MPC-HC can't "load" ffdshow anymore :(

[Dr.BeSt]

Hi,

Since upgrading to Win7 x64, I've got severe problems using ffdshow for raw video postprocessing/upscaling of DVD/Xvid/DivX movies with MPC-HC.

The setting "raw video" in ffdshow's codec tab is set to "all YUV" - this used to make ffdshow postprocess any videos after the decoder finished work.
On my new computer however, I need to set MPC-HC to use the "System Default" DirectShow Video Renderer in order to make ffdshow show up while playing a video.

ANY other video renderer, including VMR7 and EVR, works fine except for the fact that ffdshow doesn't show up. :confused:

I wouldn't mind and use this "System Default" renderer, but oddly it seems to perform nearest neighbour pixel resizing only, which makes it pracically useless.

I'm using current generic 32 bit versions of both MPC-HC and ffdshow. Computer system is: Windows 7 Professional x64, Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT, Core i7 920, 6 GB RAM.

Anyone got any ideas?

[clsid]

Add ffdshow as an external filter in MPC options and set it as "preferred".

Somehow intermediate processing filters are not loaded in MPC on Windows 7, unless you explicitly label them as preferred.

[Dr.BeSt]

:thanks: a lot, that actually worked!

Just one more question: Which renderer would you consider to be prefered in general?

VMR7 (renderless) seems to be far superior to EVR CP in terms of jitter, dropped frames and sync offset. My tests of madVR showed occasional micro stutters.

[pirlouy]

There's a recent thread talking about renderers: "renderer image quality". You'll see different points of view.