madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by ryrynz

Right now you'd be be better served by a 1080/Ti for madVR mostly due to the premium of the unused (for madVR) Tensor cores, otherwise if using it for gaming as well RTX makes some sense.

Originally Posted by nevcairiel

You can't exactly buy a 1080/Ti anymore (at least around here), other then super expensive or used. And some people like their warranty.

New 2070s are cheaper then new 1080s here, nevermind 1080 Tis (in which case 2080s are also cheaper).

Exactly what Nev said. Not to mention those tensor cores COULD have some usefulness in the future. And yes, I would use it for gaming, as well. Completely moot point right now anyway as I don't have the money but it's on the top of the list when I do.

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by madjock

It is nothing fancy at all
https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/65PUS6...ilight-3-sided

I did think I would be limited with chroma, but was a little naive about how much the tone mapping would hammer my 1050 GTX, it was a case of I could get better chroma settings and use passthrough, but was unsure what I would achieve by disabling the trade options comparable to passthrough, as it classed it as dumb on the OSD when you do this with the options ticked, and that used to be options in older madVRs.

IMO you're better off with passthrough if you enable dumb tonemapping in the trade performance options.

[zapatista]

Hi Madshi,

thank you for your great program, it really improves the video quality on my 1080p display compared to other pc video players, or when using a stand alone bluray player (assuming the source video file is of good quality)

Q1) is there a way i can set my display max nits in madvr ?

i am using madvr on my win 8.1 pc to play some 4k hevc h265 rec2020 video files, which i output over hdmi to my 1080 display (which is accepting 1080p 12 bit 4.4.4 RGB full) .
in madvr settings i am using DXVA2 for down-scaling wich gives me a gpu load of 72% and uses 90% of my 3gb vram (the other custom pixel shader settings like SSIM cause a significant rate of frames being dropped and i get micro stutters)

some of the 4k video files are HDR (which i know is not part of the SDR specs), but my 1080 tv display has a spec of 380 nits (compared to most older 1080 displays only going up to 150 nits usually)

i know that some of the higher end stand alone 4k bluray players (like the samsung or panasonic) allow you to select a max nits setting when outputting the 4k HDR video to 1080 (for ex on the samsung player i would have been able to set it to 350 or 400 nits iirc)

can i similarly set a max nits setting in madvr for my 1080p downconversion output ? (i remember discussion about this taking place in the madvr forum, but cant find the settings)

note: i am aware most HDR movies can range from 500 to 1000 nits (or even higher w dolby vision ?), but my display relatively low 350 nits ability would be nice to be able to use for higher luminance detail available from some of these HDR source files

Q2) is there a simple way i can save my preferred presets for different resolution video files that i might be playing ? (eg 720p, 1080p, 2160 4k files etc)
- for my pc hardware i can use higher quality settings for 720p and 1080p files, but for 4k files i can only just play them and have to dial several settings down

Q3) when playing 4k files (with my limited settings ) my GPU reports 72 or 75% GPU load, and 93 % vram used for ex, but my i7 cpu is only at 20 or 25% load.
- is there a way i can offload some of the video tasks more to the CPU and then be able to enhance other settings in madvr that are GPU load dependent ?
i have tried different "video decoder" selections in mpc-hc, but it doesnt seem to alter this (am using dxva2-copyback as this was suggested by you in an earlier setup guide iirc)

pc specs: win 8.1 (64 bit) w most recent video drivers and updates, i7 4770k, 32 gb ram, 1060 3gb GPU
using mpc-hc 6.3 with madvr latest version

[madjock]

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

IMO you're better off with passthrough if you enable dumb tonemapping in the trade performance options.

Yes I think I have to really.

One more thing and I am unsure if there is an issue with madVR and my TV. The one easy thing I seem to have is NV HDR is ativated quite easily, which is a blessing on having read back over multiple threads on it not for some people due to drivers et al.

But if I select the OSD for the TV once activated, sometimes it says BT 2020 and SMTPE 2084, but mostly only if I change a setting in the settings side of the TV. The majority of the time it will say RGB for colour space and 2160p24, but sometimes it will say 2160p24SMTPE 2084 for video and BT.2020 for colour space.

it looks to be getting the right information from looking at the madVR OSD, so is this an issue with my TV not being very clever and I can just ignore it, or do I need to mess with drivers to get this correct information.

[madjock]

Originally Posted by zapatista

Hi Madshi,

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php...942#pid2238942

Have a look at this guide for the presets, under profiles.

Also the target peak nits under HDR, but would assume you have seen this ?

[border.community]

Originally Posted by Warner306

If you use the display mode switcher in MPC-HC, you can add an audio delay that only applies to 23-24 Hz.

Thanks Warner, that's what I ended up doing in LAV settings. For some reason I thought a perfect custom timing in madvr would naturally fix that delay.

[SamuriHL]

Originally Posted by madjock

Yes I think I have to really.

One more thing and I am unsure if there is an issue with madVR and my TV. The one easy thing I seem to have is NV HDR is ativated quite easily, which is a blessing on having read back over multiple threads on it not for some people due to drivers et al.

But if I select the OSD for the TV once activated, sometimes it says BT 2020 and SMTPE 2084, but mostly only if I change a setting in the settings side of the TV. The majority of the time it will say RGB for colour space and 2160p24, but sometimes it will say 2160p24SMTPE 2084 for video and BT.2020 for colour space.

it looks to be getting the right information from looking at the madVR OSD, so is this an issue with my TV not being very clever and I can just ignore it, or do I need to mess with drivers to get this correct information.

Couldn't tell you on that one. For HDR content, it should be BT.2020 unless you have madvr tonemap and convert it to rec.709. But if you're doing passthrough, it should be showing at BT.2020. RGB is what madvr will output to. I don't know how you have your GPU driver set, but, it should also be set to RGB, as well, to avoid unnecessary conversions.

[Damien147]

Which one of these three gpu load readings I can trust?Gpuz gpu load goes up and down as you see and the other two are stable.

[el Filou]

Originally Posted by madjock

I was thinking of going down the Windows 8.1 route, but that is a bit of a step back in some respects, and unsure what I would gain.

Performance wise, nothing.

Originally Posted by madjock

My problem just now is a new 4K TV, and working with only a 2GB 1050 card

The only way to achieve some kind of smooth playback with 4K and 2 GB VRAM is to lower the render and present queues until you're below the VRAM limit. Try something like present queue 3 or 4, render queue 5 or 6. If you're using DXVA/D3D11 native mode for the decoder, also lower the decoding queue to 7 or 8, as those modes use more VRAM too.

[Asmodian]

Originally Posted by Damien147

Which one of these three gpu load readings I can trust?Gpuz gpu load goes up and down as you see and the other two are stable.

madVR load is odd, once the buffer is full it runs as fast as possible for one frame and then waits for the next frame. This causes aliasing artifacts that change with the polling rate which can make it look like the load is fluctuating a lot.

[Damien147]

All three were different and got confused.
I guess the answer is that you can't measure it in % accurately then.I'll measure it in ''dropped frames''
Thanks.

[Asmodian]

If you set the polling rate really fast you can get a better idea of the real load, something like 100 ms.

[Damien147]

I see.No big deal,just curious because previous gpu years ago was giving me more stable readings without spikes in gpu z.Thanks again.

[nevcairiel]

Depending on how the workload is structured, you would want an average load that takes into account bursts and idle periods. GPU-Z seems to not do that. Spiky 0/100 graphs are not very useful.

madVR is rather special in how it works load-wise, because it has practically no CPU limit, so when it can work it'll work 100%, but it has a hard frame rate limit, so it doesn't have endless work - ie. very spiky behavior. An ordinary 3D renderer would be CPU limited and/or capable of rendering an unlimited amount of frames, so it would either always cap the GPU, or be limited consistently by the CPU, but not simply by "time".

[Damien147]

Ok,I'll stay with ''no dropped frames,all good''.Thank you too.

[ryrynz]

Originally Posted by chros

Definitely not, although I haven't seen your TV. Use passthrough then.

"Definitely not" but I don't really know for sure. Lol.

If configured right I would expect better results but a 1060/1070/2060 would really help a lot.

[madjock]

Originally Posted by ryrynz

"Definitely not" but I don't really know for sure. Lol.

If configured right I would expect better results but a 1060/1070/2060 would really help a lot.

Haha, well I have mostly given up after trying all the different options, I could never really get much below 36ms at a base level, with obvious spiking and jumps into stutter levels or having it at dumb.

Just can't justify a Graphics Card more expensive than the TV I just got, so it is what it is.

[ryrynz]

That's a shame, with 2060 out now 1060's should start to lower in price so if you're okay with second hand jump on one, preferably the 6GB model.

[chros]

Originally Posted by zapatista

Q3) when playing 4k files (with my limited settings ) my GPU reports 72 or 75% GPU load, and 93 % vram used for ex, but my i7 cpu is only at 20 or 25% load.
- is there a way i can offload some of the video tasks more to the CPU and then be able to enhance other settings in madvr that are GPU load dependent ?
i have tried different "video decoder" selections in mpc-hc, but it doesnt seem to alter this (am using dxva2-copyback as this was suggested by you in an earlier setup guide iirc)
1060 3gb GPU

What's checked in trade performance options? If nothing then check only "scale chroma separately..." option, it should improve things a lot.
Also use DXVA11 native in LAV filters not copyback, it's way faster.
Although the 3GB version of 1060 has less shaders than the 6GB one but I think it should handle 4k hdr well on 1080p screen. But you'll see

Originally Posted by ryrynz

"Definitely not" but I don't really know for sure. Lol.

I meant exactly this for a starter:

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

IMO you're better off with passthrough if you enable dumb tonemapping in the trade performance options.

Originally Posted by ryrynz

if you're okay with second hand jump on one, preferably the 6GB model

I second that, just buy a used 1060 6GB model (it has more shaders (=more powerful) than the 3GB variant) that's what I did. If noise level is important than go for MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB (although probably that's the most expensive card out of all of them).

[glc650]

Hi,

I just upgraded from a Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 to a XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS and now I get dozens of presentation glitches every second when playing any video if the HDMI Scaling slider is set above 0% in the AMD Radeon Settings GUI.

I tried updating the Radeon drivers to 18.12.2 (was on 17.12.1 with the old card). but still get the issue. I've also tried restoring madVR's default settings. And I tried it with the same madVR settings I used with the previous card. I also tried the previous version of madVR.

Never had this issue with the 7870 and I had the HDMI scaling slider set to 3% (which is where I also need it set for the new card).

Thanks,

>g.