Windows XP h264 DXVA hardware decoding fix?

[vikking]

Hi,

I got my Fit-PC 2 yesterday and it's already running XP SP3. Now I ran into a pretty serious issue since I'm going to run my Fit-PC 2 as HTPC/file server, hooked up to our beamer. It is thus essential to play HD files.
The problem is that as soon as I want to playback a h264 video with DXVA hardware decoding using the video driver from the site, it gives a BSOD.
Is there a solution to this? I'm even open to changing the OS, as long as HD playback works.

Thanks in advance!
Victor

[irads]

If you don't have the fit-PC2 XP HD pre-installed with Cyberlink codecs then DXVA performance are not expected to be good.
The latest driver for Windows 7 - 5.0.0.1026 is an improvement. VAAPI in Ubuntu 9.10 is fine. XP with Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 SE still gives the best results.

[vikking]

Thanks for replying!

I just installed Windows 7 and as you said, DXVA works here. And since it runs remarkably well (with Aero disabled), I'm going to use that. The Intel drivers + MPC-HC do the job very good (at not too high resolutions)

Fit-PC2 is an awesome little box