence of more information, I'm fine with calling shenanigans on that PC World test. And anyway, the experience overall for me in Movies & TV is worse since no audio. It replaces the old DTS audio (actually it extends it) and its main goal is to allow a bit-to-bit representation of the original movies studio master soundtrack. BUT.I get no audio.since it's not even attempting to decode the audio stream(whereas MPC-HC handles the audio fine), I don't think that 0.5% is unaccounted for. DTS-HD Master Audio or just DTS-HD in many descriptions is a lossless audio codec by Digital Theater System. When I play it back with the Movies and TV app, the same file is coming in maybe 0.5% lower then MPC-HC for me. Now, if I disable all the hardware accelerated playback, then I can get it to go between 5-10%. I can't get my i5 to go over 2% CPU, and mostly it's at around 1.5%. I use MPC-HC as my player, and I have DXVA2 native mode hardware accelerated playback enabled. When you click on Source, the Source Selection will show you two options: choose a single video file or a folder with one or more files, which is a very considerate and user-friendly setting. The overlay filter requires exactly two video inputs, but none are specified, so the first two available video streams are used, those of A.avi and C.mkv.The output pad of the filter has no label and so is sent to the first output file to this, automatic selection of the video. Just for giggles, I just now tried playing back a 1920x800 H.264 video. Recoding DTS to AC3 in Handbrake is quite easy to acquire. A filtergraph is setup here using the -filtercomplex option and consists of a single video filter.
The fact that he didn't actually address what any of the settings for the video players are, makes me highly suspect of the test. It's the only explanation that makes sense for everything else to have that much worse battery life. In the absence of the author telling use the settings, my assumption is that he did not have VLC or MPC-HC or anything else configured to perform hardware accelerated video playback. I wonder maybe this thread belongs in AVClub.īut I bet everyone will be highly skeptical of that article just like me. mkv files on estimated remaining battery life. AC3 Filter is a popular free-open source software component that provides support for Dolby Digital and DTS audio formats on machines for which native.