whats best mkv player nowdays

Khaaan! said:
What do you mean better downscaling? It's exactly the same quality as any other hardware accelerated player but WMP doesn't have all the necessary audio codecs and filters for decoding and allowing you to select various audio and subtitle streams.

It also doesn't not have a bookmarks with marker point feature nor will it resume playback for any video you return to later plus its keyboard shortcuts are only basic in function.
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For a HT enthusiast yeah maybe its a bad choice because of lack of extras, but if the OP was one already I'm pretty sure he would have posted this in the home cinema section?
WMP12 has played every thing I have thrown at it so far and I do a hell of a lot of different video encoding.
But bookmarks and resume playback? anybody seriously enjoying movies would watch one the whole way through, and if needs be they will pause it when they run to the toilet. Too many features for nothing IMO (notice the "IMO" here)

...and it does let you chose different/other streams.
 
Khaaan! said:
Edit* Yes!

Why install K-Lite codec packs when the ongoing development of MPC-HC has everything built in and is newer :p
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Does MPC-Hc have all the codecs built in like K-Lite? So if I remove K-Lite and install MPC-HC everything will work as it has previously?

Trying to understand the difference here because i've never had a problem but that screenie say X64 Edition and that makes me want :o
 
Almost daily, yeah!

Relentless81 said:
Does MPC-Hc have all the codecs built in like K-Lite? So if I remove K-Lite and install MPC-HC everything will work as it has previously?

Trying to understand the difference here because i've never had a problem but that screenie say X64 Edition and that makes me want :o
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Not really any reason to get the x64 edition, it's just a media player :p
 
MPC-HC for me. VLC offers nowhere near the performance for 1080p mkv files in my experience. I've started using XBMC lately though and that's never given me a problem either.
 
I'm going to really nitpicky and say that it depends on the encoding of the source material. MKV is just a container and can have allsorts of things in it. This could be a low quality MPEG2 stream which could be played on lowly hardware without accelleration to a high bitrate h.264 which requires MUCH more power. It is the encoding which matters not the container. I'm guessing what you are really asking is the best software to handle hidef h.264 rips of bluray movies in MKV containers. In which case I'll add a +1 to MPC-HC.
 
well ive tried a few of the suggestions here guys mphc and vlc both seemed nice but both struggled with a 1080p h264 sound and video just did not match i think this is something to do with my comps power maybe and i will have to stick to divx for now :(

one that seemed to play them the best was kmplayer which i have used in the past
 
yeah tried that seems i can play 720p ok but 1080p seems to be a no go

gotta remember this is only a dual core lappy running vista and intergrated x3100 gfx i think it might just not be up to it
 
As suggested above - for low end systems, I've found the best decompressor to be CoreAVC. Its not free, but I can play 720p H264 on a atom netbook smoothly using it so it may well work for 1080p on your system. To use this you will need to use a player WITHOUT inbuilt decompressors Try installing it and using windows mediaplayer and see if its any better.

Shame that x3100 doesnt support CUDA or DXVA so you are looking a a software only solution.

Coreavc's siate says...

http://corecodec.com/products/coreavc/requirements

1080p video at 24-30 frames per second

CPU - 2.8 GHz or faster Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD processor
RAM - At least 1GB of RAM
GPU - 256MB or greater video card
OS - Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7

..which should do it for you.
 
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That's of course with all the extras disabled and it set to run as light as possible, it can still bog down. :)
One of my mates was still unable to play a lot of 1080p videos fluently (stutters/sound going out of sync) with an AMD 3700+, 2GB RAM, MPC-HC and CoreAVC, so I think the recommended requirements are a little...underpowered.

Be aware subtitles tend to use extra CPU time if you use those also so that doesnt help either.
 
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