![]() With the GOTD from Aiseesoft probably hundreds of millions of people have used ffmpeg-based software, so there aren't many unknown gotchas. I couldn't find anything about anyone using Splash 2 for encoding or converting, though admittedly I only did a few quick searches. using ffdshow &/or LAV Filters with certain formats set to use the Intel GPU's quicksync for decoding & the AMD GPU for everything else. I like that sort of thing because I can sometimes get both the GPU on my graphics card & the one in my CPU working at the same time, e.g. For everything else there are several mplayer-based players hu/design7/projects.html ], MPC-HC, & of course the venerable VLC.Īs downloaded I can't say that any one of them is superior to Splash, but if you spend the time, & get everything working, you *might* be able to use extra Direct Show filters & such to optimize video handling &/or playback for your system, but that's not for everyone & it won't always work the ways you want it to. For Blu-Ray & DVD I have PowerDVD 15 Ultra - I'll upgrade to the new 16 eventually when it's on sale in the $30 range, because as a licensed Blu-Ray/DVD player it handles those DRM laden discs just like my stand-alone players. Would I buy it for $20? Probably not, but not because Splash isn't worth the money. I'd rather they included OpenCL in the mix of supported tech, but oh well. That's not to make light of mirillis using GPU assist. Now that wouldn't apply to most PCs, since most don't run those sorts of video cards, but when gamers have to run one or sometimes 2 higher wattage power supplies *just* because of those graphics cards, it seems odd to me to think of them as power saving. If you've got a somewhat powerful graphics card, using it to help decode rather than just display video, I'm not that sure you could count on any energy saving. The only quibble that I have with the ad copy on the Splash product page at mirillis' site is their bit about power saving. You can see some comments at videohelp, where users have rated Splash 7.5/10, apparently since 2009. There may well be great potential in this software but the developer is going to have to put a lot more effort into expanding its features to match what it calls itself and considering that one of the most fundamental aspect, video playback is flawed, when there are many free products that aren't, then it shows to me that this is a product rushed out without due testing and feature verification and unless these are addressed quickly then the product will crash and burn spectacularly. On top of the lack of functionality, we only have a 6 month licence, which is not going to go down well at all. ![]() I did test it out though and despite it using Quick Sync, it did not accelerate it much at all compared to other conversion programs that I have used that only supported multi CPU operation. Then I decided to test its export options and was rather dismayed to see that the number of export options is so woefully inadequate that you would just not really want to use the function. ![]() Other general and common formats it played OK. When using the programs information screen it failed to identify the type of video and showed that the audio (despite actually being stereo) was only mono. The first 2 files that I played were H265 and neither would play the video. Unfortunately, too much else is not up to standard. Nice to see that the developer has included intel Quick Sync in the range for acceleration, so thumbs up for that. A combined player and encoder seemed an interesting idea.
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