No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg . Any reason behind this?
nVidia driver?
We just released VLC 1.1.0
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Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#42> so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia® GPU, until ATI® fixes their drivers on Windows
I noticed that MPC-HC uses much less CPU (using the GPU I assume. Are there any tweaks to get VLC to do the same? Or is this quote above an indication that this just doesn't work well in ATI cards?
BTW, I'm using ATI hardware and I find CPU usage around 10-20% in MPC-HC vs ~50% in VLC. In spite all VLC's other awesome features, The CPU useage and resultant fan noise are a bummer.
I love the skins and plug in feature, btw.
Good work.
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#43> so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia® GPU, until ATI® fixes their drivers on Windows I noticed that MPC-HC uses much less CPU (using the GPU I assume. Are there any tweaks to get VLC to do the same? Or is this quote above an indication that this just doesn't work well in ATI cards? BTW, I'm using ATI hardware and I find CPU usage around 10-20% in MPC-HC vs ~50% in VLC. In spite…
Well, until ATI fixes its driver, you cannot do much.
Or until we found a work-around.
But we are not really Windows developers...
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#44I've wanted this feature for a while: to be able to just drag a subtitles file while VLC is playing a video and have VLC immediately start displaying subtitles from the new file. It's a great piece of software anyway! Congratulations on the latest release.
This is exactly how it works on Windows and Linux interface of VLC.
Heh, I suppose this tells you what OS I use. Any plans of bringing that feature over to OS X?
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
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#46The Mac OS X version is 64 bit, which means it'll work with 64-bit HandBrake. Previously you had to use an odd prerelease build. This is what I was waiting for!
cool! but still no hardware acceleration for OpenCL it looks like.
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#47No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg . Any reason behind this?
I use both VLC and MPC-HC on my machines. On the lower end computers I've noticed a large performance difference between the two: MPC-HC can crank out 720P on my 5year old laptops without hiccup, but VLC stutters all over the place.
I've heard some recommendations on how to configure VLC to be more responsive, but the fact remains MPC-HC performs better "out-of-the-box" than VLC.
I still keep VLC around for anything MPC-HC has trouble playing, however, as VLC truly does play just about anything if it is playable at all.
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#48No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg . Any reason behind this?
Do you have any of the sharpening shaders turned on in MPC? I'm not sure VLC has anything like that yet.
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#49VLC was my preferred player in Windows, and still remains my default in OS X. There is nary a format which the orange pylon cannot handle. Thanks to the VLC and FFMPEG guys for all the hard work!
As of 1.0.5 there were still some codecs missing, causing the annoying error message which ends in "There is nothing you can do about this" or something similar. It's not clear to me that this is something that can be fixed with code, though, sadly.
Re: We just released VLC 1.1.0
#50No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg . Any reason behind this?
Yeah, I use VLC strictly as a fallback. It's always MPC/mplayer first.
But VLC is invaluable for always showing something.