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-=Antimatter=- said:
MPC-HC with the MPC Video Decoder or CoreAVC, plus AC3Filter. 10 minutes to setup, and great quality.
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Serious question...is coreAVC with any reasonable system (past year so) even remotely needed? I ditched mine since even the most modest HTPC mobo with integrated graphics burns through Avatar like fire through a dry forest on a windy day.
 
Trepidati0n said:
Serious question...is coreAVC with any reasonable system (past year so) even remotely needed? I ditched mine since even the most modest HTPC mobo with integrated graphics burns through Avatar like fire through a dry forest on a windy day.
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There's still plenty of lower end systems that cant. Think Atoms or low power systems that have CUDA support. Anyhow, I still think Core handles interlaced bitstreams better than LAV at the moment.
 
The need to spend money on coreAVC has passed. MPC-HC already offloads to your video card without any additional codecs. It supports DXVA with any supporting card. Playing my highest bit rate 1080p H.264 files only uses between 1% and 3% of my CPU with MPC-HC.
 
I wish I could get it to work too! I have tried to reinstall it and same results. Did you have to install any other programs when you installed MPC-HC, did you get the Directx end user runtime message?
 
I rip everything to MKV. I run MPC-HC on all four of my systems and it works flawlessly. I do have the DX runtime installed on all of them. But I don't have FFdshow, Haali, AC3filter, or any codec packs installed as they're not needed.

Unless you really want the preview thumbnail in explorer.
 
Turbosound said:
I wish I could get it to work too! I have tried to reinstall it and same results. Did you have to install any other programs when you installed MPC-HC, did you get the Directx end user runtime message?
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What version are you running?

I did get that message ages ago. Then I installed the DX runtime and never again.

If mpc-HC is your default player for video files, and you are running a current version and have checkmarked:

View->options->Playback->Fullscreen->"Launch files in full screen"

I see no reason it shouldn't immediately launch videos at full screen. It has never failed to do this for me.
 
Trepidati0n said:
Serious question...is coreAVC with any reasonable system (past year so) even remotely needed? I ditched mine since even the most modest HTPC mobo with integrated graphics burns through Avatar like fire through a dry forest on a windy day.
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Not really, which is why I use the MPC Video Decoder.
 
I'm using the most current version of MPC-HC and reinstalled the software. I checked the box to launch the files in fullscreen and went through all the options multiple times. For some reason when I open a mkv the windows taskbar is still there. I then have to select the vew, options and click fullscreen to make the taskbar dissappear. I know this may sound really simple but for that reason alone I like VLC better. If this is not how MPC-HC is suppose to work, please tell me what the problem could be.
 
What is the specific version number? The main page for MPC-HC is out of date.

Also when installing there is a checkbox to "reset settings", I would do that to make sure you haven't changed something, that is causing your wonky behavior.
 
I always use Windows Medica Player Classic that comes with the CCCP pack.

Its not as bloated as windows media player.
 
Turbosound said:
I checked the box to lauch the files in fullscreen. I don't know why its not working, that sucks.
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Sounds like write-permission issue with the configuration file. Does MPC-HC have a configuration file in Program Files or in AppData? If so, see if you have write permission to those folders and/or configuration file. Sounds like it's not saving your setting.
 
windows media center. Media Browser plugin in for movie management and eyecandy. MPC-HC as an external player for media browser. All seamless via a remote. No other codecs needed. Unless....you want HD audio. Then I also had to install and configure FFDshow.

My HTPC plays everything including bitstreaming DTS-MA HD/Dolby TrueHD. All from Windows Media Center.
 
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