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2008-05-17, 02:32

Hi,

Media portal is great potential project. I have just installed it on a HTPC connected to a full hd plasma 50" plasma. But after playing some xvids, 720p/1080p mkvs and dvds, using the default player, I notice a load of banding in the picture and macro blocking and IMO the picture quality across the board looks terrible. I set up ffdshow to do post processing but it made only subtle improvements. I tested the same files with VLC the picture quality is way way better. Infact so much better even wife noticed

My system is q6600 overclocked, 4gb ram, I have tried multiple GPUs from 3850,3870 to 8800gt and well no difference.

So whats up?

2008-05-17, 02:32	#1 (permalink)
Unregistered Guest Posts: n/a	Default video player very bad quality Hi, Media portal is great potential project. I have just installed it on a HTPC connected to a full hd plasma 50" plasma. But after playing some xvids, 720p/1080p mkvs and dvds, using the default player, I notice a load of banding in the picture and macro blocking and IMO the picture quality across the board looks terrible. I set up ffdshow to do post processing but it made only subtle improvements. I tested the same files with VLC the picture quality is way way better. Infact so much better even wife noticed My system is q6600 overclocked, 4gb ram, I have tried multiple GPUs from 3850,3870 to 8800gt and well no difference. So whats up?