Media player classic Vs VLC

[detritus]

On another note, I installed PowerDVD 8 this weekend, told MPC to use the Cyberlink H.264/AVC decoder and voila I now have hardware decode mkv file. Then thought I'd try Windows MediaPlayer. Up it pops saying it has no idea what this file is, but asks if I'd like to continue anyway. "Yes"... and now I can play mkv with hardware decode/accelleration in WMP. Me rikey!! 2% CPU usage while viewing an 11GB mkv

I'm doing this with Media Player Classic HomeCinema (a modified MPC) , it has a built in decoder for x264 that can offload to my video card. As you say its awesome to see full HD decoding with next to no CPU usage

 

[TheRift]

Well, the instructions I followed involved pointing MPC HD to the PowerDVD8 decoder. Is that what you did?

About to uninstall PowerDVD, etc, and see what happens.

 

[TheRift]

Ah, stupid me... I think it's just drivers from ATI that did it.
It sucks playing back an MKV in MPC HD. Fire it up in WMP and it is super smooth.

 

[detritus]

Odd, they play back smooth as silk for me, I'm running an 8800gt if it makes any difference.

 

[Zenbaas]

Yes...but this is on win7 64bit

 

[TheRift]

I'm enjoying win7 64bit... apart from the lack of 64-bit software.

 

[reddevilandy10]

VLC no doubt.

For XP and 7.