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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1241367" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.In MP2 you can choose what codec to use, opposite to Plex and Kodi for example. Default codec is set to LAVF for everything. Kodi and Plex don't use the Windows DirectShow system so you can not change or extend the codecs to use... They are using FFDShow. FFDshow is more forgiven regarding corrupt videos than anything else but it has a visible lower playback quality than DirectShow, at least on Windows systems. For Kodi I always would prefer a Linux based system as here the PQ is much better. And FFDShow needs different compile options depending on the possible features (e.g. bitstreaming of DTS-HD Master or Dolby Atmos) you want to have. If the release you use don't have those features you've lost.. With DS you can do much more fine tuning so in the end it is the better way. But DS needs not too much damaged videos to work. 80 - 90% of all videos offered somewhere to download (and the same value is valid for TV recordings) are more or less corrupt. Most of them are nevertheless playable even with DS. Nearly all of them can be fixed if needed. VLC, Kodi and so on are playing the more damaged videos too, but they are scarifying picture quality for easiness.  If you want to test if there is an issue with MP (no matter if MP1 or MP2) than you need to test the video with WMP or MPC-HC or similar DS players using the same codecs as set in MP. If a video is playing flawlessly in those players but not in MP, then there is something wrong on the MP side... That's one of the reasons why I never use any recorded or downloaded videos without prepare them before using. This way I never have such issues in no program, whatever I try. If a video is too faulty I discover this during preparation and can try to repair or replace it with a better one. If this is not possible, I dump it and wait until a better version is available.</blockquote>

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