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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1230964" data-attributes="member: 82144">Mmmm, while I can understand your perspective given your observations, from a technical standpoint (and with the greatest respect) this just doesn't make sense. Haali is a splitter; LAV video is a decoder. They do completely different jobs so it doesn't make sense to compare them. However, you could compare:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Haali and LAV splitter</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">WMVideo Decoder DMO and LAV video decoder</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">VMR9 and EVR</li>
</ul>As I mentioned in my previous reply, I'd have chosen LAV splitter over Haali and EVR over VMR9. In particular, EVR video quality should be a little better than VMR9. This is easy to change [in MediaPortal Configuration] and check:<a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Video+Renderer" target="_blank">Video Renderer</a>The choice between WMVideo Decoder DMO and LAV video decoder seems to be fairly meaningless given that LAV video decoder settings -&gt; formats tab has the &quot;use Microsoft WMV9 DMO decoder for WMV3 and VC-1&quot; option which is enabled by default. In other words: LAV video normally uses WMVideo Decoder DMO internally. Therefore, all other things being equal, LAV video and WMVideo Decoder DMO performance should be identical. If it's not [identical], then something is off.In my first reply I asked whether you'd configured sensible settings for your codec selections. At this point I'd probably repeat the question. In particular, what have you selected for LAV video -&gt; video settings tab:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">hardware decoder to use</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">codecs for HW decoding</li>
</ul>(Screenshots of your LAV settings would be interesting.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1230964, member: 82144"] Mmmm, while I can understand your perspective given your observations, from a technical standpoint (and with the greatest respect) this just doesn't make sense. Haali is a splitter; LAV video is a decoder. They do completely different jobs so it doesn't make sense to compare them. However, you could compare: [LIST] [*]Haali and LAV splitter [*]WMVideo Decoder DMO and LAV video decoder [*]VMR9 and EVR [/LIST] As I mentioned in my previous reply, I'd have chosen LAV splitter over Haali and EVR over VMR9. In particular, EVR video quality should be a little better than VMR9. This is easy to change [in MediaPortal Configuration] and check: [URL="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/Video+Renderer"]Video Renderer[/URL] The choice between WMVideo Decoder DMO and LAV video decoder seems to be fairly meaningless given that LAV video decoder settings -> formats tab has the "use Microsoft WMV9 DMO decoder for WMV3 and VC-1" option which is enabled by default. In other words: LAV video normally uses WMVideo Decoder DMO internally. Therefore, all other things being equal, LAV video and WMVideo Decoder DMO performance should be identical. If it's not [identical], then something is off. In my first reply I asked whether you'd configured sensible settings for your codec selections. At this point I'd probably repeat the question. In particular, what have you selected for LAV video -> video settings tab: [LIST] [*]hardware decoder to use [*]codecs for HW decoding [/LIST] (Screenshots of your LAV settings would be interesting.) [/QUOTE]

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