Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I use the KMPlayer. It has greater compatibility than VLC, has a nicer GUI (which was ceven better 2 versions ago), has a bazillion options that somehow never need to be touched, and has some correction stuff to recover bad chunks of a bad transcode on the fly. Also it plays 3D BluRays and is really un-demanding hardware wise.

I know ciso is generally a format used for console emulators, but I'm curious if there is a way to mount it on something like Virtual CloneDrive? If not is there a similar format?

I suppose I can do without ISO compression, but it seems like a great waste of space to have a bunch of uncompressed images. Assuming I only have 3 TB available (3000 GB, as disk makers lie) I could still do about 375 DVDs if they are all dual layer and fill up all of the space.

If you could do without the menus, you can save quite a biit of space, most of my movies i encode myself from the DVD and its about 400-600MB after encoding.

(10-02-2012, 06:30 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]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).

All i did was download K-Lite codec pack, it comes with MPC in the installation, after that, all i did was next-next-finish and i was playing my videos.

That's still two things I'd have to upgrade in the future: the codec pack and the media player itself. I prefer just downloading a Slackbuild (precompiled installable package just for Slackware Linux) and being done with any upgrades. My experience with MPC and CCCP left me pretty burned with having to deal with separate codec packs at all, especially when VLC played most everything with its built-in ones. Most media players on Linux have support for multiple codecs and formats built-in anyway, given they use libavcodec and libavformat respectively. Having to install codecs separately just seems so "Windows" in my mind.

Quote:That's still two things I'd have to upgrade in the future: the codec pack and the media player itself.

All you really need nowadays (for most formats) is Media Player Classic Home Cinema.
You don't need to install crappy codec-packs such as K-Lite.
If you do prefer codecpacks, CCCP is a good one.

Quote: I prefer just downloading a Slackbuild (precompiled installable package just for Slackware Linux) and being done with any upgrades.

The same is done anywhere else. Download the application and install it. (Or unrar it if it's standalone)
If you don't like to update your software; don't update.

Quote:My experience with MPC and CCCP left me pretty burned with having to deal with separate codec packs at all, especially when VLC played most everything with its built-in ones.

CCCP installs it all for you. The only thing you have to do is double-click on your movie and enjoy it.
You don't need to configure nor mess with any codec you get, unless you want to of course.

Quote:Having to install codecs separately just seems so "Windows" in my mind.

Linux does the same. You have to install libavcodec etc manually if you install a 'clean' distro.

The only other time i had to download a codec pack all over again was when people started encoding using high 10 video encoding which created pixel discoloration issues on certain frames if you didnt have the latest pack and this was all a matter of upgrading with the times like a new dolphin version fixing a bug and not necessarily a download i'd do all the time.

@Garteal - That's the thing, I don't want to have to install things like CCCP at all in addition to media players. I don't care if CCCP installs itself, it's one other step I have to take in order to properly enjoy my media. Fwiw, I am not opposed to making upgrades, I just don't want to have to potentially upgrade both the media player and the codecs. With VLC I only upgrade the media player, though I've only had to do this twice on two different computers. Like I said before, if MPC-HC works fine without codec packs, kudos to the devs. It's useless to me unless I'm going to run it under WINE, and there's no need to with VLC on my system.

Also, have a look at static binaries. There's no need for me to install libavcodec or libavformat because the executable in my Slackbuild already has those statically compiled thanks to the package maintainer. They had to have them installed in order to build it, all I have to do is run the program. This is what I mean by built-in.

Quote:That's still two things I'd have to upgrade in the future: the codec pack and the media player itself. I prefer just downloading a Slackbuild (precompiled installable package just for Slackware Linux) and being done with any upgrades. My experience with MPC and CCCP left me pretty burned with having to deal with separate codec packs at all, especially when VLC played most everything with its built-in ones. Most media players on Linux have support for multiple codecs and formats built-in anyway, given they use libavcodec and libavformat respectively. Having to install codecs separately just seems so "Windows" in my mind.

I don't know wtf you're talking about here. I installed MPC-HC and that was it. I've never needed any codec packs or updates to watch any video perfectly. There are other renderers, decoders, etc. that you can get that might improve quality over the defaults (it's very subjective though) but those are optional and completely unnecessary. Like Garteal said it comes with everything you need. Of course you would have known that if you tried it (and no your 6 year old version doesn't count because I'm pretty sure it was still in beta back then).

(10-03-2012, 03:32 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know wtf you're talking about here. I installed MPC-HC and that was it. I've never needed any codec packs or updates to watch any video perfectly. There are other renderers, decoders, etc. that you can get that might improve quality over the defaults (it's very subjective though) but those are optional and completely unnecessary. Like Garteal said it comes with everything you need. Of course you would have known that if you tried it (and no your 6 year old version doesn't count because I'm pretty sure it was still in beta back then).

Fwiw, don't mistake that I'm strictly speaking about MPC. Other media players don't have the necessary codec packs, hence things like CCCP and K-Lite are required. If a new feature gets added to the media player, you update it. If the codecs get updated, you have to update the codec packs as well. I don't want this. With MPC it appears to have a lot of codecs built in, based on what you're telling me. Many of the other players in my Windows experience haven't been so fortunate. Like I said (thrice already), good for the devs of MPC, but I've since switched to VLC a long time ago.

I specifically mentioned the fact that the version of MPC I used was 6 years old because it was meant 1) to give a sense of time from my last use and 2) to also indicate that I don't know much about the software in it's current state. It's been years since I've tried it (I've said that much before). Those past results aren't valid anymore, and that wasn't the point in my bringing it up. It's not like I had a real reason to try out MPC over the years anyway, since my family comp with Windows on it isn't always accessible, and VLC works for what I need with audio and video.