Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) - DXVA!

[Jong]

For those guys that might be able to investigate the vc-1 mpc-hc decoding problems I mentioned, I uploaded a sample in my post a few posts up. It nicely shows how the mpc-hc decoder started crashes since build 1051 to 1056. Feedback would be great as it effects anyone playing blu-rays including the popular Planet Earth series.... ;)

There are many m2ts / vc-1 problems with mpc-hc at the moment.I think your problem must be specific to some settings/environment. The clip plays fine here:

MPC-HC b1098
XP SP3, Cat 9.2, 3850
VMR9(renderless), Mixer Mode on
Internal VC-1 decoder (DXVA on)
Internal splitter

[mark0077]

I think your problem must be specific to some settings/environment. The clip plays fine here:

MPC-HC b1098
XP SP3, Cat 9.2, 3850
VMR9(renderless), Mixer Mode on
Internal VC-1 decoder (DXVA on)
Internal splitter

I am using software decoding though, not dxva. Any chance you could try without dxva.. :) Thanks for testing.

[Jong]

Yeah, crashes MPC-HC, just after 50 seconds in software mode.

[mark0077]

Yeah always at the same point for me, about 50 seconds just as the pure black scene turns bright... hopefully some of the coders can reproduce as easily. Thansk Jong.

[Adub]

Okay, its working now. However, its running too fast. It's running at around 50 fps, instead of 23.976. The funny thing is that ffdshow thinks that it's feeding the stream at 23.976fps. Very weird.

Anyone ever have this issue before?

In an effort to have multiple conversations in the same thread, anyone have any idea why I am getting such sporadic speeds when playing an HD-DVD with Haali's Splitter using 1104?

[Jong]

Yeah always at the same point for me, about 50 seconds just as the pure black scene turns bright... hopefully some of the coders can reproduce as easily. Thansk Jong.Have you raised a bug report?

[mark0077]

I have about 7 or 8 bugs, all with samples etc, will add them all to bug tracker this evening, cheers.

[Leak]

So the proper way for using it is to force YV12-only output in ffdshow and then enable this shader in MPC-HC?
The "proper way for using it" is to choose your output settings like you want them, play something with red text on black background and take a close look.

If the red is blocky at the edge: use the shader.
If the red is okay: don't use the shader.

Easy as that.

Or there is another proper way?
It's a shader for MPC-HC - how else would you use it?

np: Sleepy Town Manufacture - It Seems (Inspired By You)

[mark0077]

OK Added 6 of my top bugs to the tracker. Does anyone know if there is a bug for the m2ts splitter problem where using an external decoder (vc-1 only?) will cause stuttering playback (unless using beliyaal's workaround of frame time correction). This has been a problem for me for quite some time, thought there would already be a bug for it but can't find it.

[Reino]

I just downloaded 1.2.1106.0 and I think there's something seriously wrong with the internal Theora video decoder. Whether it's in a OGG- or a MKV-container, it decodes the Theora video stream with maximum possible speed (cpu @ 100%).
Thought I'd mention.

[Egh]

Interesting question regarding the subtitles texture resolution:

If I choose "Desktop" resolution, which one does it take? I have two monitors, running on 1280x1024 each. Does it take this value or for instance 2560x1024? What happens if monitors have different resolution? Which one is taken into account?

As well, for 4:3 resolutions there, I can see 1024x768 but not 1280x1024.

[diman1982]

hello, i have a strange horizontal and vertical lines that appear when i zoom the picture(for example, 2.35 hdrip to fit 16:9 screen)
i am using belyaal build 24, evr custom. Here is the shot:

[Keiyakusha]

hello, i have a strange horizontal and vertical lines that appear when i zoom the picture(for example, 2.35 hdrip to fit 16:9 screen)
i am using belyaal build 24, evr custom. Here is the shot:

Thats old build. Upgrade to svn 1106. AFAIK this problem was fixed.

[diman1982]

Thats old build. Upgrade to svn 1106. AFAIK this problem was fixed.
thanks, allready upgrading.

[MatMaul]

hello, i have a strange horizontal and vertical lines
same here even without zooming. problem appears after the last beliyaal changes in the bicubic shader code (rev1103).
it only appears with specific resolutions like 624*352 (my screen is 1680*1050)

XP PS3, nvidia 9600GT with 185.85 drivers, VMR9+mixer mode

[diman1982]

same here even without zooming. problem appears after the last beliyaal changes in the bicubic shader code (rev1103).
it only appears with specific resolutions like 624*352 (my screen is 1680*1050)

XP PS3, nvidia 9600GT with 185.85 drivers, VMR9+mixer mode
svn 1106 solved my problem. Try it

[MatMaul]

svn 1106 solved my problem. Try it
same problem with svn 1106

[kikker]

I have PC connected to LCD HDTV via DVI --> HDMI. I'm not sure if the TV expects PC levels or Video levels. But, I'm trying to obtain truly black bars for content wider than 16:9 and the proper levels for the video content.

If I select the default renderer, I get nice, very black horizontal bars, but playback is terrible (jumps frames every 5 seconds and very poorly anti-aliased only in full screen mode). These black bars go very nicely with the video content if PC Levels are used in CoreAVC.

If I select EVR as renderer, black bars aren't so black. That is, if I select PC Levels (not video levels) in CoreAVC, the video blacks are darker than the bars themselves. If I select Video (not PC) levels in CoreAVC, black levels are similar between the bars and video content, but both aren't truly black.

[alexins]

Media Player Classic HomeCinema (x86/x64), svn 1111 (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/752/1/)

Supported languages: BY, CN, CZ, DE, EN, ES, FR, HU, IT, KR, PL, RU, SK, TR, UA

Changes log (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/7/17/)

(1107-1111)
Fixed : vc-1 Software Decoding Crash (bug #2792643);
Fixed : Some Audio Format Splitter Typos (bug #2792652);
Fixed : incorrect handle in VOBFile;
Fixed : broken Theora playback (playing full speed);
Fixed : incorrect aspect ratio with VMR9+YUV Mixing;
Changed : updated french translation;
Cosmetic changes : remove "todo".

[GTPVHD]

VMR9 Mixer Mode is still broken in SVN 1111 for SD videos.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9362/1111gtn.jpg

How it should look like, SVN 1101.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6344/1101c.jpg

VMR9 Mixer Mode is selected in Options without checking the other box besides it, YUV Mixing Mode. It worked fine in all builds before 1104.

[betaking]

last svn 1111 use vmr9(Renderless) play some avi files encoder by divx get a black picture! but svn 1094 play fine!

[Hypernova]

svn 1106 solved my problem. Try it

The build from alexins right after Beliyaal posted that he fixed the line problem (1093) does not have the line for me. However, I believe the lines are back as soon as 1094 and after including 1111.

[Gleb Egorych]

VMR9 Mixer Mode is still broken in SVN 1111 for SD videos.
Exactly. YUV mixing disabled, broken picture.

[MatMaul]

same here even without zooming. problem appears after the last beliyaal changes in the bicubic shader code (rev1103).
it only appears with specific resolutions like 624*352 (my screen is 1680*1050)

XP PS3, nvidia 9600GT with 185.85 drivers, VMR9+mixer mode
about this bug : it is really when the shaders resize from 624*352 to 1680*1050 (in reality 1680*944 or 946 I suppose).
if someone have a screen with a similar resolution you can test with a tv episode, or I can provide a sample.
any video resized to 624*352 will do the job.

[MatMaul]

VMR9 Mixer Mode is still broken in SVN 1111 for SD videos.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9362/1111gtn.jpg

How it should look like, SVN 1101.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6344/1101c.jpg

VMR9 Mixer Mode is selected in Options without checking the other box besides it, YUV Mixing Mode. It worked fine in all builds before 1104.
same problem when I play videos with aspect ratio.
introduced in rev 1103 too.

[chiyuwang]

VMR9 and video decoder cant connect any more?

[Jong]

Testing 1100.

I'm using VMR9 D3D with mixer mode and YUV mixing enabled, 3D bucubic resizing on XP SP3 and still a grid pattern appears when zooming (tested with DVD).

[gngn]

last svn 1111 use vmr9(Renderless) play some avi files encoder by divx get a black picture! but svn 1094 play fine!

i dont encounter this problem with the divx files i have (it seems i only have divx5 files) , but i get a black picture with CoreAVC 1.9.5 and H.264 720p videos. playback with 1101+CoreAVC is fine. 1104, 1111 + DXVA or ffdshow is also fine.

OS: Win XP SP3
GPU: 8600GTS 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode, yuv mixing)

[betaking]

i dont encounter this problem with the divx files i have, but i get a black picture with CoreAVC 1.9.5 and 720p videos. playback with 1101+CoreAVC is fine. 1104, 1111 + DXVA or ffdshow is also fine.

OS: Win XP SP3
GPU: 8600GTS 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode, yuv mixing)
and I test again get a black picture with DIVX7 and some divx videos. playback with 1094+DIVX7 is fine. 1104, 1111 use ffdshow is also fine.
OS: VISTA SP2
GPU: 8600GT 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode)

[aerodown]

i dont encounter this problem with the divx files i have, but i get a black picture with CoreAVC 1.9.5 and 720p videos. playback with 1101+CoreAVC is fine. 1104, 1111 + DXVA or ffdshow is also fine.

OS: Win XP SP3
GPU: 8600GTS 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode, yuv mixing)

i also have this problem. get black picture with coreavc 1.9.5 + mpc-hc (1104,1106,1111).

coreavc 1.9.5 + mpc-hc 1101 is fine.

OS: Win XP SP3
GPU: 8600GT 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode)

[Keiyakusha]

I noticed that MPC-HC shows "playing [DXVA]" when I actualy use CoreAVC CUDA. Is it possible to show there "CUDA" in this case? I'm using Win7.

[Casimir666]

VMR9 Mixer Mode is still broken in SVN 1111 for SD videos.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9362/1111gtn.jpg

How it should look like, SVN 1101.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6344/1101c.jpg

VMR9 Mixer Mode is selected in Options without checking the other box besides it, YUV Mixing Mode. It worked fine in all builds before 1104.

Should be ok in rev 1112. Could somebody check if it also solve this bug : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2638184&group_id=170561&atid=854651

[clsid]

Can any of the hardcore testers here give me a short summary of all unfixed bugs that were introduced during the beliyaal merge? It is kinda hard to keep up.

[alexins]

Media Player Classic HomeCinema (x86/x64), svn 1112 (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/753/1/)

Supported languages: BY, CN, CZ, DE, EN, ES, FR, HU, IT, KR, PL, RU, SK, TR, UA

Changes log (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/7/17/)

Fixed : incorrect aspect ratio with VMR9+Mixing mode.

[GTPVHD]

I can confirm VMR9 Mixer Mode is now fixed in SVN 1112. Thanks a lot, Casimir for the quick fix.

[Matching_Mole]

Hi,

Yesterday I tried MPC with the last version of madVR with a blue-ray and the PGC didn't work. I mean I was able to select them but nothing appeared in the screen. The same configuration with EVR-CP instead of madVR worked fine.

This is a bug from MPC splitter or this is because madVR don not have subtitles pins?

Regards.

[mark0077]

Thanks Casimir for fixing the vc-1 software decoder bug and typos I posted in bug tracker. Just posted my last bug related to vc-1 decoding as I have found a range of builds that the problem came in.

tsMuxer doesn't seem to properly remux a HDMV audio track from a m2ts to a m2ts split. The splits won't play back in mpc-hc. I would have liked to have given a sample with this bug I just posted. Its either caused by vc-1 or HDMV implementation in mpc-hc because the range of builds it started in contain changes to vc-1 aswell as introduction of HDMV splitting / decoding...

Any alternatives to tsMuxer?

[Jong]

Bicubic "grid" problem on zooming still in 1112.

I have updated bug 2018012, which appears to be where tetsuo55 thinks it should be. But note, that problem's title also refers to DXVA and the grid problem is NOT limited to DXVA.

[tetsuo55]

Bicubic "grid" problem on zooming still in 1112.

I have updated bug 2018012, which appears to be where tetsuo55 thinks it should be. But note, that problem's title also refers to DXVA and the grid problem is NOT limited to DXVA.

i have reopened the grid bug, because all the other issues are fixed. and you seem to be right the 2 are not related.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2701249&group_id=170561&atid=854651#

[Jong]

i have reopened the grid bug, because all the other issues are fixed. and you seem to be right the 2 are not related.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2701249&group_id=170561&atid=854651#Thank you. I have updated the Grid bug.

[tetsuo55]

I want to thank all the developers for the many bug-fixes over the past few weeks.

These fixes have fixed bugs as old as 2007!
I have closed many bugs on the bug-tracker as fixed (and some as out of date)

@Everyone,
Thank you for having a look at the bug's from batches 1 and 2, the information posted has helped fix some of them and close many of them.
Please take a look at batch 3 and see if you can confirm any of the 6 bugs(please also update the bug if you where unable to reproduce)

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&artgroup=898924

for those intersted, most of the subtitle and renderer(including DXVA) bugs should be fixed with build 1112 or higher, please confirm :)
Subtitles: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165521
Renderer: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165522
DXVA: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165515

[mark0077]

I want to thank all the developers for the many bug-fixes over the past few weeks.

These fixes have fixed bugs as old as 2007!
I have closed many bugs on the bug-tracker as fixed (and some as out of date)

@Everyone,
Thank you for having a look at the bug's from batches 1 and 2, the information posted has helped fix some of them and close many of them.
Please take a look at batch 3 and see if you can confirm any of the 6 bugs(please also update the bug if you where unable to reproduce)

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&artgroup=898924

for those intersted, most of the subtitle and renderer(including DXVA) bugs should be fixed with build 1112 or higher, please confirm :)
Subtitles: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165521
Renderer: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165522
DXVA: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=170561&atid=854651&status=1&category=1165515

Updated bug relating to mutliple audio streams playing. I was able to reproduce using old reclock audio renderers. This strange combination of mpc-hc and old reclock has to effects

1) The internal switcher no longer works when reclock is used (is this expected?)
2) Old reclock's allowed mutliple instance to work, some recent (fairly recent?) build stopped this if my memory doesn't deceive me.

I no longer hear multiple streams with new reclock but cannot use the audio switcher.

[betaking]

last svv1112 test again get a black picture with DIVX7 and some divx videos. playback with 1094+DIVX7 is fine. 1104, 1111 use ffdshow is also fine.
OS: VISTA SP2
GPU: 8600GT 256M, driver 185.85
Renderer: VMR9renderless (vmr mixer mode)

[tetsuo55]

Updated bug relating to mutliple audio streams playing. I was able to reproduce using old reclock audio renderers. This strange combination of mpc-hc and old reclock has to effects

1) The internal switcher no longer works when reclock is used (is this expected?)
2) Old reclock's allowed mutliple instance to work, some recent (fairly recent?) build stopped this if my memory doesn't deceive me.

I no longer hear multiple streams with new reclock but cannot use the audio switcher.

Thanks for confirming,

Please provide a new detailed bug report about the reclock issue, also please post that info on the reclock site

[clsid]

The RealPlayer11 bug on the tracker could be closed as "won't fix". Recent versions are simply incompatible. I don't think it is fixable because the realmedia sdk that MPC uses is very old (and no newer one exists). Real Alternative is compatible with MPC.

[betaking]

I think if not Replace cook.dll from Realplayer10.5 Real Alternative not compatible with MPC.

[clsid]

It obviously does that, otherwise I would not have said that it was compatible.

[tetsuo55]

I closed the bug, it can be reopened when someone provides the Real11 SDK (legally)

[mark0077]

Thanks for confirming,

Please provide a new detailed bug report about the reclock issue, also please post that info on the reclock site

Will do, actually typed out big comment but it musn't have saved, its disappeared. Doing again now, cheers.

[chiyuwang]

Is there any guild for compiling MPC Homecinema with vc++ 2008 express, or vs 2008 standard if express version is too complex. I could not find any place with the guild.