The Five Star Stories [BD,1080p] [A-FanRips]  

video shows a huge amount of artifacts using coreavc, and without coreavc, the video has a hard time catching up with the audio. tried accelerating it with dxva in mpc-hc, didn't work.

Of your comment is not true at all, because NOT the encode sucks, but it is CoreAVC which is broken. So, it would be more benefical if you were to complain to the developers of CoreAVC to hurry up with a fix. Though, I don't blame you for not knowing this.



Playing their latest release 1080p Ponyo, I see these artefacts with CoreAVC: http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1508/ponyoonthecliffbythesea.png

So even if THORA says so on their website, it doesn't mean it's up to date with their latest encodes.
So yeah, as long as CoreAVC ain't fixed you have to use another decoder that works, or use CoreAVC in combination with CUDA if you have an nVidia 8400 card or higher.

I am using Core AVC with CUDA ( SLI 8800 / Dualcore AMD X2 ) and it shows artifacts.
So it doesn't matter if you use Core AVC with or without CUDA.

I'm no expert on this : But I suppose as said; there's a bug in Core AVC which is triggered due to some encoder setting being used here ( as _every other_ 720P or 1080P file I have doesn't show this) you can also argue that the encoder should have left out setting X to make it Core AVC compatible if this is known in the encoder world.

But I don't care too much about above discussion. All I care about is does the 1080P rip add to my collection or not.
I have the ADV DVD already and if I compare the two with paused screens; than the difference isn't earth shattering for me to worry about Core AVC's bug.

It does matter if you use CUDA or not, there have been a lot of reports where CUDA worked fine with encodes that used that feature. Besides that, you are probably seeing these artefacts because the g80 chip doesn't have purevideo decoder 2, they don't have the circuitry required for coreavc's cuda option. In any case, CoreAVC 2.0 is out now which should hopefully fix all problems.

About the difference, I really find it hard to believe that you don't find the difference earth shattering enough, come one, the r1 disc looks terrible. I'll cry if you say you're serious.   :'-(
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3712/11921.png
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3686/60805525.png

CUDA support has nothing to do with which purevideo decoder you use, the idea behind CUDA is that it provides developers a base with which to create applications that make use of the paralell processing capabilities of your GPU for optimised tasks (most notably dealing with image processing in one way or another)  not the pure video engine.  Pure video is a completely seperate element and it's acceleration isnt even used when using other decoders such as CORE AVC.  CUDA support requires first of all a CUDA enabled piece of software (obviously) and for hardware a GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB of local graphics memory. Anything less than a series 8 (i.e 7800 GTX, 6600 Ultra) isn't supported. (source: nvidia.com, and the developer PDF)



LOL. ok. That's some difference on the screenshots. I only used the first 1 minute as comparison (the prologue battlefield part where there was alot of blurrig going on from the "heat" and the countdown timer on the fatima capsule which was mostly. Well black) - that wasn't a proper comparison. I suppose I was lazy. Guess i'll be keeping the file after all haha !

I just solved my artifact issue too. I still have CORE AVC 1.95. I went into configuration ticked off "PREFER CUDA" hit apply, then ticked it on again and hit apply and close. That solved it.  
I installed new Nvidia drivers last week; so that might have turned CUDA acceleration off; whilst I knew for sure i had turned it on when I installed Windows 7 a few weeks ago.  I like how Core AVC 2.00 's changelog has this in it : ADD: Initial support for Windows 7
Whilst it was already working fine in the version prior to 1.95 on the Win 7 RC =)  Complete changelog can be found here: http://corecodec.com/products/coreavc/changelog

Despite having solved it by re-enabling CUDA; it still bothered me not knowing what it was (i mean this was the only 1080P MKV that had the issue out of 100's)  Having googled it. This is what the problem was:  1.9.5 had artifacts when it encountered videos encoded w/ newer x264 versions (that use weight-p). It happened only when software mode was used (=NOT CUDA) / FFDSHOW supposedly also had issues with newer x264 versions/settings. It is resolved in Core AVC 2.00 when using software mode.

Yes, CUDA 1.0 apps will certainly run on all 8800 cards, though I don't know which you have, but people may have issues if they're running with a  8800 GTS (320/640MB with 96 shader units), GTX and Ultra because they have computing capabilities at level 1.0 and don't have Atomic functions that are available in computing capability 1.1 which CUDA 2.0 uses. The 8800 cards which use G92 do have support for these functions.

In any case, at first it appeared you were using CUDA and getting these artefacts, so I made the assumption that you had one of those cards with an older core causing the artefacts. But good to see that you found out it wasn't enabled and fixed it with re-enabling it.

It may still be a good idea to upgrade to 2.0 though, as now video files with the in x264 maximum amount of reference frames (16) also work, some use that to maximise their settings, others use it just to annoy people using CUDA.

This movie was so good looking, I almost didn't believe it.  Why can't they make movies like this anymore?

Thanks for the upload

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So, I saw in one comment someone mentioned "Plex" for 1080 on Mac and I found it, and it works~! It's a little bit jumpy on loooong pans but other than that it seems fine~

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I can't get it to open! I click on it, MPlayer tries and and tries to open it and nothing happens. VLC just shuts down immediately if I try to open it. QuickTime just says "Loading Movie..." and nothing happens.

I'm on a Mac. What do I need to do to play this? ^^ Is it possible to play this? Thank you to anyone who can help

I will say the long hair/sexuality of the movie confused me a little, thought not to the point of not enjoying the movie though

very good movie ^_^

I'm kinda new here, so... is there anyone who can tell me if there's a way to get this to DL faster? I'm at 1.6% after an  hour...

Thank you very much for this!  What a brilliant anime, coming from an era of art and design right before the digital world took over.  This is a masterpiece!  I had that thin black DVD with the cut-out, but I lost it in a move and I can't help but want to watch it again~

Lightsabers?  Each your heart out Turkeyneck!  These mecha have light pillars!  haha

I wish they'd made a sequel~

Just watched this for the first time and it was amazing! I love this style to it very much. The quality was get! I had no problem whatsoever. I know this was just the very beginning of the story and there are a lot more chapters left in the manga books. I enjoyed this very much and if anyone has things similar to this I would love to take some others.