Media Player Classic HC - 1080p playback tweaks
Below is an excerpt from the article located here to assist in playing full 1080p content on your throw away pc with that basic graphics card.
- Download Media Player Classic Home Cinema (GPU accelerated) - click here.
- Download and install the latest Direct X - click here
- Make sure your graphics card drivers are up-to date.
First go to OPTIONS, and in the first field labeled PLAYER you might want to check 'launch files in Full screen'.
Then go to the field Playback > OUTPUT. Here we need to our Direct Show preference, and this is the most important task for you to setup.
Windows XP users, select Overlay Mixer, VMR7, VMR9 or VMR9 renderless
Windows Vista users, select EVR or EVR custom renderer
We have Windows Vista 32-bit installed, we select EVR Custom Preset, highlighted in bold that really should be your preference. Feel free to fool around with some of the other settings.
Small note, after each Direct Show change is is wise to select apply and then exit the program. Then startup again, that way for sure the new setting will be activated.
Sound - Go to Internal Filters. This can be a bit of a culprit. If you playback audio through the PC soundcard (multichannel) analog over speakers, you might just want to leave things as they are. I however use a SPDIF coaxal pass-through, the automatically selected embedded audio filters for DTS and AC3 where not properly in sync. I disabled them and just used a free to download software AC3 filter.
Your choice of course. Don't be afraid to play around with it. If it works fine, don't fool around with these settings.
Next to the DTS and AC3 settings I've highlighted Matroska. Matroska is the MKV / x.264 file container format we want to have accelerated. We strongly recommend you to check the Matroska flag, so that the internal filter will be used, key to x.264 GPU acceleration.
After a restart you should be all go with 1080p video running from your GPU.
Go to Play > Shader > Combine.
I advise you to select and combine the following shaders:
- Sharpen Complex or Edgde sharpen
- 16-235 -> 1-255 (will give you a nice dark screen)
- optionally de-interlace: but most movies are de-interlaced already
During playback you can press CTRL+P to enable and disable the pixel shaders.
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