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I use Windows Media Center on my machine so I'll be pretty irritated if it automatically upgrades - MS removed it in Windows 10.
by untog 11y ago
I use Windows Media Center on my machine so I'll be pretty irritated if it automatically upgrades - MS removed it in Windows 10.
- swampthinker 11y agoWhy not VLC?
- untog 11y agoI think you're thinking of Media Player, not Media Center. Media Center is a whole DVR package, consumes TV streams, TV guide data, recordings, can be connected to an Xbox 360... and so on.
- swampthinker 11y agoAh, gotcha.
- Nadya 11y agoWhile it comes down to some level of personal preference - VLC is not faithful to source material in regards to color balance/contrast and this is apparent in scenes with shadows. VLC will have a "washed out" look. Some users prefer that "washed out" look though (for scenes with very heavy shadows it often does look aesthetically better) but others prefer faithfulness to the original. MPC-HC is more faithful to the original product - so I recommend it over VLC. Example: http://i.imgur.com/TJng0HW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/TJng0HW.jpg E: Not my image and I noticed the frame is different. I can assure you that the difference isn't due to being different frames. You'll find no shortage of better examples by searching "VLC washed out".
- teraflop 11y agoThis is an artifact of hardware YUV->RGB conversion, and can often be fixed by adjusting your video card settings. See e.g. https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Video:Color_washed_out/ https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Video:Color_washed_out/
- Nadya 11y agoI was running under the assumption people ran their software "out of the box" and wouldn't want to adjust settings given an absurdly low number of people actually change defaults. If we're going to take into consideration configurations... even when adjusted it still isn't quite right. There are also issues with debanding and sharpness, see: http://i.imgur.com/qrutuP6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qrutuP6.jpg A properly configured MPC-HC will beat a properly configured VLC. Although many people probably wouldn't care about such minor differences - some people do. I'm not too heavily opinionated since the end result is visual and thus comes down to personal preference. Given the details are minor and most people wouldn't even notice without showing them, I don't think its of great importance. But if someone's going to be digging through config files and taking time to set something up - they should start with better software and adjust their settings from there.
- Bedon292 11y agoThis is the exact reason I have been avoiding 10. I still use the DVR capability. I know I don't have automatic update on, but still getting paranoid about it reading all the issues people are having.
- untog 11y agoI've been trying to move away from WMC - trying MediaPortal, NextPVR and Emby, so far, but the interface on all of them is sub-par. It's very frustrating - I'd gladly pay a chunk of money, but I guess I'm part of a small audience that doesn't make such development worth it.
- Bedon292 11y agoYeah, I utilize a CableCARD and WMC is the only thing that ever got certified to use it. If there was an alternative, I would use it, but there is none that I can find.