Movie Codecs and Help..

[setankiller]

i have download the movie with free download manager, and i instal cccp, any k-lite codec, when i play avi and wmv file, movie doesn't work. i use media player, gom, media player clasic,

can u help me? thx

[techie]

Try the kLite MegaPack and install it with "A lot of stuff"
(love the way they describe technically how to install everything)
I use the same and MPC (classic) plays everything from asf/wmv to mpg, vob and avi, flv and just about everything else.

Assuming you're on Windows XP.
For windows 7 you need to look for a windows 7 specific codec pack.
And for Windows Vista I think you should consider a new O/S first :)

[isityours]

as a general rule, codec 'packs' (CCCP/klite etc) are designed to be installed and used either or. codecs sometimes dont play nice so i suggest that when you have playback issues, uninstall your codecs and dl the latest version of your preferred pack and reinstall it. if it doesnt work then uninstall the pack that didnt work and try another one. installing different packs over each other isnt likely to solve your problems.
i have found that the packs i used under vista/xp work fine with 7 too. 64 is different when you want 64 programs to use codecs but 32 programs need their regular codecs to do their thing.
it is also essential to reboot your computer at every step (after uninstalling and after installing).

[souwen]

Originally Posted by techie

Assuming you're on Windows XP.
For windows 7 you need to look for a windows 7 specific codec pack.
And for Windows Vista I think you should consider a new O/S first :)

Windows Vista is as stable as XP now if you patch the Microsoft updates. XP was hated on by people when it first got released as well, took a couple of Service pack updates for it to get stable, Vista is (or rather, has) went through the same situation.. But of course, this is just my humble opinion. No offense meant to anyone believing/experiencing otherwise.

Back to topic..

@setankiller - Maybe the video file is corrupted? Do you get any error messages when trying to play it unsuccessfully? Have you tried playing this video on other computers?

[zecterx2]

Hopefully this will solve my problem with jav video in WMA thaT wont allow you to skip , which is a pain =)

[granatnik]

I have trouble with MPC after moving to 64-bit of win7.

As I did a clean install, I was able to do a fresh install for players too. I decided to follow guides linked in U15 section, namely:

http://www.bishoujoproject.com/mpc-hc-playback-guide/
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1357375/advanced-mpc-hc-setup-guide

I went with first, second is mostly similar. No uninstalling, downloads - checked, installation order - checked, settings - checked. All seems OK.

I try to play 1440 TS - slideshow. 720 MP4 - even worse slideshow. All use of CPU (including unrelated processes) doesn't even sum to one core, also drive and file itself is OK, what is shown by so-bashed VLC playing stuff smoothly.

What could go wrong?

(VLC will be of use for some time now, though I want MPC more...)

[SamKook]

I'm not sure I understand your problem properly, but I think you're experiencing non-smooth playback from what I understood.

It's most likely due to your madVR settings for chroma and luma upscaling being too high for you graphic card. Since madVR does it's scaling using the graphic card, it's normal that your CPU doesn't go very high, but the graphic card must be at 100%.
You can confirm the problem by pressing ctrl+j while a video is playing and checking if you have any dropped frames in the text that appears on the left(press ctrl+j again to make it disappear).
If you do have some, you need to select a less demanding algorithm. They are pretty much in order from less demanding on top to more demanding at the bottom so choose one that doesn't give you dropped frames and looks best to your eyes since they all have their strength and weaknesses so there's not really a best one(except maybe for jinc 3 taps, but that's extremely demanding so don't even think about it).
As for downscaling, I'd use catmul-rom with AR and linear light checked if your GPU(Graphical processing unit also know as your graphic card) can support it.

That guide is a bit dated so it's not up-to-date will all the new available options since madVR has had a lot of development recently.

If you're worried about the quality of the video by choosing less intensive algorithms, don't be since even the worst madVR offers is better than what the other renderer use.

[granatnik]

Thanks; I've changed all three up/downscalings to Nearest Neighbor and at least plays "continuously", though with really inferior quality (compared to win7 32bit install) and frames still dropped (not nearly all as before, but like one in two or two in three). Still not bearable, but at least suggests direction. Are there newer and reasonable guides?

[SamKook]

There shoudn't be any difference in speed between win 7 32bit and win 7 64bit for video playback in your case since madVR is 32bit only so only 32bit application can be used. There must be something you did wrong somewhere.

I had forgotten that madVR also had the nearest neighbor option which is what most(if not all) other renderers use since it's extremely fast so it shouldn't be slower than other renderers at that point. You should even be able to use bilinear without problems unless you have a really really old computer.

The first guide you listed is pretty good except that it doesn't mention the newest additions to madVR, but it wouldn't help you to get faster video decoding. You're better off trying to understand what it ask you to install and decide for yourself what you need or what looks best.

To help you, I would need more information like what are your CPU and GPU model number(for example I have an i7-2600k for CPU and GTX 560ti for GPU) or if you don't know, what the brand and model of your computer is.
I would also need to know what is listed when you play a video, right-click the image and go in filters.

The internal subtitle renderer the guide tells you to use is much more demanding than XY-vsfilter so disabling it and installing XY would save some CPU, but from what you were saying, it didn't look like your CPU was used much so that shouldn't be a problem.

[granatnik]

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz

in Filters menu:

Default DirectSound
madVR
Audio Switcher (with menu)
LAV Video
LAV Audio
LAV Splitter Source (with menu)