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One dumb question though: x64 is supposed to work also for 4.0.0.60? I'm asking this because the version supplied by Chainik only works with x86 for me ... when I try to launch in MPC-HC x64 I see that ffdshow raw is used but SVP is saying "No active playback" !?

Hi again,

Just a small update: I've used the 4.0.0.60 version provided by Chainik and everything is butter smooth now, GPU acceleration is ON in SVP, I can use more aggressive madVR options and ... no more crashes at all. It still show however "No active playback" for MPC-HC x64 although ffdshow raw is active but anyway I'm using it with the x86 version and everything seems ok now.

@MAG79 Looking forward also for an updated version with the bug fixed. Thanks for all your efforts!

Ok, I will give a try to 4.0.0.60.

Since I disabled GPU acceleration I've also noticed some "strange things": instead of helping madVR by releasing more resources it was exactly the opposite, I've noticed a lot of glitches / "shaking frames" with 1080p material until I've made some aggressive changes in madVR settings like:
- no dithering,
- check all boxes to the bottom in trade quality for performance,
- use old path D3D9 and backbuffers
- and even dropping Bicubic 75 AR for chroma scalling / every scalling is now forced to DXVA
(anyway even with all the above is a night and day difference between madVR and EVR-CP quality / my best guess being that by using DXVA scalling on Intel iGPU which is very similar to Lanczos 3 Taps the image gets more crisp which I kinda like it ...)

The thing gets more weird since GPU-Z only shows 24% GPU usage in windowed mode so I assume that in fullscreen mode it cannot go too much higher which mean there are still plenty of resources left for madVR but I cannot use them ... is like  SVP magic done only on my poor CPU (dual core Core I3 1.7 GHz) do not get along very well with madVR.

Anyway with all the above now everything is working smooth with 1 frame repeat / drop every 2.4 hrs in madVR stats.

Other strange stuff noticed is that during my mumbling with the settings in SVP I have noticed that it was sometimes interpolating 1080p23 movies at 64,1.. instead of 54,940. Only a PC restart is fixing the problem.

Ok, I will try tonight.

@Nintendo Maniac 64
Regarding AMD path we are already poluting this forum, I have plenty of arguments against it but this could be only my personal experience (it was my first HTPC attempt based on Asus E35M1-I Deluxe, passively cooled). Anyway we should debate on this topic in another place.

Anyway thanks again for all the hints given!

You mean the ones listed in SVP 4 menu? I cannot find anything similar in SVP 3.1.7 menu ... or am I not looking right?

Hi, I dropped AMD path long time ago after having some pretty bad experience with an E-350 Zacate as my main HTPC. Drivers were so bad that I could not believe what damage they were doing to image, simply the colors were crap ... not to mention the poor implementation of DXVA, high power consumption for my taste, etc. I've dropped it and went for Pentium G620 with Intel HD Graphics at that moment and ... finally the colors came to life. Never looked back to AMD ever since. Maybe in the meantime things have changed but I will stick to Intel for now on. I've purchased the NUC due to its form factor, at that moment there was no AMD Kabini or something similar with those dimensions. Now, indeed there are better alternatives ...

Anyway for my main HTPC I'm using a GTX 750 TI which at the moment is the best bang for buck in terms of consumption, low profile iterations and sufficient power for HTPC and light gaming. I'm running it together with a Core I5 3470S from a PicoPSU-160XT 192W and OCCT Power stress test put the system at max 138W at the wall measured with a watt meter.

To answer your question about 2C, the Core I3 4010u is only 1.70 GHz which is still far from the min. 2.00 GHz recommended, so no profile w/o GPU help is possible.

Hi again, no it was not possible. Only 1g profile with plenty of trade quality for perf in madVR ... but still visible improvement in image sharpness and colors vs EVR-CP.

Hi again,

I came back with another nasty issue. This time between Kodi DSPlayer fullscreen and SVP. I have already asked about it on Kodi forum but the only reply I got was to use my TV to interpolate frames ... meaning probably to not use SVP ... but never mind.

I have tested this on both my 2 HTPCs: the one with Core I5 3470s+GTX 750 TI and the NUC and the behavior is the same ...

What happens: each time I play a 1080p movie in Kodi on my 1080p TV 60Hz I see a strange zoom taking place immediately after SVP starts to interpolate frames up to 59.94 and madVR stats shows that image upscalling is taking place. Normally this should not happen, only Chroma should be upscalled as madVR shows in MPC-HC. But with Kodi, after the zoom happens I see image upscalling with Jinc for a 1080p movie on an 1920x1080 screen (!?) and of course dropped frames start to increase and CPU load is sky rocketing.

To my surprise immediately after I disable SVP, everything went butter smooth with Kodi + active madVR profile leading to 0 dropped frames. It seems that there is a problem when Kodi fullscreen interacts with SVP after the former starts to interpolates frames up to 59.94 (TV resolution is 60 and movies are all blu-ray rips at 23,976).

This behavior only appears with Kodi DSPlayer, in MPC-HC everything works as expected.

Hi, I'm aware of the scaling done in MPC-HC but my goal is still to keep madVR. Trust me, I've watched with EVR-CP + scaling Bicubic in MPC-HC and the colors and sharpness are nowhere near what I get with madVR. I did a print screen of a scene in Gravity from the beginning of the movie with both config and compared the images, it's like watching a different movie.

Regarding the TV, yes it's a poor 26 inch model so nothing to expect here even if it's branded Sony (2011 model by the way).

I've also ripped the Hobbit last part to an mkv (video and audio left untouched) and tested intensively with my current config. At 1g I still get spikes of 95-99% CPU usage with SVP at the beginning of the movie. In madVR I have done all the tweaks possible to increase performance (debanding off, dithering off, image doubling off, image up/down done in DXVA, checked most of the options in trade quality for performance including DXVA for chroma) and GPU load is now in the range 50-60%. What I have also noted is that if I pause the movie for couple of seconds the CPU load stabilizes between 67-75% with spikes around 80-85% and there is a very smooth experience thereafter. Is there any option to even downgrade 1g level in SVP a little bit so that the CPU does not record the spikes mentioned above? I know for sure that 2g is out of discussion at this moment. If I install back SVP 4 what would be the equivalent of 1g and would it be more easily to downgrade a little until i found the sweet spot?

Both in fact, no more stuttering but indeed SVP still at 1g. Maybe the max queues are a bit exagerated but I will try to reduce them step-by-step until I find the sweet spot. I still do not get how come this helped in my case. I could though understand that lowering the number of frames presented in advane was really helpfull.