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Look up media player classic homecinema. Look up LAV decoder. Look up madVR renderer. Or better yet use them yourself for awhile. That should provide all the explanation you need.

These three tools are pretty much considered the golden standard now by htpc enthusiasts. Anandtech and guru3d both use them for their htpc reviews (mainly because if your htpc can handle these it can handle pretty much anything that it will need to do).

VLC was unable to play files properly that used ordered chaptering, the last time i tried anyways

Let's see, last time I played a file with ordered chaptering was, around May? It worked out fine, using 2.0. It was one of those pesky HD MKVs that used to give me trouble, but I think I know what you're talking about. The screen on earlier versions would tear and degrade for several seconds after each chapter. Seems to be rectified, as far as I can tell.

Just get MPC-HC, it's hands down the best video player out there by far.

For others maybe. For me, like I said, I have a media file that needs to be played, I click it, VLC plays it. That's all I want. Other people have more sophisticated needs however. Tried MPC-HC a while ago (like 6+ years ago) but at the time VLC played something better without having to mess around with codecs, so I've since switched :p

As a programmer, shouldnt 'messing around' with stuff be fun?

(10-02-2012, 05:16 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]As a programmer, shouldnt 'messing around' wituff be stuff be fun?

Depends on what it is. Emulators, games, my own stuff, sure, but when I just wanna watch MLP episodes ripped from YouTube offline, I don't want to have to spend any time whatsoever getting stuff to work right the first time.

(10-02-2012, 05:27 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-02-2012, 05:16 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]As a programmer, shouldnt 'messing around' with stuff be fun?

Depends on what it is. Emulators, games, my own stuff, sure, but when I just wanna watch MLP episodes ripped from YouTube offline, I don't want to have to spend any time whatsoever getting stuff to work right the first time.

MPC dosent really require you to tinker with the settings, when i first started i used the default codecs and settings without problems, it was later on when i suddenly tried a different player with an audio enhancer did i begin to mess around with the codecs trying to get the best sound or something close to it. What exact problems did you have with MPC?

It's not so much the settings I'm opposed to tinkering with, it's the need to have to download codec packs just to play certain formats that I don't like. I'd rather have that capability built-in to the application (one less thing to install, one less thing to manage). VLC does that for me on Linux. If MPC has that ability too, kudos to their dev team, but it's not like I'm going to install WINE just to switch.

My problems were with some pretty old video files that someone decided it would be great to encode them in some weird format (I forget which, remember this was years ago). The container was MKV but I don't recall what the actual encoding was. I tried MPC but I still got frequent tearing and color degrading whenever there was a scene change, this was after installing CCCP too. At the time, VLC played them just fine on my laptop.

I read up on MPC-HC a little bit (I can't do much here on school computers), and it looks interesting. I'll probably use it (whether through WINE on Linux or just on Windows).

I want to have exact rips of the discs for all of my movies (menus and all), but that will take up SO MUCH space it is ridiculous. I have about 8 TB of storage available (between internal and external drives), but I still don't think it would work well because I have well over 100 DVDs, probably 200. Do you guys think ciso would help with this at all or do I have no hope?