THE ONLY MEDIA CODEC YOU NEED ?

lixxus

lixxus

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Just quick question.

is FFDShow the only media codec i will need + media player home cinema


i use foobar for music and i would like a video player that can handle just pure video and any codec i through at it.

CCCP seems to be out of date and i like to stay in tune with daily/nightly releases over at www.xvidvideo.ru

what is the best setup guys
 
i use mpc-hc on it's own. i ditched ffdshow ages ago. i don't bother with the nightlies though. last time i tried them, the UI was pretty buggy.
 
I did have CCC but ditched it about a year for Shark007, which has everything you ever need. WMP for mkv the main one I got it for.

I do use mediamonkey as it supports flac. (Don't know if WMP does this with codecs)
 
Since all HD videos are encoded in h/x264 or xvid now, the only thing you need to install is the Divx Plus codec and ac3filter. Also it adds mkv support to WMP.
No more need for these crap codec packs that install every thing ever made.
 
stopper said:
Since all HD videos are encoded in h/x264 or xvid now, the only thing you need to install is the Divx Plus codec and ac3filter. Also it adds mkv support to WMP.
No more need for these crap codec packs that install every thing ever made.
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This + Windows 7.

DivX also enables streaming of .mkv files to the 360 - perfect!
 
philtorrens said:
The Shark Codec pack is far from crap mate :confused:
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It is unless you really do need the 10 different speaker configurations and all the other stuff it comes with.
The OP asked for the only codec you "need", shark is way OTT for that, so he has no need to fill his PC with a "ton of crap" (is what I meant) :)
Shark is very good for home cinema enthusiasts though.
 
Don't install a codec pack as you will probably only need to install a couple of codecs.

You can get away without installing a single codec if you go down the VLC/MPC-HC route.

My personal favourite is MPC-HC + CoreAVC.
 
If you want to do up-scaling, noise reduction, sharpening etc then ffdshow is pretty hard to beat - it can make the video look a lot better if its set-up properly. I think it can upmix stereo audio into surround-sound too which is handy if you have surround-sound.

If you do want to try ffdshow you want ffdshow-tryouts.

If you don't need all that that VLC handles most things, and I tend to use it more because the interface is a lot better than MPC-HC and the like with FFDShow (you can't use FFDShow in VLC).
 
Use MPC:HC without any external codecs, tell it to use EVR-Sync renderer and then you don't need any other external codecs, which also means you can use DXVA.

MPC:HC has it's own suite of filters, sharpening and thingies.

if you use external renderers and so on, it means you can't use DXVA which is annoying. we like dxva...

http://i.imgur.com/9AGWM.jpg

i've yet to find anything it doesn't play.
 
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