BBC HD on Freesat - aspect ratio problems

[PerryM]

I have Media Center TV Pack running fine including correct viewing of BBC HD (using I believe the 'Fiji' beta H264 codec). For various reasons I added DVBViewer (Pro) edition, and this did not show pictures for BBC HD. I tried adding the trial 'CoreAVC' codec, and this indeed then gave me pictures but they are displaying with the wrong aspect ratio. I suspect the 1440 pixels are not being stretched to 1920 as is required.

Can I then ask:

1) Should I need a different H264 codec from the one that works in MCE?

2) If I do, is CoreAVC the best one to use?

3) How do I get the aspect ratio to show correctly?

[PerryM]

Well to (probably) answer my own question - I installed FFDShow and that works fine.

[Rob100]

I use PowerDVD 7/8 H264 decoders (different systems) using DXVA with great results and very little CPU useage (due to HA on GPU).

 

On my client PC (in the lounge) I only have an old AMD XP2500 running at stock speed and using an AGP ATI HD2400 and the PowerDVD7 codec (maybe 8 will work on this set-up, but if it ain't broke....). Playback is flawless.

 

CoreAVC works fine on my AMD 5500e system, but CPU is running at up to 80% (rather than ~3% with PowerDVD/DXVA).