Best video player?

[Boris]

@ mickey megabyte
Ah ok, i understand

 

[oidicle]

Guys here's a nice article: DivX Tech Preview: MKV on Windows 7 | DivX Labs - Everywhere Communication Occurs Community Happens about mkv on Windows 7, for those who don't really want to use a codec pack(which is kind of bloated with stuff you don't actually need) to play your videos, HD videos in particular....

I've uninstalled K-lite Mega Codec Pack and i'm now using Divx7 with KMPlayer..

 

[oidicle]

Optimized Video & Image Quality Settings

If you use KMPlayer full time, all the time, then this post is just for you and for those who haven't noticed this issue:

It happens with VLC, MPClassic Home Cinema and KMPlayer... It's the video quality, it's not optimized at the default settings, unlike Windows Media Player, that has sound and video quality at optimal settings by default.

Test it out, open an mp3 file with WMP, a file that has noticeable instruments such as bass and treble, and then open the same mp3 with KMP at the same volume level as WMP, and judge for yourself which one sounds better, do the same with a good quality video file. It'll help if you're using a decent sound system, at least a 2.1(because of the SubWoofer)instead of two standard stereo speakers.
I think you'll find that WMP sounds and displays much better, but that should change soon...

I'm going to show you how to optimize sound and video with KMPlayer, bellow are before and after shots with settings...

Before
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After
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In order to achieve this, open a video with KMPlayer, right click the video screen, choose options and select ''Advanced Menu'' to enable the advanced video menu:

You'll now see that there are 2 new options: "Video(Basic)" and "Video(Advanced)".

Follow the screen shot bellow to activate the setting, note that selecting any other setting besides the default will cause windows 7(I'm not sure about Vista) to revert to Windows Basic view every time you play a video with KMP....

and as for audio: Follow the screen shot and select "DirectSound: Digital Output(name of your sound card)"...

That should be it, you can try that test again and see.

So if you thought that KMP, VLC, MPClassic sounded good and displayed correctly, than you'll see that you can get even more out of those programs...

I don't recall the setting with VLC and it doesn't matter anyway because every time I fixed it, the setting wouldn't stick, it would just revert to the default upon closing it, that's why I gave up VLC as a player, they might have fixed that issue by now but I'm not going back to it, I'm fine with KMP.

As for MPClassic Users(I might as well just include the setting here): right click video screen, select shaders, and then the 16-235->0-255 [SD][HD]


Please remember, this is for those of you that didn't already know that configuration process....

 

[mickey megabyte]

also, be aware that your subtitles may not display under 'enhanced video renderer'.

sorry, i've just got a thing for subtitles...

 

[oidicle]

also, be aware that your subtitles may not display under 'enhanced video renderer'.

sorry, i've just got a thing for subtitles...

Is it? Strange, I haven't had an issue with that and I hope I don't...

 

[mickey megabyte]

yeah,my subtitles play up in enhanced mode - so i stay on vmr9 renderless.

then again, i'm new to kmp, having been a vlc man for years, so it may just be me fiddling too much with settings - there are so many to fiddle with in kmp!

 

[Antman]

I have used JetAudio for years. Love it.

 

[oidicle]

I have used JetAudio for years. Love it.

I haven't tried it, if it works for you then that's all that matters.

 

[Antman]

I haven't tried it, if it works for you then that's all that matters.

Oh, am I off topic?

 

[mickey megabyte]

Oh, am I off topic?

no, you're on topic, and that's all that matters.

 

[oidicle]

no, you're on topic, and that's all that matters.

:roflmaoude

 

[hybridfan]

Media Player Classic for me it has some nifty features like closing when finished playing a file or even shutting down, it also seems to have good resizing features compared to WMP. It still needs work on the playlist feature.

 

[RustyFalcon]

I like the Inmatrix Zoom Player for videos and Foobar 2000 for audio on my Win 7 RTM x64 installations. Wife uses WMP and Zune.

 

[Lebon14]

No problems with it here, at all.

My friend has Vista x64 and he said he had problems with it. He uninstalled and used VLC instead. :\

oh and btw, I use foobar2000 for audio

 

[dw96]

Miro

 

[Phill]

I like Media Player Classic

 

[Sassa]

Belive it or not, I'm still using MV2 Player...
Installed codecs:
DivX 7, XviD 1.2, AC3 Filter & CoreAVC 1.9.5
Everything is running great except aero turns off vhile video is playing...

 

[rightspin]

I just tried the KMPlayer and i've got to say that i'm impressed. With oidicles
render optimization there really is a difference in quality, compared to the MPC HC x64 i used before, which i cant set to 16-235->0-255 [SD][HD] shader btw, its grey for me idk. The "normalization" for audio is quite usefull for vidoes with not-so-good quality, the loud explosions wont wake my neighbours anymore cause the talking was rather whispering and i had to put the speakers on 100%. Unfortunatly, video and audio are not synch in "The International 1080p 264h Bluray rip". So there is still use for codecs and MPC.

 

[torrentg]

I use WMP Classic Home Cinema from Guru3D because it uses graphic card accel for .mkv files (h.264 and x.264 video). Otherwise, it's all PowerDVD for me which also can take advantage of accel for MPEG2, DivX, XviD and others.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Media-Player-Classic-Home-Cinema-1.2.1081.0_d2174.html

Here's the settings for WMP Classic:

 

[phantomgrave]

MPC Home Cinema / WMP12 with CCCP have always worked fine for me.