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- Jul 7, 2010
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z390 Gaming X
- CPU
- i9-9900
- Graphics
- HD 5870
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The newest version of VLC (3.0.0) was released late last week and is supposed to have automatic HVEC hardware decoding. My Coffee Lake hackintosh (8700, i7 6-core, UHD 630 gpu) decodes UHD Blu-Ray ripped 4k/DTS-MA Blade Runner 2049 just fine; however, my 2017 MacBook Pro Kaby Lake (dual-core i7, HD 630) stutters with it. This file is in HVEC and comes in at 70 GB. Really frustrating because I was expecting the playback to be much better on the MacBook Pro than it is. Is there a software package or other way of verifying that VLC is using the gpu for video decoding? Or perhaps the lagging is because of the DTS-MA audio? It would be easy enough to rip with just the DTS 7.1 but I still would like to hear the experiences of others.
Has anyone tried one of the other Coffee Lake cpus (i3, i5) with 4k rips to see if it handles them well? I am planning to upgrade my home theater to a 4k projector, but without a suitable means of playback there's no need to do so. I don't want a dedicated graphics card but I also don't want to spend $380 on a cpu if I don't need to.
Has anyone tried one of the other Coffee Lake cpus (i3, i5) with 4k rips to see if it handles them well? I am planning to upgrade my home theater to a 4k projector, but without a suitable means of playback there's no need to do so. I don't want a dedicated graphics card but I also don't want to spend $380 on a cpu if I don't need to.