poor HVEC codec playback (av sync and frame stutter)

[bherrin2]

Hi everyone,
I recently did a clean install on my vr video rig and switched over to Moon VR from whirligig.
It seems Moon uses an internal codec pack since I did not need to install any codecs for VP9 and HVEC video's to playback with the creators update build.

No issues with H264. No issues with VP9 up to 4k, 5k VP9 starts to struggle a little.

1920P HVEC, on the other hand, is terrible. AV is always out of sync and stuttering. Fram rate is jerky, probably due to fram drops to try and keep av in sync.

Anyone know for sure if Moon uses an internal codec pack? Has anyone installed an HVEC codec pack with out breaking Moon VR?

System specs:
Windows 10 1709 (fresh install)
i5 7600 @3.5
16 Gigs ram
R9380 GPU (yeah, it's long in the tooth but all other codecs work great up to 4k)

[bherrin2]

OK, In case anyone else comes across this looking for an answer:

Installing the hevc codec from the microsoft store fixed the issue.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/hevc-video-extension/9n4wgh0z6vhq

[Dwyloc]

Thanks for the info.

Looks like I already had it installed, which is probably why I had not had any issues.
I use a mixture of Whirligig and Moon VR depending on what I am planning to watch.
Whirligig is more flexible (and I like using the virtual room for watching 2D movies), but I really like the simplicity of Moon VR and the autohide feature for the controllers.

The GearVR version of Moon VR is also my player of choice on that platform (I use by GearVR a lot more as a portal gaming system and large VR for watching movies when I am away from home). So I purchased the PC version of Moon VR as soon as it came out, and as soon as auto hide for the controllers was added I swapped over to using it as my main VR media player with my HTC Vive.

Now if they would just fix the couple of missing translations for some of the options in the menus on the current version, it would be almost perfect 😉