Playing HD video

Riggy

Riggy

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Hello,

I've recently got myself a new monitor for HD viewing but my problem is that Windows Media Player isn't playing any of my videos in HD. Do I need a plug in for it to run the Videos in HD?

Is there any other alternative software I can use to play HD video's?


Thanks
Rig
 
personally I use GOM player (free) for all my videos, and PowerDVD blu-ray edition for all my blu-rays/dvds

Works a treat, haven't encountered anything that GOM can't handle (uses less resources than media player too)

Still use media player for my music obviously.


Although I've never heard of media player not being able to play HD videos, mine seems to be able to
 
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Well get the player linked above. Works fine for me with avi and everything else i try like MKV

asim18 said:
This. Definitely this.

Nah, it's not the same.;) The link AbsenceJam posted has the latest build from a few days ago. Your sourceforge link has an extremely old build from August 2009.
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Ahh right. I've got an old old version then. Either way, it works like a charm. trying to get the new one, lol at that website though.. really
 
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Can someone please point me to the direct link to get MPC-HC 64bit latest version

I cannot understand the russian website and don;t want to download the wrong thing
 
jonislost said:
pretty sure .AVI is never 'HD'. You need to get some H.264 .MKV files at 720p or higher on the go. A new monitor can't magically convert files to HD res :p
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AVI is just the container and it really depends on the codec behind it. Also DivX which uses the AVI container can do HD resolutions.

Eitherway, MPC-HC is what you want, plays everything and also supports DXVA (GPU acceleration) for H.264/VC-1 encoded videos (usually in the MKV container).
 
rctneil said:
Can someone please point me to the direct link to get MPC-HC 64bit latest version

I cannot understand the russian website and don;t want to download the wrong thing
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erm.. It's in English as well. :p

Anyway, THIS is the latest x64 build. Select "I agree" and then press "Continue".
 
jonislost said:
pretty sure .AVI is never 'HD'. You need to get some H.264 .MKV files at 720p or higher on the go. A new monitor can't magically convert files to HD res :p
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Yeah I know that :D

I didn't know AVI couldn't carry HD tbh. I downloaded the clip that claimed it was HD, and it clearly wasn't then lol

At least I know that now ;)
 
Use the russian website, 'lol' all you want, it's miles ahead of the sourceforge, which is a shame..
 
Just to throw another one into the ring: Splash Player. I was trying to get some AVCHD movies playing smoothly and tried MPC, MPC HC and VLC. All of them were slightly jerky and artefacty. Splash handled them all very well. Won't ever replaced MPC for me generally but I was quite impressed with its performance.
 
MotherMayI said:
I don't see why Windows Media Player cant play HD videos? HD is just a resolution over 720 lines I thought?
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It does, perfectly well, but since it requires you to install DirectShow compatible codecs, people run away saying 'no it's crap it doesn't play anything'

VLC, MPC etc use built in codecs to do it, circumventing the whole DirectShow architecture.

I use the Shark007 codec pack on my media pc, a bit bloated but it does do the job, i've also teamed it with Re-Clock as i have sources at both 23.97 and 25fps which don't work amazingly well on the 50Hz screen.
 
gads said:
Yeah but they are svn versions very much in development, are they not really buggy?
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I've only seen one bug (it wouldn't remember the window settings for one or two versions)

I update mine every week or so, it has Windows 7 taskbar controls in the SVN :)


VLC is poor for mkv playback
 
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