Hi, I use MPC-HC for watching videos in .avi and .mkv formats, if I start downloading something big that takes up HDD speed, the MPC-HC starts lagging a lot and impossible to watch, the thing is that if I use VLC for playing, it works just fine no matter what HDD usage, it looks like it just takes up the cache/HDD speed it needs. So how do I do that with MPC-HC? Cannot find any setting.
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I'm not so sure it's the cache myself.
One of the things I don't like about vlc is actually the fact that you don't have local file cache settings since 2.0 came out. I like vlc but I don't consider it a particularly fast program. I mostly use smplayer which is a front end for mplayer. In fact, I've seen linux articles where they recommended mplayer over vlc on slow systems because vlc is a slow program.
I think you might want to look at some other settings in mpchc. I didn't use it much in windows and it's not a linux program so I don't have it installed at all anymore, even on my one windows 7 partition. But there should be something. Is direct rendering turned on? Which video output module is it using?
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Thanks for replying, but I don't know what video output module is and where to check that direct rendering. I also don't like VLC, it's picture colors are very dull compared to MPC-HC, which shows movies in bright colors. When running MPC-HC it launches ffdshow video decoder and ffdshow audio decoder, I guess maybe settings should go there, but it has like million of buttons.
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Last edited by hello_hello; 23rd Mar 2014 at 11:22.
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I don't know if this will help but try increasing the Max Queue Mem setting of the built in LAV splitter.
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