How to enable MPEG2 acceleration in preview

brightness wrote on 8/25/2006, 8:23 AM

I'm using Vegas Studio 6 Platinum for editing HD video. The playback in preview has much much lower frame rate than what Windows Media Player can do with the same video stream. What gives? The playback of HD video on the hard drive dowloaded from camera is smooth in Windows Media Player 9, probably due to hardware MPEG2 decoding provided by the video card (just normal desktop video card, not special MPEG encoder/decoder card). Any chance that I can get Vegas to make use of the basic decoding function available in the normal mpeg-2 capable video card? (a lowly Radeon X200, BTW). I'm a bit nonplused looking at 100% CPU load with jumpy frames in Vegas preview but smooth playback with 60% CPU load in WMP, a piece of free software.

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Chienworks wrote on 8/25/2006, 5:41 PM

Nope. Not in any version of Vegas released to date anyway.

brightness wrote on 8/26/2006, 1:54 AM

How much raw processor power is then need to playback with 30fps? The AMD64 3000+ that I have been running on over the past year or so is obviously not even close. I know hard drive is not the problem, nor is the memory bandwidh . . . would Core2Duo 6300/6400 overclocked to perhaps 2.5-2.8GHz be enough? How do did people edit those things in Vegas before last month? ;-)

farss wrote on 8/26/2006, 2:18 AM

Use the Cineform DI!

But I recall someone here saying they'd got the mpeg-2 decoders built into the graphics card to work with Vegas's secondary monitor. I don't think it'll work with the primary preview though.