Most efficient decoder for H264?

mrk · 25 Jan 2010 at 20:41

It's in the Options under Output

Scottland · 25 Jan 2010 at 20:45

Here they are:

mrk · 25 Jan 2010 at 20:46

Ah same except resizer is Bicubic A = 1.0

Scottland · 25 Jan 2010 at 20:57

Ok, I'll give that a go - cheers

bledd · 25 Jan 2010 at 22:05

Get the very latest MPC-HC builds here

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-classic-home-cinema-x86-x64/

Install DX9 first (google dxwebsetup)

mrk · 25 Jan 2010 at 22:25

Nice, Win7 taskbar progress bar + preview controls!

bledd · 25 Jan 2010 at 22:27

Yup

It's sometimes annoying that MPC has such a 'ghetto' development method

Hopefully someone will add full microsoft mce remote support

s-p · 25 Jan 2010 at 22:31

Useful page for getting DXVA working can be found here: http://nunnally.ahmygoddess.net/watching-h264-videos-using-dxva/.

The DXVA checker linked on that page is a very helpful tool for diagnosing any issues you may have with your setup.

wolvers · 26 Jan 2010 at 07:29

bledd. said:
Hopefully someone will add full microsoft mce remote support

It does work, just takes a bit of fiddling to set it up.

wolvers · 26 Jan 2010 at 07:38

Furton said:
Do you mean you can use the built in x264 codec of W7 in WMC? More details please

Win7 has everything you need to play mkv except the splitter. You can simply install the latest Haali and it should work. I prefer to use the MPC-HC matroskasplitter.ax by registering it manually as it's the only one that support mkv with HD bistreaming (latest ffdshow for this). It can be found in the MPC-HC standalone filters pack (see bledd's link).

You will need to extract the file to a location on your hard disk then open an elevated command prompt. To get an elevated command prompt simply open your start menu and type “cmd” then press ctrl-shift-enter. Once inside type the following: “C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 FILELOCATION”, replacing FILELOCATION with the location of the extracted file. For registering x64 filters do the same except use: “C:\Windows\sysWOW64\regsvr32 FILELOCATION”.

To uninstall a previously installed filter follow the same steps to launch an elevated command prompt then enter “C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 /u FILELOCATION” or “C:\Windows\sysWOW64\regsvr32 /u FILELOCATION” depending on the version.

I also have some AVIs so I have the avisplitter.ax registered as well.

If you want to use a different h.264 decoder in WMC then just install it and use 'Windows 7 Preferred Directshow Filter Tweaker' to select the one you want.

dbmzk1 · 26 Jan 2010 at 08:46

Windows 7 will play MKV files out of the box, with no additional software at all. Just force WMP to open the file. Works quite well!

Personally I use MPC-HC

wolvers · 26 Jan 2010 at 11:55

Not all of them it won't. It depends on what's in container.

Columbo · 26 Jan 2010 at 12:04

I just installed these and it makes WMC play just about every type of format on the planet.

I havent looked at or needed anything else since installed it.

mrk · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:33

Anyone using MPC here's a logo I made, very simple but makes MPC look much nicer when idle compared to the stock (terrible) logos.

Screenshot:

Logo:

The bars were actually cut out of a Sony Bravia demo page ¬_¬

NathanE · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:52

@mrk I've already plagarised your previous logo with all the Dolby logos etc from a previous post of yours

mrk · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:58

Mind putting said logos into this one too?

Here's my PSD!
http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/mpc_logo.psd

Edit*

Ahh I see what you mean, you used my old logo with the dolby logos

NathanE · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:15

I used the wonders of Photoshop's crop tool to nick it from a screenshot you posted not long ago

mrk · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:25

Sneaky!