Best program for 1080p ?

J86 · 23 Apr 2010 at 22:11

I have an ATI 5570 gfx card plugged into my 1080p TV via HDMI to provide picture and sound, just wondering really what the best program would be to watch 1080p bluray movies on my PC, displaying on my TV?

thank you

Jamie

Hutchy · 23 Apr 2010 at 22:13

What about Cyberlinks PowerDVD ?

asim18 · 23 Apr 2010 at 22:15

If it's blu-ray rips, then MPC-HC is indisputably the best player.

Not sure about actual Blu-ray discs. But MPC can play those aswell.

Greenlizard0 · 24 Apr 2010 at 09:18

Yeap MPC HC with FFDshow is my preferred setup.

Smit · 24 Apr 2010 at 09:21

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

OpenToSuggestions · 24 Apr 2010 at 09:23

I just use VLC. It pixelates for a few seconds if you skip through bits but it is a lightweight player and best of all the video and sound stay in sync.

imamosher · 24 Apr 2010 at 09:25

ZoomPlayer for sure

AbsenceJam · 24 Apr 2010 at 11:35

Since you're specifying 1080p rather than just saying blu-ray I assume you're talking about your pirate stuff. In which case MPC-HC - http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-classic-home-cinema-x86-x64 . If it's actual Blu-rays then still MPC-HC unless you care about menus but you'll need AnyDVD HD too.

mglover070588 said:
I just use VLC. It pixelates for a few seconds if you skip through bits but it is a lightweight player and best of all the video and sound stay in sync.

VLC is awful and has no DXVA support so it's not exactly lightweight during playback.

Didzi · 24 Apr 2010 at 12:51

I use Media Player classic - home cinema, but just recently I have been using splash player which IMHO seems to be better at 1080p and is available for free download here

Stickman · 3 Jul 2010 at 16:47

Another Media Player Classic Home Cinema user here.... watched tons of 1080p stuff on it and can't fault it.

Coldfox · 3 Jul 2010 at 17:45

For Bluray disks use PowerDVD with hardware acceleration

bells · 3 Jul 2010 at 23:35

MPC but I don't think there is much of a difference between the players myself

1234543212345 · 4 Jul 2010 at 00:11

Another vote for MPC here.

Pablito · 4 Jul 2010 at 02:28

MPC all the way

perry081064 · 4 Jul 2010 at 02:54

tried a few in my time but keep coming back to MPC .. just does it all without probs.

Rainmaker · 4 Jul 2010 at 04:08

AbsenceJam said:
VLC is awful and has no DXVA support so it's not exactly lightweight during playback.

Wrong. VLC supports GPU acceleration under Windows and Linux for Nvidia cards now.

However, MPC-HC is still the daddy. :cool:

AbsenceJam · 4 Jul 2010 at 04:19

Rainmaker said:
Wrong. VLC supports GPU acceleration under Windows and Linux for Nvidia cards now. However, MPC-HC is still the daddy.

24th Apr 2010, 11:35.....

Rainmaker · 4 Jul 2010 at 04:37

AbsenceJam said:
24th Apr 2010, 11:35.....

Ah yeah. I didn't notice the thread had been necro'd.

Cold_And_Miserable · 4 Jul 2010 at 07:20

Players:
KMPlayer (32-bit only), MediaPlayerClassic, MPC: HomeCinema(64-bit), PowerDVD
Codecs:
CoreAVC (multicore, software), FFDShow (multicore, hardware), Cyberlink (hardware)

The best is probably MPC: HC. No other player can decode DTS-HD audio.
Unfortunately even MPC:HC cannot play all videos. I have some dodgy H264 videos that won't decode with CoreAVC/FFDShow and stutter when they do play.