Problems with image quality (2 Viewers)

[archimede]

Langers
Unfortunately I cannot help you with other media-center SWs, as recently I haven't tried any of them.
I really like MP and I'd like to keep using it

BTW, mean while I have completely reinstalled XP with all newest drivers and MP.
It seems that the problem is now disappeared.
I have set the color depth to 32bits and the color to RGB (color profile is sRGB).

 

[Langers]

Colour Banding...

Hi guys,

Thanks for the replies. I have set my colour depth to 32bit, I could have sworn I set it to 32 when I reloaded my PC a few months ago. Maybe updating to the latest Catalyst reset it, I know it changed my res and scaling options. Anyway, that seems to have improved things, I have also changed to the YCbCr 4:4:4 colour profile as suggested by Grubi, thanks mate. I will let you know if this further improves it.

Another thing I found the other day (not sure if you guys already know, thought I'd share the wealth anyway) was a guide to upscaling using FFDShow, I created a separate up scaling profile and now I can force DVD rips and episodes of Lost etc to 1280x720 with no blocky effects or other graphical glitches!

Anyway cheers guys, I'm happy that I get to keep using MP

BTW - J River Media Center turned out to be ok, still prefer MP. J River has some nice menu animations once you switch to Theatre view, the default view looks similar to WinAmp. Its just not as configurable, MP pwns it!

Langers

 

[archimede]

Langers,
do you have a link for that guide (evt in PM)? Thanks.
I found several, but up to now none of them was really satisfying.
I am currently using the Cyberlink decoder (7.3 Ultra) in overlay @ 1920x1080. The result is not bad

 

[Langers]

Upscaling using FFDShow

Archimede, heres that link,

ProjectHTPC - HTPC Software Advice

Let me know how you get on, it apparently works for DVD (as the guide describes) but I can only get it to work for avi and not DVD yet. At the moment this doesn't really bother me as I tend to watch most films as a download, haven't watched any of my DVDs for ages now!

Langers