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No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS
by baskinghobo 16y ago
No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg. Any reason behind this?
- d_c 16y agoI've noticed a difference in quality also. I compared mplayer and vlc, mplayer looked definitely better.
- jbk 16y agoVery unlikely. Here MPC-HC, uses shaders and special renderers, technologies that VLC doesn't use on Windows. But Mplayer and VLC use the same technologies, same decoders, and same output modules technology (xv, x11 and plain d3d)
- jbk 16y agonVidia driver?
- brandong 16y agoI use both VLC and MPC-HC on my machines. On the lower end computers I've noticed a large performance difference between the two: MPC-HC can crank out 720P on my 5year old laptops without hiccup, but VLC stutters all over the place. I've heard some recommendations on how to configure VLC to be more responsive, but the fact remains MPC-HC performs better "out-of-the-box" than VLC. I still keep VLC around for anything MPC-HC has trouble playing, however, as VLC truly does play just about anything if it is playable at all.
- jbk 16y agoOf course, MPC-HC uses GPU while VLC didn't until this version.
- ja27 16y agoDo you have any of the sharpening shaders turned on in MPC? I'm not sure VLC has anything like that yet.
- jbk 16y agoThe issue here is not sharpening, but the colour output space, and yes MPC-HC uses shaders to do it, while VLC trusts the GPU so far. And some nVidia GPUs have a wrong colourspace output, which makes the colour to be faded...
- sprout 16y agoYeah, I use VLC strictly as a fallback. It's always MPC/mplayer first. But VLC is invaluable for always showing something.