Good HD media software for vista?

Metalface Mark · 30 Jun 2008 at 14:35

I set my laptop up to be my media player, its a decent spec, 2gb ram, 2.5ghz penryn, 250gb hard disk and 250gb hard disk.

I used VLC player to run the matrix, which was an mkv file, and it runs but keeps breaking up, it works okay on my desktop.

I have vista home 32bit on my laptop, is there instability problems with vista and VLC?

Is there any alternative software someone can recommend to try, or is it perhaps a ram problem and more is needed?

Its a dell 1530 xps.

ubern00b · 30 Jun 2008 at 16:03

MediaPlayerClassic - Home Cinema Edition + FFDSHOW or CoreAVC.

AbsenceJam · 30 Jun 2008 at 17:02

You don't need ffdshow or CoreAVC with MPC-HC.

Kanifee · 30 Jun 2008 at 17:39

FFDshow, haali media splitter/matroska media splitter and windows media player 10 or VMCE seem to work a treat for me, never had any issues with it ever, once you use the easy fix to stop full screen judering, its spot on.

not a great fan of WMPC or VLC TBH!

Matrix · 30 Jun 2008 at 17:56

I use Kmplayer on Vista and thats seems to work really well to me.

ubern00b · 30 Jun 2008 at 18:27

AbsenceJam said:
You don't need ffdshow or CoreAVC with MPC-HC.

This is a very valid point however I mentioned CoreAVC purely on an efficiency side. The built in MPC-HCE decoder is based on ffmpeg as far as I know so should pretty much be the same as ffdshow.

ssmacc · 1 Jul 2008 at 13:01

I've just built my Dad a HTPC and the only codecs i've put on are:
CoreAVC
AC3filter
Windows Media Player plays everything i throw it, no need for anything else.
i did have ffdshow this caused large .mkv files to stutter, i then realised that i had to manual set ffdshaw to use 2 cores (worth checking if you have an older version).

TheDean · 1 Jul 2008 at 14:24

ubern00b said:
MediaPlayerClassic + CoreAVC.

That's what you need

flamezmack · 1 Jul 2008 at 18:33

MPC + FFDShow..Coreavc quality of picture is nowhere near as good as when using ffdshow

dbmzk1 · 2 Jul 2008 at 00:04

MPC-HC + Haali Media Splitter + ffdshow. You can use CoreAVC if you want, but as it is not free there is little point unless you have a slow PC as its efficiency is its only real advantage.

IMO do DO need these with MPC-HC as the built in filters are not great. Plus ffdshow lets you play with the video and fine tune it. It also allows you to play with the audio as much as the video which is nice.

Metalface Mark · 2 Jul 2008 at 11:22

Excellent thanks guys, ill give it a go tonight and see if it fixes it.