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Old 20th April 2010, 10:44   #11408  |  Link
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Postprocessing is disabled by default in ffdshow. The small speed difference might be due to colorspace conversion and some sanity checks that MPC does not perform. Btw, MPC does not have any multi-threaded decoding, so on a multicore CPU ffdshow will be much faster with decoding H.264 in software mode.

It always makes me laugh when people say that codec packs are evil and break your system. While that may be true for ancient stuff such as Nimo and ACE, it is just blatantly untrue for any modern codec pack such as CCCP or K-Lite. In fact, for example K-Lite is equipped with special functionality to fix things. This includes detection (and removal) of several known bad codecs that cause crashes, memory leaks and other stability issues. It includes detection (and removal) of incorrect codec references in the registry (left-over stuff). It includes detection of some known audio and DirectShow issues. It includes a proper uninstaller. It adjusts what it installs based on what is already installed. Everything can be customized. Etc. Etc.

Btw, the update that I did yesterday has made software H264 decoding in MPC significantly faster. Your welcome
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