Playing DivX/XviD files is very easy, even for a not so fresh cpu. Playing H.264 on the other hand… I used timecodec to do some tests in comparing the relative speeds of ffdshow and CoreAVC (the old 0.0.4 alpha release, now I’m sure it’s faster, and I’ll probably buy it when the 1.2 comes out) and different renderers, and here is what I get (fps/dfps):
| ffdshow | coreavc | |
| overlay | 32/31 | 39/38 |
| VMR7 | 32/30 | 40/35 |
| VMR9 | 33/30 | 39/32 |