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CCCP 2009-09-09
Klocknov:
Looks like I get to do a lot of playing with settings again, and my Haali Splitter was set already at 256mb so it should be perfectly fine (it shot up to that once I started watching Dennou Coil in 720p) I was thinking of going to 512, do you think that would make any difference as in would it make it lag more or become smoother?
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Klocknov on September 12, 2009, 02:01:15 PM ---Looks like I get to do a lot of playing with settings again, and my Haali Splitter was set already at 256mb so it should be perfectly fine (it shot up to that once I started watching Dennou Coil in 720p) I was thinking of going to 512, do you think that would make any difference as in would it make it lag more or become smoother?
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I notched it to 50GB, lmao. Where would it reside anyways? In the memory that you have or on your HDD? I'd say just notch it to 2GB for now. I don't think there is a good (awesome!) codec out there yet other than Haali Splitter. I'm sure they'll come out with something better than Haali or they may upgrade Haali to something better.
Talapus:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on September 12, 2009, 02:33:54 PM ---I don't think there is a good (awesome!) codec out there yet other than Haali Splitter. I'm sure they'll come out with something better than Haali or they may upgrade Haali to something better.
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Haali is a file splitter, not a codec. Which is why it has to be used in conjunction with actual codecs. All it does it break up the file stream.
Xtras:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on September 12, 2009, 11:31:20 AM ---I think MPC HC has better support for offloading the CPU partially to the GPU.
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I thought that offloading to GPU needed its own separate software (most of which is not cheap)
--- Quote from: Takeshi ---xtras, I find it funny that you prefer WMP before MPC. Can you offer any proof of the so-called bad playback that WMP doesn't do? I find MPC to be far superior. Of course, in my old days I used to use WMP because it was already installed, but features such as correcting a bad aspect ratio made me switch.
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Generally speaking I would agree with you. Windows Media Player 11 and below were not good enough to complete with MPC and KMPlayer and GOM and VLC and whatever else. Were it not for the name, I wouldn't have guessed WMP12 was from the same family as all those other crappy 11 and under players microsoft has shelled out. I probably haven't messed around with the settings enough, but from how they look straight out of the installers, WMP 12 takes the win when I fullscreen OZC's Outlaw Star, AHQ's Gundam Seed Destiny, and ACX's IGPX. Actually I know for sure I am probably doing something wrong because MPC is giving me chunks of pixelation scattered around. It might work better than WMP 12 in the long run, but I just don't want to go through and mess with settings until it works perfectly. WMP does what I need and does it well. It has no excess crap like the other versions, and is very light and very fast. I will assure you, it is not nearly as bad as the old windows media players. I believe 12 is still a beta, and generally can only be found on Windows 7.
--- Quote from: bloody000 --- I read that Win7 media apps prefers Windows' Media Foundation codecs over any DS filters.
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It can be modified if you really care to. But these codecs aren't bad. The new H 264 one is actually better than the one that is included in CCCP in terms of how versatile it tackling possible variations in encoding (I have had several sources tell me the same).
kureshii:
I used to use ZoomPlayer Home MAX, but just switched to MPC-HC today. There was only one reason for the switch, but it was a good enough reason to motivate me: custom shader support. It's probably not a concern for most people, but I have a wide-gamut PVA LCD which results in oversaturated reds. Imagine flesh tones looking like they have a lightbulb underneath making it extra glowy (put a torchlight under your hand if you don't get what I mean).
[edit] For a more visual representation, I tried to create two images (from an Index screenshot) that show the difference. Of course I can't do this really accurately since colour representation is slightly different on each monitor, but the relative differences in colour should be pretty obvious.
Without colour correction:
With colour correction:
My colour calibrator finally arrived today, so with the help of this thread I managed to create a custom shader that pulls video colours back into sRGB space. Sadly, video players do not have colour management support yet, so this is pretty much the only way I can watch my videos with normal colours.
This can be done with a custom filter in ffmpeg too AFAIK, but since I'm using CoreAVC (running on a laptop with IGP so there's no way I can DXVA/vdpau/CUDA) that's not an option for me.
Took some time to set up keyboard shortcuts in MPC-HC, but now I'm quite pleased with it. I still miss some things about Zoom Player though, mainly UI-related changes and features, and certain aspects of presentation (auto-playlist and auto-AR FTW!).
Actually, I don't really care which media players CCCP bundles with it (I wouldn't mind if they removed both either), since I got both Zoom Player and MPC-HC from other sources.
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