• How do I open an MKV File?
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As stated in the thread title. Is there a special type of player I need?
Windows Media Player Classic or VLC.
Use VLC [url]http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[/url] [editline].[/editline] My my at the disagrees. I like VLC because is it light, simple, does not require hunting for codecs while playing almost anything you can throw at it. Now I don't use it for a music library so I can't comment on that aspect as I use it primarily for videos.
Thanks guys!
[url=http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/]MPC-HC[/url] + [url=http://www.cccp-project.net/download.php?type=cccp]CCCP[/url] Don't use VLC.
VLC Don't use MPC-HC + CCCP. Now how about you explain why you think he shouldn't use VLC and then I'll defend my point of view?
[QUOTE=nikomo;28702087]VLC Don't use MPC-HC + CCCP. Now how about you explain why you think he shouldn't use VLC and then I'll defend my point of view?[/QUOTE] CCCP works just fine, and the reason I use it is because I like having one application for video,music,etc.
And that's why I use VLC. It just magically works.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28702217]And that's why I use VLC. It just magically works.[/QUOTE] Meh, I hate how it looks, and it's hard to keep track of 5000+ songs in a library in VLC.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28702217]And that's why I use VLC. It just magically works.[/QUOTE] ffdshow + any media player (the simplest and most VLC-like setup being MPC-HC + CCCP) is the exact same, except with noticeably better quality (especially with madVR etc.) and more efficient codecs.
VLC is fine and doesn't require codec packs and such, I find it the easiest and quickest. [editline]19th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=QuikKill;28702237]Meh, I hate how it looks, and it's hard to keep track of 5000+ songs in a library in VLC.[/QUOTE] then don't use VIDEO lan client for music
And you're not going to be looking at the damn program anyways, you fullscreen it on another monitor and look at the damn movie. Or connect your computer to a TV, drag it over to the TV screen, fullscreen it, play, enjoy movie. Preferably with company.
I don't use CCC with MPC-HC, I use the K-lite mega codec pack and it comes bundled with MPC-HC. It's got more codecs the anything else I've run across, and beats VLC outta the park for playing [i]ANYTHING[/i] I throw at it. Also having thumbnail generation for formats like flv and mkv is really nice.
windows media player with some codecs i downloaded... the windows 7 one is fine...
[QUOTE=Satane;28705648]VLC because it doesn't need codecs and plays everything.[/QUOTE] It does use codecs, the ones it "doesn't need" are embeded.
I use MPC, it plays everything and I like it more than VLC for some reason...
maybe there was a setting that I needed to mess with, but videos in MPC always looked better than VLC for me
[QUOTE=Scientwist;28705734]It does use codecs, the ones it "doesn't need" are embeded.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure he meant you don't have to install any codecs separately.
[QUOTE=Jake_Steel;28701890]Use VLC [url]http://www.videolan.org/vlc/[/url] [editline].[/editline] My my at the disagrees. I like VLC because is it light, simple, does not require hunting for codecs while playing almost anything you can throw at it. Now I don't use it for a music library so I can't comment on that aspect as I use it primarily for videos.[/QUOTE] Do not use VLC. It's a piece of shit. Terrible internal filters (a lot of quality loss, especially noticeable in HD movies), lack of support, washed out colours, etc etc CCCP and MPC
Only thing I noticed with VLC is that the video is brighter and less colourful than MPC-HC, which is easily adjusted (brightness and saturation settings respectively). As for upscaling video, try VLC's post-processing feature if you find the quality isn't as good. I tried MPC-HC with the CCCP after we had this argument last time and everything lagged. 720p video ran like shit while I could easily run 1080p BD-rips in VLC. I searched for hours for solutions and found nothing, but of course your mileage will vary. [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] Rusty can you provide screenshots that prove this quality loss in HD movies because I've never seen it
internal codecs vs ffdshow (mpc) [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/screenshots/The%20Shining.m2ts_snapshot_01.13.50_%5B2010.07.16_21.50.24%5D.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1482927/screenshots/The%20Shining.m2ts_snapshot_01.13.50_%5B2010.11.07_20.41.20%5D.png[/img_thumb] [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] compare the grain especially [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeke129;28706684]Only thing I noticed with VLC is that the video is brighter and less colourful than MPC-HC, which is easily adjusted (brightness and saturation settings respectively). As for upscaling video, try VLC's post-processing feature if you find the quality isn't as good. I tried MPC-HC with the CCCP after we had this argument last time and everything lagged. 720p video ran like shit while I could easily run 1080p BD-rips in VLC. I searched for hours for solutions and found nothing, but of course your mileage will vary. [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] Rusty can you provide screenshots that prove this quality loss in HD movies because I've never seen it[/QUOTE] There's a reason it lagged, because it was better quality. But usually a fix for this is going into ffdshows video settings and changing the h264 and vc1 codecs to whatever they're not currently on.
First one was taken in VLC? Do you have post-processing off?
no it wasn't because i don't have VLC installed, that's MPC's internal codecs, but the point is the same. i've used VLC before and the result was incredibly similar, as is always the case with internal codecs [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] and yea pp was off
While we're at it, Media Center... yes/no?
h264 with interal codecs isn't nearly as bad as vc1 though, that codec suffers greatly but last time i checked VLC didn't even support vc1 (and gave me a little message saying it likely never will), so i won't even be able to OPEN the shining in vlc [editline]20th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=deggie;28706809]While we're at it, Media Center... yes/no?[/QUOTE] nah
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28706813]h264 with interal codecs isn't nearly as bad as vc1 though, that codec suffers greatly but last time i checked VLC didn't even support vc1 (and gave me a little message saying it likely never will), so i won't even be able to OPEN the shining in vlc[/QUOTE] I didn't know off-hand but I googled it and it appears to have at least "partial" support, whatever that means. VC1 is used commonly for blu-ray movies, right? I've played several in VLC without issue.
if they were movies you bought, they're either h264 or VC1 (most commonly) if they were downloaded (and mkv's) then they're all h264 [editline]21st March 2011[/editline] partial support probably means it just plays the audio (which it does (which has nothing to do with vc1 anyway))
Going to try MPC now.
Use ffplay like a [I]man[/I]
[QUOTE=Rusty100;28708431]if they were movies you bought, they're either h264 or VC1 (most commonly) [/QUOTE] They were rented, played directly off the disk. Played probably 20 or 30 in VLC without issue. Do you know of any trailers or something encoded in VC1 that I can test with? Next time I have a blu-ray movie I'll try MPC-HD and CCCP again
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