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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 812954" data-attributes="member: 18896">I personally prefer the codec installation as outlined in the link in my signature. It mainly relies on the MPC-HC Standalone codecs, which carry the benefit that debugging codec issues is very easy. If any file plays with the MPC-HC application (which has all of the same codecs internal), then it will play inside MediaPortal.The MPC-HC application has checkboxes to enable/disable the internal filters, so with all those checkboxes disabled it would work the exact same way as MediaPortal and rely on the DirectShow based MPC-HC standalone codecs, so it becomes very easy to figure out future codec issues. Because trust me, it's not a matter of 'if', but 'when' codec issues will appear as new encoding settings are used.However on powerful systems I prefer to add madVR to the mix (MPC-HC is compatible with it), because it gives the highest possible output quality that no other codec gets close to.madVR features:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">high quality chroma upsampling</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">high quality scaling (bicubic, mitchell, lanczos, spline etc)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">high quality YCbCr -&gt; RGB conversion</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">gamut &amp; gamma correction for display calibration</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">full 16bit processing queue</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">final 16bit processing result is dithered down to RGB output bitdepth</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">bypasses graphics card's video (damage) algorithms</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">all work is done via GPU shaders</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">no shortcuts, highest quality has priority over anything else</li>
</ul>The difference is spectacular on the right kind of hardware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 812954, member: 18896"] I personally prefer the codec installation as outlined in the link in my signature. It mainly relies on the MPC-HC Standalone codecs, which carry the benefit that debugging codec issues is very easy. If any file plays with the MPC-HC application (which has all of the same codecs internal), then it will play inside MediaPortal. The MPC-HC application has checkboxes to enable/disable the internal filters, so with all those checkboxes disabled it would work the exact same way as MediaPortal and rely on the DirectShow based MPC-HC standalone codecs, so it becomes very easy to figure out future codec issues. Because trust me, it's not a matter of 'if', but 'when' codec issues will appear as new encoding settings are used. However on powerful systems I prefer to add madVR to the mix (MPC-HC is compatible with it), because it gives the highest possible output quality that no other codec gets close to. madVR features: [list] [*]high quality chroma upsampling [*]high quality scaling (bicubic, mitchell, lanczos, spline etc) [*]high quality YCbCr -> RGB conversion [*]gamut & gamma correction for display calibration [*]full 16bit processing queue [*]final 16bit processing result is dithered down to RGB output bitdepth [*]bypasses graphics card's video (damage) algorithms [*]all work is done via GPU shaders [*]no shortcuts, highest quality has priority over anything else [/list] The difference is spectacular on the right kind of hardware. [/QUOTE]

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