Anyone know when Core AVC will be for sale again?

[leebo]

There web site just says the store will be back soon!

[Baldrick]

I would try the corecodec forum...but it looks like they don't know either. http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=207.0

Hopefully will ffdshow's avc decoder be as good as coreavc...or maybe it is? I haven't tested the latest versions.

[leebo]

Thanks Baldrick. People on AVS seem to think the latest version of core is better. I haven't tried either yet. I'd rather not load my htpc up with unecessary codecs.

[Soopafresh]

Have you seen the latest Quicktime alternative ?

[j4gg3rr]

CoreAVC is a little less CPU usage(negligable).
ffdshow has all its filters available to tweak the picture.

[celtic_druid]

On a SMP system the difference should be more than negligible. There was a patch to make libavcodec decoding multithreaded, but as I understand it, it only worked for video encoded with multiple slices. Something which x264 dropped some time back.

[j4gg3rr]

Would a to be released yet 2.0 GHz AMD Barcelona quad core run ffdshow h.264 slighty slower than my ancient 2800xp(2.09GHZ) single core?
And nearly 4 times faster with CoreAVC?

[celtic_druid]

Well there are way more factors than just clock speed, however you are right about ffdshow basically using one core where as CoreAVC should be able to spread the load.

[j4gg3rr]

Hope DVD is around for a long time yet. Iv'e spent enough $$$ on PC's this century for now.

http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=89.0