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TUTORIAL: For getting better and boosted sound for Movies without distortion (Make Laptops Louder)!!!!

The Good:

1) Better Loud non distorted movie playback sound experiece in you laptop

2) Not amplyfing everything to avoid distortion

3) better sound like you here the songs in your laptops

The Bad :

Nothing..

TUTORIAL: Make movies Louder (songs arealready loud in windows media player)

1) Download and install Zoomplayer

2) Download and Install ffdshow decoder

3) In advanced settings in smartplay in audio and video decoders configure aac,ac3,lpcm,dts,dts in container and mp3 to ffdshow audio decoder

4)while playing a video fdshow audio icon appears in taskbar configure it as follows

5) In the volume tab enable volume and enable normalisation in it make Max amplification to 250%

(the max amplification value you may change it from 200 to 350 based on the sound of movies)

6)Enable Mixer and in mixer enable normalisation matrixand select the output speaker configaration correctly 2/0/2 quadro for lenovo y510/530

7)enable resample then in resample  enable resample to 48000 hz,liavcodec high quality, if lower than

8)In zoom player enable equalizer make preamp the first one a little higher( little means first possible step only in mp3 encoded movies and further more in ac3 encoded movies)

Thank you……………..

For decoding divx,xvid etc ffdshow video decoder is better if you care about quality ou can enable it in smartplay tab

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

October 26, 2008 Posted by sekharpadikkal | Computer tips | | No Comments Yet

TUTORIAL: Enabling purevideo HD Hardware Acceleration for Nvidia 8(including 8400mgs),9,GTX series to acheive only 15%-20% cpu usage for 1080p Video (For Desktops and Laptops)

The Good:

1) only 10 – 20 % cpu is used

2) ultra smooth playback even in powersaver mode

3) Utilisation of what we have

4) More battery life and also you can multi task while playing hd

5) Cpu will run cooler

6) Better Video(image) Quality than Software Decoders

Hey Nvidia Users We have a video processor in our GPU .. Then why should we use CPU?

The Bad :

1)External Subtitles Wont Work……. (DirectVobSub Will break the Hardware acceleration)

Tutorial: FOR H.264/avc/Blueray/HD DVD

1) Update The Driver of your Nvidia 8(including 8400 m gs),9,GTX series and above to the latest WHQL driver from NVIDIA Support Site..  Now the latest is 185.85…… For Desktops and notebooks..

2)Download power dvd ultra version 8

(only powerdvd gives effecient hardware acceleration compared to intervideo windvd and arcsoft total theatre  and even Media player Classic Home Cinema)

3) In powerdvd video configaration “Enable hardware acceleration (Nvidia purevideo)”

4) Download Zoom player version 6 Max

5) In advanced options in playback take smartplay

6)In Audio and video decoders tab   in H.264 click configure and select “Cyberlink h.264/avc decoder”

7) In advanced options select video and subtitles the make the renderer to ” EVR”

8) Open a 1080p video in zoomplayer

9) right click on any part of the video then select filter properties the select cyberlink h.264/avc decoder then ensure whether “use dxVa is enabled if not the enable it”

10) From the next time onwards when you play HD 1080p in zoom player it will use only 10 % to 20 % cpu (Otherwise 60% to 90 %)

11) Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

Note : You should Disable External Subtitles When using Hardware Acceleration/PureVideo HD (An easy solution is renaming the .srt file to .sr. TO reenable subtitles rename the .sr back to .srt

TUTORIAL : FOR VC1 /wmv HD/Blueray

note: VC 1 /wmv hd is extremely cpu intensive and the hardware acceleraton is not that efficient  cpu will be around 50 – 60 %

1)  Just play in windows media player or in the same zoomplayer

Note : You should Disable External Subtitles When using Hardware Acceleration/PureVideo HD (An easy solution is renaming the .srt file to .sr. TO reenable subtitles rename the .sr back to .srt

TUTORIAL : FOR MPEG 2 HD/SD/DVD/HD DVD/BLUERAY

1) In zoom player In advanced options in playback take smartplay In Audio and video decoders tab   in Mpeg2 video and Mpeg 2 transport video click configure and select “Cyberlink Video/SP decoder V8+”

2) In DVD option select decoder to cyberlink powerdvd

3) Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note:  You should Disable External Subtitles When using Hardware Acceleration/PureVideo HD (An easy solution is renaming the .srt file to .sr. TO reenable subtitles rename the .sr back to .srt

October 26, 2008 Posted by sekharpadikkal | Computer tips | | No Comments Yet