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<blockquote data-quote="vuego" data-source="post: 306715" data-attributes="member: 23741">When playing xvid:s, Windows' internal merit system is used. Not MediaPortal's codec settings. My guess is that ffdshow was actually used for your xvid files even before adding it as Postprocessing. When playing a video file all filters that can handle the format (you might have both xvid and ffdshow installed) will be scanned and the filter with the highest merit will be used. You can lower ffdshow's merit in Start Menu/ffdshow/Video decoder configuration/DirectShow control/Merit.If you want more control of each filters' merit you can use <a href="http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/tools/monogram-graphstudio/" target="_blank">GraphStudio</a>. It'll show you how video files are rendered and allow you to set a specific merit for filters.&quot;if you use ffdshow as main codec you do not need to add it in the movies section&quot;ffdshow is a video decoder and a postprocessing filter. If you're already using it as video decoder there's not much sense in adding it as postprocessing. However you might want to use xvid as video decoder but still use ffdshow to display subtitles, change gamma, denoise or any other ffdshow setting. Then you should add ffdshow as postprocessor and leave xvid as video decoder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vuego, post: 306715, member: 23741"] When playing xvid:s, Windows' internal merit system is used. Not MediaPortal's codec settings. My guess is that ffdshow was actually used for your xvid files even before adding it as Postprocessing. When playing a video file all filters that can handle the format (you might have both xvid and ffdshow installed) will be scanned and the filter with the highest merit will be used. You can lower ffdshow's merit in Start Menu/ffdshow/Video decoder configuration/DirectShow control/Merit. If you want more control of each filters' merit you can use [URL="http://blog.monogram.sk/janos/tools/monogram-graphstudio/"]GraphStudio[/URL]. It'll show you how video files are rendered and allow you to set a specific merit for filters. "if you use ffdshow as main codec you do not need to add it in the movies section" ffdshow is a video decoder [U]and[/U] a postprocessing filter. If you're already using it as video decoder there's not much sense in adding it as postprocessing. However you might want to use xvid as video decoder but still use ffdshow to display subtitles, change gamma, denoise or any other ffdshow setting. Then you should add ffdshow as postprocessor and leave xvid as video decoder. [/QUOTE]

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