Best Media Player for H.264 and DivX/Xvid

[PESolution]

nah it just put my processor to 100% and 10minutes later i gave up and ended the task.

 

[PESolution]

I'd suggest MPC-HC 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema', based on the original MPC, but includes internal format support, DXVA acceleration, among other things.

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/category/1/1/2/ (latest compiled builds)

I tried the Home Cinema one already, however it wouldnt play my HD files for some reason, only standard divx etc... It showed a black screen and all i could get was sound.

Im happy so far with this KMPlayer for my video, the quality seems a lot better for the H264 and it looks cool too.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

KMplayer with coreavc, needs setting up correctly though, but you will never look back once it has been.

 

[Arjun806]

Personally I use KMPlayer, used to use MPC but I prefer this one now.

 

[dbmzk1]

I'd suggest MPC-HC 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema', based on the original MPC, but includes internal format support, DXVA acceleration, among other things.

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/category/1/1/2/ (latest compiled builds)

This.

 

[Final8y]

I am very fussy lol. By all means for probably 80% of users VLC is great, it just works. I to swore by it until i got my projector. FFDShow etc. just allow you to get the most out your sources, and thats what you need on anything bigger than a PC Monitor.

My fussiness annoys a lot of people lol, even if someone is watching something in the wrong aspect ratio it does my nut in, all the people are squashed man how can you watch that!

Nothing wrong with being fussy when better quality is feasible & with the examples you have shown above has got me thinking as that difference is worth while to me.

 

[Final8y]

Moved over to KMPlayer & the control you have over things is amazing.

KMPlayer/WMP/WMC/VistaCodecPack+64-bit.ext sorted.

 

[bledd]

anyone got any ffdshow tweaking guides?

i know how to do all the sound side of things, to get 'surround' emulated from a stereo source in ffdshow, but not sure how to tweak the video

 

[Conrad11]

anyone got any ffdshow tweaking guides?

i know how to do all the sound side of things, to get 'surround' emulated from a stereo source in ffdshow, but not sure how to tweak the video

Would also be interested in this.

 

[osullivanpt]

WMP 11 + CCCP

 

[mrk]

FFDSHOW+QT Lite+


MPC:

...MPC:

Oh, did I say MPC?

 

[Tombo]

CoreAVC is good too

 

[mrk]

No!

QT Lite!

 

[bledd]

CoreAVC is good too

i was under the impression this is poorer quality than most, but has the lowest cpu usage... (so is good for older machines only)

 

[Tombo]

That's not true at all

 

[bledd]

wasn't having a go at you, that's just what i'd read somewhere i thought..? with haali's being the best quality or some ffdshow build..?

 

[Kainz]

After using Zoom Player for years, and having recently purchased the latest godawful v6, I tried out KM Player on Vista x64. Oh my god - keyboard controls are identical out of the box and configurable just like Zoom. It feels snappier and a lot more robust too.

I'll be temporarily switching to KM Player for a good few weeks to get a feel for the thing. Zoom has been quirky and crash prone since Vista SP1 arrived.

 

[knowlesy]

For the media player: VLC.

esp version 9

plus it has loads of options now !!!!

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

Media Player Classic + FFDShow

1) Resize 2x
2) Blur + NR (Denoise 3D + HQ)
3) Unsharp Mask

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

Here we go.

XVID of Empire.

Once its upscaled with FFDShow aswell, it actually makes xvids just about watchable on my big screen.

What settings for FFDShow?