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kauai808:
Im using VLC atm to play mkv. vid files, but it sometimes gets hella fucked with pixels for a second or two every few mins or so, its bearable but gets so annoying tbh. Anyways i just wanted to know what kind of media player you use to play your vids on

HiddenJumper:
I use VLC as well. Sometimes if I run into that issue, I switch over to Media Player Classic.

i_am_otep:
CCCP + MPC is pretty much standard this days, especially with the 10bit stuff coming out...

Seriously, try this one and you'll never look back to vlc.

kauai808:

--- Quote from: i_am_otep on October 08, 2011, 11:36:22 PM ---CCCP + MPC is pretty much standard this days, especially with the 10bit stuff coming out...

Seriously, try this one and you'll never look back to vlc.

--- End quote ---

thx bro thats the kind of answer i was looking for.

ColdFission:
I used to use Windows Media Player a lot. Then switched over to VLC as at the time, had better support with codecs and subs. Later on, had serious problems with blocky pixels and moved onto MPC HC and never looked back.

I used to use the CCCP codec pack but switched over K-lite Mega codec pack.

For settings, I use the EVR Custom Preset Output settings along with the LAV Video Decoder (with this Output setting, 10-bit content gets dithered down to 8-bit NV12 on the desktop and 8-bit RGB32 on the laptop as the laptop has a piss poor Intel GMA HD GPU on it but the desktop has a ATi Radeon HD 4870 so colour quality is slightly better) on both my desktop and laptop for performance reasons.

If wanted to do full-blown 10-bit output, I would have to use the MadVR Output setting with either the MadVR Video Decoder or the LAV Video Decoder (the FFDshow Video Decoder dithers down to 8-bit regardless of Output setting). But since MadVR does use quite a lot of processing resources to put quality over performance, I did experience frame drops on the desktop (has an Intel E7300 @ 3.33Ghz) during 1080p 10-bit playback but smooth 720p 10-bit playback. But with the settings mentioned earlier with the EVR Custom Preset Output, playback is smooth for both 1080p and 720p 10-bit content dithered down to 8-bit with a smaller performance hit on the CPU and GPU. For quality, I couldn't tell the difference between dithered and not dithered.

For the laptop (which has the Intel Core i3 330M CPU), the story is the same for playback with dropping of frames but more sever with 1080p 10-bit as the GPU is piss poor (with the MadVR settings as stated earlier). Worse still when trying to play it back on the 46-inch full HD Samsung (via HDMI) we have, frames drop like flies. 720p 10-bit runs fine on laptop screen (1366 x 768) but story is also the same when connected to the HDTV. However, 1080p and 720p 8-bit content run totally fine on the laptop's screen and on the HDTV with the EVR Custom Preset Output settings.

So with MadVR, the desktop's CPU can't keep with 1080p 10-bit content from dropping frames at times (and when it does, CPU usage spikes to 100%) and the laptop's GPU can't keep up with 1080p 10-bit content. And thus, I just use the settings stated at the beginning of my post.

I will post some numbers as soon as I get them written down. All of this was based on playback from 3XR's release of Redline (haven't seen the film yet in full xD).

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