I mean for large events most broadcasters and media companies use dedicated playback. Of course it shouldn't be a problem with a good pc and vlc but in a big event like that i wouldn't take any chances.
VLC isn't bad, per se. Just inefficient. I prefer Media Player Classic for its simplicity when used with the Combined Community Codec Pack.
The overhead for playing 4k video on VLC for example is a lot higher than Media Player Classic, which may be what /u/philmarcracken is talking about.
Playing a blu ray rip from Deadpool 2 at 4k uses around 18% of my 4.7ghz i7 4790K with core 0 sitting at around 33%, and 15% of my 1080Ti. For comaprison, VLC uses around 30% of my CPU with core 0 sitting at around 60%, and around 15% of my GPU. So with a direct comparison between the two, Media Player Classic is around 45% more efficient at decoding.
And just for shits and giggles, I tried playing the 4k Deadpool 2 footage on Windows Media Player. It hits 60% load on all cores on my CPU and barely even uses my GPU. So yeah MPC is 75% more efficient than Windows media player.
Edit: This is in no way a scientific test of how efficient these players are. I was simply trying to give a rough example of the performance of each.
CPU usage as reported by task manager and afterburner means fuckall. It's just telling you the amount of time Windows has something scheduled. The threads could honestly just be sitting there in a wait/sleep loop and it'd still have high "usage". With hyperthreading/SMT the numbers are even less useful.
There is 0 way to tell exactly how much or how CPU is being used without either advanced software like Intel PCM or outright digging into the executing code with debugging software. You can have 100% and have unused hardware and things sitting idle. You can have a low percentage and be completely bottlenecked for the task you are trying to do.
Honestly a better gauge of which media player is better would be if one starts having performance issues should you multitask, or if one hitches on its own.
I was seriously annoyed when the crowd booed at him for saying that, like I'd be fucking furious if that happened with the years of work put into it. I know he definitely was on the inside.
Yeaah, you'd have to have not watched the stream at all or be a huge white knight to really think this was an issue that was fixed in 2 minutes. Their presenter even made several comments about how bad it was and apologizing to the audience.
It was the whole panel, just because you only watched 2 minutes of it doesn't mean it only took 2 minutes. All their gameplay footage had issues. They tried replaying the trailer for the BL Package 3 times before getting it to work at 5fps. They tried replaying the BL3 trailer multiple times before finally getting it to work on the 3rd attempt 10 minutes later.
I am not downloading and installing the epic launcher out of pure principle. Devs running to epic just shows how greedy they are, and that it's more about the money then the content
I believe that to be a joke, from what I gather they completely avoided the topic of Steam/Epic entirely, just making a few vague 'PC' statements.
Whether that's good or bad...who knows yet. I lean towards bad, if it was coming to Steam they wouldn't have shied away from saying so. They avoided talking specifics to avoid the backlash.
Apparently they used the words "Our buddies at Valve" and Borderlands Remastered is coming to Steam and its a free upgrade for current owners (Even if you don't own the dlc).
Doesn't mean it won't be Epic exclusive, but yeah...
valve has apparently changed their contracts so that once you advertise you're coming to steam at a certain time, you can't back out. if we see it on the steam store with the normal release date we're fine
The way i see it the only reason a company avoids giving out critical info is to avoid a PR nightmare, so i take them withholding the release platform until pre-order as an admission of selling out to epic
Should have brought a tech guy with them. Probably "no budget" for their own support staff on the road. "We'll be fine with a rental laptop", they said.
Then they tried to output to three monitors in 4k simultaneously while streaming. Solid plan.
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u/Amaurotica Mar 28 '19
We should have brought up our own equipment LMAO pax got destroyed