Recommended media player

[Edgarke16]

hello guys, ok the thing is that im constantly ripping and playing HD video, some of them are muxed into mkv files, some others just m2ts. The thing is that i saw all the functions PowerDVD 11 has for playing media ( intel clear video and ThruTheater ) and felt atracted about it. but then i thought why not using any standard media player like gom or vlc, .. My question would be, which media player do you recommend to have the best experience?

Thanx a lot

[Baldrick]

MPCHC.

[fritzi93]

Yeah, MPCHC. A couple tips for using it with Win7, I just switched from XP myself:

Go into View -> Options -> Playback -> Output. Use EVR Preset or EVR Sync to render subtitles. If you want subtitles to auto-load, tick the box under playback.

Under Internal Filters disable Matroska and install Haali. If you have a DXVA capable video card and ffdshow is installed, you may have to disable the use of ffdshow within MPCHC to get the player to use DXVA. You'll see DXVA in the Transform Filters pane if the card has the capability.

Beats hell out of PDVD.

Good luck.

[neomaine]

MPCHC here as well. Though, I'm not sure why it has a hard time with my latest VC1 backup. Never noticed a problem before. File plays fine on my WDTV Live.

[Edgarke16]

thanx a lot... im about to try it.

ok got another question. And maybe this is doesnt belong to this topic, but it makes me crazy sometimes.

I usualy connect my laptop via HDMI to a LCD Samsung 8000 240Hz 1080p, and watch the movies on gom, pdvd, and others, (im about to try MPCHC). and no matter wich player i use, when i play a movie, whithin a period of time, sometimes arround 30 seconds.. i get a annoying judder, and heard about some issues the 240Hz motion plus causes, and i turned it off, but stil get the judder, and just comes from my laptop, cus with the ps3 the movies play smoothly. What should i do??

Thank you all very much for answering my first question.

[Edgarke16]

oohhh my god, i think i did something wrong, becouse just after installing MPCHC played a m2ts file and the image turned green with stripes like interlaced image, then the program stopped working, tryed it a couple of times jet.

i disabled the matroska option and haali is already installed in my pc. also changed to evr sync.

this is what im trying to play:

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps [Video - AVC (H.264), High Profile, Level 4.1, 1920x1080, 29.970 fps (1011,e0,00)]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 640kbps [Audio - Dolby Digital Plus, 48.0 kHz, 6 chn, 640.0 kbit/s (1100,fd,00)]
Subtitle [No subtitles]

[Edgarke16]

well, returned all to default settings but, cant play the file jet. maybe i should get a tutorial of how to tweak MPCHC to be able to play any file nice... any tuto arround here?

[davexnet]

There's some info here:
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/DXVASupport.html

[Jackscagnetti]

i installed haali codec from the link you provided but dont see it showing up in windows media player classic HC is there a trick or something? Also how do i play a blue ray BDMV folder in windows media player classic?

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 video card and win 7 64

[davexnet]

Try disabling MPCHC's source filter. view/options/internal filters.
Deselct matroska and mp4/mov in the source filter column.

Can't you just drag and drop the folder onto the program?

[The Mariner]

What about Splash ?

[D_Knife]

I just switched to Splash Pro as well, better playback options for me than MPCHC.

[nowak93]

Splash gets the optimal performance(great picture too) for a low usage, though that's all. As of above me MPCHC got more options, yes. If you have a slow computer Splash really helps out.

[-t40-]

I've managed to open 4k resolution file(4096*2304) with CoreAVC and MPC-HC on old Ahtlon and GE Force 8400GS (just for lolz).But not with Splash.

[grantah]

I have a problem with MPCHC, after a short time of use my PC heats up and crashes. I have Windows 7 Sony VAIO VPCEC3DFX
Mobility Radeon HD 5470, this only happens when I run MPCHC, any ideas why?

[neomaine]

That's not a PC, per se, its a laptop. Sounds like your internal GPU is overheating. Have you tried a laptop cooler?

It may be the CPU. Watch the performance monitor in task manager to see if your CPU % is running high.