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<blockquote data-quote="pannivas" data-source="post: 174034" data-attributes="member: 23174"><p>First of all don’t get me wrong for my post below. I love MP and I don’t see myself ever using something else other than MP for my HTPC. I appreciate and I am grateful for all the hard work that was done and is still being done on MP. My words below are merely suggestions that will probably make MP incorporate a better Media player engine. Some of them might not even make sense to a windows application developer but some maybe so I will just post them.</p><p></p><p>By Better I mean better video/audio playback (UI is amazing). If you compare the MP media player with lets say Media Player Classic (MPC) the Media Portal (MP) player is inferior to MPC. With MPC you get a much better Picture Quality (PQ), Sound, the out of the box playback of any video/audio codec and custom use of external codecs for more advanced and demanding users.</p><p></p><p>The better PQ and sound was not all that noticeable with SD movies but now with HD movies which are much more demanding and have a better PQ/sound you can easily see the PQ and Sound quality differences between MP and MPC. Many times you get choppy video playback, bad blocks and complete crashes of MP when using various codecs with various containers. </p><p>a) mkv with x264 codec and ac3 or DTS</p><p>b) ts with mpeg2 or h264 codec and ac3 or DTS</p><p>c) xvid with x264 and ac3 or DTS</p><p></p><p> It is not the problem of the video file because if you open the exact same file on the exact same computer with MPC you get an amazing PQ and sound with no problems at all.</p><p></p><p>By incorporating something like MPC (video/audio playback functionality and settings) into MP and using MP UI then you get an amazing video/audio player and a lot of trouble free codec support, because MPC plays pretty much any codec out of the box, and if not then there is an easy way to specify your own external codecs in case you don’t get a video output or you prefer something else.</p><p></p><p>I am not a windows application developer so maybe this doesn’t make any sense to MP developers but maybe it does so I will just say it.</p><p></p><p>Since MPC is open source would it be ever possible to incorporate MPC’s functionality and settings into MP and keep the MP superior UI?</p><p>I was thinking if it’s possible to have all those great and easy settings that MPC has into MP Configuration and have a great video/audio player (MPC like) with a great UI (MP like). That in my opinion will make the perfect media player for Media Portal and I think that many users will be happy of such a big change.</p><p></p><p>I maybe wrong but the MP media player has not received any major updates for a long time now. Support for High-Def playback is nicely incorporated on the TV engine but I do not see it on the media player engine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pannivas, post: 174034, member: 23174"] First of all don’t get me wrong for my post below. I love MP and I don’t see myself ever using something else other than MP for my HTPC. I appreciate and I am grateful for all the hard work that was done and is still being done on MP. My words below are merely suggestions that will probably make MP incorporate a better Media player engine. Some of them might not even make sense to a windows application developer but some maybe so I will just post them. By Better I mean better video/audio playback (UI is amazing). If you compare the MP media player with lets say Media Player Classic (MPC) the Media Portal (MP) player is inferior to MPC. With MPC you get a much better Picture Quality (PQ), Sound, the out of the box playback of any video/audio codec and custom use of external codecs for more advanced and demanding users. The better PQ and sound was not all that noticeable with SD movies but now with HD movies which are much more demanding and have a better PQ/sound you can easily see the PQ and Sound quality differences between MP and MPC. Many times you get choppy video playback, bad blocks and complete crashes of MP when using various codecs with various containers. a) mkv with x264 codec and ac3 or DTS b) ts with mpeg2 or h264 codec and ac3 or DTS c) xvid with x264 and ac3 or DTS It is not the problem of the video file because if you open the exact same file on the exact same computer with MPC you get an amazing PQ and sound with no problems at all. By incorporating something like MPC (video/audio playback functionality and settings) into MP and using MP UI then you get an amazing video/audio player and a lot of trouble free codec support, because MPC plays pretty much any codec out of the box, and if not then there is an easy way to specify your own external codecs in case you don’t get a video output or you prefer something else. I am not a windows application developer so maybe this doesn’t make any sense to MP developers but maybe it does so I will just say it. Since MPC is open source would it be ever possible to incorporate MPC’s functionality and settings into MP and keep the MP superior UI? I was thinking if it’s possible to have all those great and easy settings that MPC has into MP Configuration and have a great video/audio player (MPC like) with a great UI (MP like). That in my opinion will make the perfect media player for Media Portal and I think that many users will be happy of such a big change. I maybe wrong but the MP media player has not received any major updates for a long time now. Support for High-Def playback is nicely incorporated on the TV engine but I do not see it on the media player engine. [/QUOTE]
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