A hands-on introduction for MPC-HC and madVR enthusiasts
A hands-on introduction for MPC-HC and madVR enthusiasts
You have a clean AMD configuration if you're looking for that. I followed the Coalgirls instructions for MPC-HC and madVR.
It's not a single configuration because updates will adjust certain aspects, requiring you to update usually one or two items each time. From past experience, the previous version with complete decoder setup in the README was problematic. This is quite a lot for some users, as mentioned by @Charger. My goal is to keep the process as straightforward and clean as possible, handling all adjustments automatically. Although madVR won't be perfect due to differences in system power, I'm confident MPC-HC saves to the registry or app data folder. In my case, the INI file worked better for me and others using the README. Essentially, I treat MPC-HC and internal filters as just two steps. I previously tried this for madVR but ran into issues, so I'm willing to give it another shot.
Because this has plenty of options as well. Actually im trying to think of options that this doesnt have that one might way and none come to mind. Other options that do stuff like this are zoom player and JRiver Media Center which both offer comparable flexibility. From my experience and for the purpose of watching video's MPC-HC has just been a great light weight clean simple solution. The whole point of this is that I go through all of the options and setup what I have determined over a number of years is a great optimized experience. This means that people dont have to do most of the research, testing, and troubleshooting. The ini by no means locks the settings so you can go and change whatever you wish. I dont know what you would want to change but hey if someone finds a setting they think improve the experience let em know and ill look into it. Also you have to remember the reason that people stick with stuff like VLC. To compete with that I would like to make this as simple and straight forward as I can. This is actually the second crack I have taken at writing a guide for this. The second go thrown out because before it was completed MPC-HC integrated LAV significantly shortening the process.