Recommended player - performance and stability - for live presentatation

[alexandre_fs]

Hello

I have a presentation and I will use a 4 minute 2880x1080 .MOV file with H264 compression.
The video will be spaned to 2 projectores simulating a video wall. I acomplished this with a dual output graphic card.

I tried using QuickTime (not PRO) but the CPU usage reaches 90% and the flow of the video is not continuous.
So, I installed VLC.

With VLC the CPU usage is about 35% and the video flow is almost perfect. However there is a big problem:

VLC can't loop a video continuously like QuickTime does. There is a functionality called Repeat A-B where you set 2 points in a video and it will loop the video in that interval, but I'm not able to set the points in the beginning and end of the movie. First question: Is this feature possible in VLC?

Second question: If I upgrade my QuickTime to QuickTime Pro, will I gain performance? (QuickTime can loop continuously)

Third question: What other players can you recommend me for my needs? (The player must be able to reproduce a mov with H264 compression) Oh and be very stable! I would like to avoid blue screens in the middle of the show


Thank you for your attention
Any input is greatly appreciated!!

[Baldrick]

You can also try media player classic. You might need quicktime alternative. You can set it to repeat under View->Options->Playback->Repeat forever.

[jagabo]

MPCHC or KMPlayer

[alexandre_fs]

Thank you for your answers.

My conclusions so far: Media Player Classic has great performance, but the repeat forever function produces a lag between the end and start of the movie.

KMPlayer has a A-B repeat functionality that cad be automatized in the command line, and produces almost no lag while repeating the movie. Performance is good (not as good as VLC), however this is the one I chose.

[jagabo]

You can use MPCHC's video decoder within KMPlayer. That may get you the best of both players. This thread discusses it:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic362000.html#1925138

[redwudz]

You mention MPC, but have you tried Media Player Classic Home Cinema? It's optimized for H.264.

I don't use Mplayer much, but for HD playback a quad core is one of the easy ways to improve playback. But you probably don't want to go that far. If your video card can use hardware acceleration, that would also help quite a bit. If you are running XP, 1GB is probably enough. Vista wants about 2GB. Others can probably give you some specific Mplayer tips.

[Soopafresh]

Per your other post, most of the GUI based media players have command line functionality. You could conceivably do something like


:top
MPCHC Yourfile.mov
goto top


MPCHC will take advantage of your Nvidia video card.

[supersonicl2]

Seriously, BSPlayer Pro would probably be your best solution. The repeat function on that works seamless when compared to Media Player Classic.

[alexandre_fs]

Thank you for all your answers.

Just to conclude:

The presentation went fine.

I chose to use MPlayer because of its command line functionality (which allowed me to automatize everything) and excellent repeat function (with no lag). It was not the best in terms of performance but not bad...

I had a computer running the video around 10hours per day for 5 days, and never had any error! So I guess its good in stability!