DirectShow vs QuickTime vs. Direct x

PMedia · Member Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 136

I'm having trouble with displaying video. I am using on board video on a second monitor here's what I've come up with

Direct Show Images look the best but everytime I click on the timeline it jumps out of full screen
QuickTime: Look bad and blocky but stay full screen. It also seem to be faster to navigate around while editing
Direct X. Ok images - Jumps out of Full screen and shows the system down the worst.

Are these known bugs or can someone tell me how to use Direct Show and it not jump out of full screen all the time?

Cheers

Andrew Mottl · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject:

Hey there,

what video chip is it?

I use Direct-Show, and what I do is set my second monitor in Windows to be in "Theatre" or "Fullscreen Overlay" mode (depending on how the manufacturer calls it).

Now, anytime I have Nuendo open in Direct-Show (or a video in say like VLC player) Windows outputs that in fullscreen out my TV-Out. Great for post!

Should be found somewhere in your graphics card settings

Hope it helps!
Andrew

PMedia · Member Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 136

Ok cool I'll have a look

Cheers

Sprachlabor · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

First of all: Forget DirectX. It's known to be buggy and is not recommended at all.
Weapon of choice vs Nuendo is Quicktime. Quicktime is a container, how ugly or blocky
it looks depends on the codec and resolution you use. Quicktime with PhotoJPEG
(.mov-files) or MotionJPEG (.avi-files) seems to work flawless and stable with fairly good
quality, as many people in this forum use it in a professional environment (me too).
(Using it with a BlackMagic Intensity video card you can even output FullHD via HDMI
without any problems). Another pro on Quicktime is that it allows multiple videos
in the timeline, even rudimentary cutting is possible. DirectShow doesn't allow this.
I hope that helps.

Bye,
Eike
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Andrew Mottl · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately however, QT doesn't allow fullscreen output via the graphics card.

DirectShow does (for me at least). And it seems to run better.
I do have QT-Alternative installed though (v. 1.68, the newer ones don't really work for me).

Stevie · Member Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 470 Location: Germany

I was actually a big fan of Quicktime. Everything worked, but now, since I resized a video I get CPU spikes all over it (I'm not using
a dedicated pci card). This fact makes it unusable. I now tried to switch to DShow. It worked okay with MJPEG movies, but I don't
see any pictures when FF and scrubbing. Can this be fixed somehow?
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