Pixel Shaders in Mediaportal ? (1 Viewer)

[BlackdogZA]

Hi, presently using MPC-HC as an external player. I would prefer to use the mediaportal internal player. With MPC-HC, I have some pixel shaders enabled, in particular the colour conversion + some light sharpening. The sharpening, I can get from FFDshow but is there any way to get the colour conversion done ?

Thanks.

TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 1.02
MediaPortal Skin: Blue Wide
Windows Version: XP SP2
CPU Type: Intel E6300
HDD: WD 500Gb
Memory:
Motherboard: Asus P5B Wifi
Video Card: 8800GTS 320Mb
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: Lynx 2B
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card:
1. TV Card Type:
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Origen X15e
Cooling:
Power Supply: Cosair
Remote: MCE
TV: Pioner 506 XDE
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI HDMI

outdated specs for my pc up there..my current video card is an ATI 2600XT

 

[slickric21]

Hmmmmm, no responses yet.
I'm also wondering this.

I've just done some back to back tests of mediaportal with SAF, and MPC-HC with pixelshaders enabled (sharpening & 0-255) on various .mkvs that i have.
MPC-HC with pixelshaders wins hands down for PQ.

If only there was some way to enable them for mediaportal - or better still have complete control over them eg turn on and off during playback.

 

[pilehave]

If the pixel shader is available as a filter, you can add it to the post-processing part in the Video or TV part of MP Config. Or do you mean something different?

 

[tourettes]

Pixel shaders would be required to be supported on the rendering level code. Not possible with current MP1. MPII has had such support for log time

 

[slickric21]

ahh ok, thanks for getting back and letting us know this.

look forward to MPCII then in the future.

For the meantime then i'll have a playaround with using MPC-HC as an external player for my Movie files. The PQ enchancements the some of the pixelshaders bring make it too good to lose.
If only I could control MPC-HC with my remote once its been launced thou !!!

 

[Nulf]

ahh ok, thanks for getting back and letting us know this.

look forward to MPCII then in the future.

For the meantime then i'll have a playaround with using MPC-HC as an external player for my Movie files. The PQ enchancements the some of the pixelshaders bring make it too good to lose.
If only I could control MPC-HC with my remote once its been launced thou !!!

Try a program called intelliremote, i use it to control both mpc-hc and mp with my MCE-remote.
For example I have programmed a button to switch pixelshaders on/off.

 

[BlackdogZA]

Thanks folks. I had this nasty suspicion that I needed to use MPC-HC as an external player. The PQ is definitely a lot better with MPC-HC.

ahh ok, thanks for getting back and letting us know this.

look forward to MPCII then in the future.

For the meantime then i'll have a playaround with using MPC-HC as an external player for my Movie files. The PQ enchancements the some of the pixelshaders bring make it too good to lose.
If only I could control MPC-HC with my remote once its been launced thou !!!

I have an MCE-remote hooked up to Irtrans so control is possible without additional software.

 

[merzbow]

Pixel shaders would be required to be supported on the rendering level code. Not possible with current MP1. MPII has had such support for log time

Yes, I need this too. I can't get correct black levels without the 16-235->0-255 shader in MPC HC, and I can't use ffdshow post-processing because it takes too much CPU power (even on a brand-new Athlon, you need a Core i7). Thus I'm forced to use MPC-HC as an external player along with all the bugs that go along with that (quitting the player causes MediaPortal to relaunch it in a loop sometimes, for one).

 

[pilehave]

If you are on 1.1.0 Alpha there is a solution to the blacklevel: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...rnal-player-evr-60475/index23.html#post485166

This is in a test-fase but I run it on my laptop without any problems (with correct blacklevel).

Oh...and this is only a solution if you run Vista. If you run XP the blacklevel is fine in MP, if not something else in the chain is broken.

 

[merzbow]

If you are on 1.1.0 Alpha there is a solution to the blacklevel: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...rnal-player-evr-60475/index23.html#post485166

This is in a test-fase but I run it on my laptop without any problems (with correct blacklevel).

Oh...and this is only a solution if you run Vista. If you run XP the blacklevel is fine in MP, if not something else in the chain is broken.

I just noticed that giant thread (a big fail to Google for not popping it up). I'll try these suggestions.