VLC 1.1 including hardware acceleration

Why don't you just download and install it? It uninstalls the previous version anyway.

DXVA2 support is good especially VC-1 because MPC-HC still has issues with some MKV-HD files encoded using VC-1.

I use both players in DXVA now exclusively.
 
Finally! :D I love MPC-HC but as Khaaan! says it does struggle occasionally with certain files. Two quick questions for those in the know, if you don't mind:

* Will GPU acceleration work on Linux and OS X as well as Windows, or is it DXVA proper (Windows only) rather than a different solution?

* Can anyone remind me how to fix the colour rendition in VLC? Its colours (especially blacks) are very washed out compared to MPC-HC and WMP. I remember a post on here showing which option to enable/disable to put the colours back to normal. Here's what mine looks like atm (proper black from my desktop on the left, a VLC "black" on the right).

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IIRC it was something to do with the YUV > RGB conversion but toggling that option didn't seem to work? TIA. :)
 
Video options in VLC, disable hardware YUV to fix the grey "black" issue.
 
To answer my own question about the hardware acceleration. It seems that it works on both Windows and Linux (yay!), but only for those using Nvidia hardware at the moment. Still no acceleration for OS X, but Linux is the breaker for me.

Winrar! \:D/
 
Conrad11 said:
So it only has hardware acceleration for Nvidia hardware?
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Yeah, it seems so. On the plus side it works on Windows (DXVA) and Linux (VAAPI) so that's brilliant news imho. Just gotta wait for the repos to catch up though, as manually upgrading VLC 1.0 to 1.1 in Linux can break existing apps that depend on it. I just played a 20GB 1080p MKV using VLC and CPU usage barely hit 2%. :)
 
MPC-HC likely is better overall, for now. But a little choice never hurts - especially as MPC-HC isn't a Linux capable client. I've used MPC-HC for years now, updating almost daily via the link you provided.

However that doesn't detract from VLC's achievement, especially given it'll work on the Linux platform. They basically just took away the final reason I had for running a Windows box. :D
 
Yeah should do. Just disable the MPC-HC internal decoders or in the external filters section in MPC options give FFDSHOW video decoders preferred priority so MPC uses those first, internal second.

FFDShow DXVA works fine for most stuff BUT sometimes seems a bit blocky during seeking and needs a second or two to resync. A better option is to install the DIVX codec which now supports DXVA (with VC-1).
 
It's empty because it's not been populated yet :p

Click the add button (it will list all installed system codecs), add the ffdshow video decoders and set them to "Prefer".

Everything else to be left as default. Now MPC will use FFDshow first even if the internal filters are left enabled.

You will know it's working because DXVA will be shown on bottom left MPC window while playing and right click > filters when playing you will see the FFDshow video decoder being used as the video filter.
 
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