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

[naoan]

from the players menu's, click View, select 'Status'

Thanks, but it pop up on a new bar... I want the time on the control bar (screwed up on my initial post, said seek bar instead).

The time only appear when you play something btw.

[Inspector.Gadget]

If you are deaf and your DVD is labeled "Closed captioning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning)", then enable this option.

Does this work with the MS DVD Navigator and any MPEG-2 decoder?

Using the MS DVD Navigator, MPC-HC Internal MPEG-2 decoder (not DXVA), and EVR-CP renderer, I don't see closed captions exposed through the "Navigate" or "Filters" menus and the M$ "Line 21 Decoder" is not loaded into the filter chain. This disc is labeled as closed captioned and I can select and view the captions in VLC. The regular VOBsubs on this disc work fine in MPC-HC. Thanks.

[THX-UltraII]

I have a question that I think not a lot of people will have an answer to (beside the authors of MPC-HC) but going to try anyway. I asked this question about 2 years ago too and didn t get a answer to it:

I own a Dune HD player that is able to send to audio simultaneously over HDMI out and SPDIF out (HDMI output will send the DTS-MA/True-HD signal and SPDIF the core signal). Is this in any way possible with MPC-HC in combination with Windows7?

[v0lt]

Does this work with the MS DVD Navigator and any MPEG-2 decoder?
The best choice - CyberLink Video/SP Decoder

Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder also good, but normally only works on a standard EVR.
(it has a problem with EVR-CP and EVR-Sync, so some features is disabled for this renderers and MS decoder).

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9964/44407464.th.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/44407464.png/)

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9956/50633140.th.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/705/50633140.png/)

Using the MS DVD Navigator, MPC-HC Internal MPEG-2 decoder (not DXVA), and EVR-CP renderer, I don't see closed captions exposed through the "Navigate" or "Filters" menus and the M$ "Line 21 Decoder" is not loaded into the filter chain.
MPC-HC Internal MPEG-2 decoder is not compatible with Line 21 Decoder 2. I do not know why.

[Superb]

It has problems because the pins aren't connected. MPC-HC fails to configure the renderer's input pins correctly.

[Superb]

Here... I've used DirectShowSpy.dll and proppage.dll to remotely connect to the graphs.

WMP:
http://i.imgur.com/EWFuF.png

MPC-HC (EVR-CP):
http://i.imgur.com/NCs2h.png

[Superb]

Btw, MPC-HC creates TWO graphs for some odd reason. Can be seen when you try to connect.

http://i.imgur.com/nayHl.png

[nevcairiel]

As you can see by all the ids, its the same graph. It just shows up twice because MPC-HC exports the graph into the global table itself, and when using DirectShowSpy.dll, its registered twice. No harm done. :)

[Inspector.Gadget]

OK, so thanks to the advice from v0lt above, I've gotten DVD closed captions working in MPC-HC using the Cyberlink decoder and EVR-CP. Apparently one can't have both closed captions and DXVA in MPC-HC due to the same issue with DVD subs and the MS DVD Navigator.

Are multiple closed captions streams legal in DVD content? If so, is there a way to force the Line 21 decoder 2 to select a particular text stream? Thanks.

Edit: Also, the MS Line 21 decoder 2 insists on printing the text over a translucent black block instead of by itself on the video. LOLMicrosoft

[pankov]

I have a question that I think not a lot of people will have an answer to (beside the authors of MPC-HC) but going to try anyway. I asked this question about 2 years ago too and didn t get a answer to it:

I own a Dune HD player that is able to send to audio simultaneously over HDMI out and SPDIF out (HDMI output will send the DTS-MA/True-HD signal and SPDIF the core signal). Is this in any way possible with MPC-HC in combination with Windows7?
I just tried the following in Graph Studio and it worked perfectly.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8111/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png/)
Well, I had to manually set a delay in ffdshow to match the two audio devices but I guess you can live with it.
Now you only need a developer that's willing to implement it in MPC-HC itself.

[THX-UltraII]

I just tried the following in Graph Studio and it worked perfectly.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8111/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png/)
Well, I had to manually set a delay in ffdshow to match the two audio devices but I guess you can live with it.
Now you only need a developer that's willing to implement it in MPC-HC itself.

this is great news for me! You think I will only need to set the delay correct 1 time? And how do I find a developer to implement it in MPC-HC?

EDIT: can you also specify what hardware I would need for this? One HDMI 5/6XXX series that will send both audio (High res.) and video over HDMI out and one external simple USB soundcard with optical out?

[kirakami]

when will next MPC-HC stable release out?
will real audio cook as internal codec included?
ffdshows cook codec is buggy :(

[pankov]

this is great news for me! You think I will only need to set the delay correct 1 time? And how do I find a developer to implement it in MPC-HC?

EDIT: can you also specify what hardware I would need for this? One HDMI 5/6XXX series that will send both audio (High res.) and video over HDMI out and one external simple USB soundcard with optical out?
I'm not sure if a single delay will be enough for all codecs. It probably depends on AV Receiver that you use ... I'm not sure - I don't have any experience with this.
I'm not sure about the hardware too. I've used my NVidia GTX 460 for HDMI and my motherboard's integrated Realtek sound card. ... well I cheated a bit - I didn't use the SPDIF out but the analog output because my desktop speakers are analog but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work with SPDIF too. ... I can probably test it when I return home in a couple of days. In general I think any two audio devices will work.

[Keiyakusha]

when will next MPC-HC stable release out?
will real audio cook as internal codec included?
ffdshows cook codec is buggy :(

As practice shows, "stable" MPC-HC is not always stable as you want it to be so use some trunk build that works without problems for you and be happy. ;)

[THX-UltraII]

I'm not sure if a single delay will be enough for all codecs. It probably depends on AV Receiver that you use ... I'm not sure - I don't have any experience with this.
I'm not sure about the hardware too. I've used my NVidia GTX 460 for HDMI and my motherboard's integrated Realtek sound card. ... well I cheated a bit - I didn't use the SPDIF out but the analog output because my desktop speakers are analog but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work with SPDIF too. ... I can probably test it when I return home in a couple of days. In general I think any two audio devices will work.


thxz for your help and info Pankov. If you could check it in a few days when you are home and have the time for it I would really appreciate this.

[Luyten]

Maybe I'm wrong but i believe xvidvideo.ru is not Alexoid's website.

in fact is alexins, not Alexoid :D

[73ChargerFan]

So, where did the shaders go to? They're not in the x64 versions I downloaded a few weeks ago on different computers. Didn't notice until I wanted to enable them though.

[Reino]

I'd like to point out that since version 1.5.3.3725.0 the Information-bar has been compromised. (View -> Information Ctrl+3). It simply doesn't work anymore. Could be earlier, but with 1.5.3.3725.0 I noticed it the first time.

Nevermind. Turns out the Information-bar only shows up with the internal MKV splitter enabled. I am using the LAV splitter.

[rotflol]

Hi,

The other day I noticed that MPC-HC crashes in the menu of some of my DVDs. Since I hadn't had problems with those DVDs before, I started downloading older builds to see when this problem appeared, and it seems that the last build working for me is 2948 (I use the 64-bit version, by the way). But the changelog for the next build doesn't seem to show any changes relating to DVD playback. Any ideas?

[JanWillem32]

I had a lot of problems getting DVD menus and DVD still image presentations to work again in my builds. There were quite a few problems with the code for it (and I didn't solve everything). To quote myself:I thought I had to edit the code for the aspect ratio correction. The DVD Navigator pin is an entirely different thing. Finding a small sample DVD with menus to download that isn't copyrighted was very hard.
Anyway, editing the function that passes trough the video size and aspect ratio was easy. Starting the actual debug session to test if all values are passed trough properly turned out to be a lot more trouble.
For those familiar with programming:
-The "Open DVD..." menu triggers 8 errors even before actually doing anything. These can all be ignored, but it's not very elegant programming of course.
-On connecting the DVD Navigator pin, the renderers are asked to send geometry data and receive a bitmap to display, regardless how far the renderer is actually initialized. (Fails quite often for this reason.)
-On failure, the DVD navigator closes its own thread, and restarts it again in an endless loop.
-When a previous instance failed, and the position data was still saved to the registry/.INI file, a race condition starts on re-opening and the DVD navigator is always stuck in an endless loop.

I was already wondering why it was taking so long for blu-ray menu support. If people were trying to re-use the DVD Navigator as a template, it will take another decade of programming indeed...
I've worked on the subtitle renderer, that doesn't have the most ideal code. Today I found a part with even worse malfunctioning.

[tipsypenguin]

is there any way to set the option scale to 16:9 tv to always on? I watch videos only on my tv and I have to turn that on every time.

[JanWillem32]

Do you mean a specific anamorphic stretch with one of the "View", "Video Frame" or "Pan&Scan" items?

[Mercury_22]

Can't compile last rev 3741 x64 1>------ Skipped Build: Project: libavcodec, Configuration: Release x64 ------
1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
2>------ Build started: Project: libavcodec_gcc, Configuration: Release x64 ------
2>Build started 09/26/2011 13:45:53.
2>Build:
2> make.exe 64BIT=yes -j4
2> make.exe: Nothing to be done for `all'.
2>
2>Build succeeded.
2>
2>Time Elapsed 00:00:01.73
3>------ Build started: Project: mpc-hc, Configuration: Release x64 ------
3>Build started 09/26/2011 13:45:54.
3>InitializeBuildStatus:
3> Touching "C:\MPC-HC\bin10\obj\Release_x64\mpc-hc\mpc-hc.unsuccessfulbuild".
3>PreBuildEvent:
3> SubWCRev: 'C:\MPC-HC'
3> Last committed at revision 3741
3> Updated to revision 3741
3> Local modifications found
3>ClCompile:
3> All outputs are up-to-date.
3> OXMaskedEdit.cpp
3>OXMaskedEdit.cpp(181): error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LONG (__cdecl COXMaskedEdit::* )(UINT,LONG)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
3> None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type
3>OXMaskedEdit.cpp(182): error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LONG (__cdecl COXMaskedEdit::* )(UINT,LONG)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
3> None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type
3>OXMaskedEdit.cpp(183): error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LONG (__cdecl COXMaskedEdit::* )(UINT,LONG)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
3> None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type
3>OXMaskedEdit.cpp(184): error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LONG (__cdecl COXMaskedEdit::* )(UINT,LONG)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
3> None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type
3>OXMaskedEdit.cpp(185): error C2440: 'static_cast' : cannot convert from 'LONG (__cdecl COXMaskedEdit::* )(UINT,LONG)' to 'LRESULT (__cdecl CWnd::* )(WPARAM,LPARAM)'
3> None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type
3>
3>Build FAILED.
3>
3>Time Elapsed 00:00:02.49
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 1 failed, 65 up-to-date, 1 skipped ========== the x86 it's compiling fine

[Gero]

I just tried the following in Graph Studio and it worked perfectly.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8111/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/graphstudioinfiniteteep.png/)
Well, I had to manually set a delay in ffdshow to match the two audio devices but I guess you can live with it.
Now you only need a developer that's willing to implement it in MPC-HC itself.

Hi all developers,

I need the same functionnality than THX-UltraII.
I already figured out how to modify the filters graph with Graphedit and it works fine. I am using ffdshow and my receiver gets the HD audio bitstream and my secondary audio device output the lossy core on its optical SPDIF out.
How difficult is it to implement that kind filter in MPC-HC? My development environment is already set up, I can compile MPC-HC.
I started to read about DirectShow and did a bit a debugging to see what's going on. I can see all these filters pins being connected but I don't see where the order of these filters is done (I guess I have to use a IGraphBuilder somewhere).
Can you give me some architecture details or classes/methods in MPC-HC I can look at to start?

Also for files with multiple audio streams I want to be able to play them on different audio device. It is mainly for .m2ts
I found the Haali media splinter does that. I am able to use it if I create a new graph with graphedit but I am not able to use it with MPC-HC (I got a Cannot render file message). Any idea why or do you know another splitter that makes all the audio streams accessible?

Thanks

[ForceX]

Pretty sure MPC's own splitters make pins for all the audio files. You can play both of them at once if you disable the internal audio switcher, but I don't think you can set different renderers for each. Maybe with ReClock.

[Gero]

I can see only one audio pin with GraphEdit. If I disable the filter MPEG PS/TS/PVA then I cannot play the file or maybe I am not using the good filter?
I will have a look at ReClock see if I can find something useful.

[ForceX]

I suppose you could use AV Splitter (http://forum.avmedia.su/download/file.php?id=38). Disable the option Single Output Pin from the Output tab in filter properties and it should expose all the streams.

[Gero]

Thanks, it works like a charm!
Meanwhile I also modified the MPC internal MPEG splitter so it create an output pin for each the audio stream.
In both cases I can use graphedit to connect the stream to my secondary device.

[JohnLai]

Just asking if it is only me. Does anyone who has installed ATI 11.10 Preview driver has black screen issue when playing h.264 media in DXVA?

[ageback]

Simplified Chinese translation update to rev3748
http://hotfile.com/dl/131084289/cc4e589/mplayerc.sc.rc.7z.html

[THX-UltraII]

Gero, the things your doing (progress as I see?) is oout of my legue. Can I still use your setup guide on the AVS forum in the D-Box topic to config?

[THX-UltraII]

Another general MPC-HC question:

Is MPC-HC already able to playback BD structure (BDMW) folders?

[Gero]

Gero, the things your doing (progress as I see?) is oout of my legue. Can I still use your setup guide on the AVS forum in the D-Box topic to config?

Yes you can use my other guide. I am progressing but nothing usable yet.

mpchc is able to play the BD movies (forget about menus and bonus). My understanding is that it is looking in the playlist folder and play the longest playlist (which should be the movie).

[THX-UltraII]

Yes you can use my other guide. I am progressing but nothing usable yet.

mpchc is able to play the BD movies (forget about menus and bonus). My understanding is that it is looking in the playlist folder and play the longest playlist (which should be the movie).

with 'nothing usable yet' you mean auto-loading? Manual it run fine?

[THX-UltraII]

General MPC-HC question:
when do you want to enable (or disable) the build-in audio switcher filter?

@Gero:
I m done with my video tweaking of MPC so it s time to start with some testing. Although I got your guide I still don t know exactly how to start (embarrassed! :().

My setup is now:
Windows 7
latest MPC-HC
LAV audio decoder
LAV video decoder
Reclock for audio output
madVR as video renderer

hardware: ATI X5450 and Creative X-Fi usb (for optical out)

Can you please help me on my way?

[THX-UltraII]

And another genaral question:

I have some BR structure folders on my HDD. MPC-HC can t play them or am I doing something wrong? I tried to open the biggest file in the BDMV folder but that only 40 min of the movie. Is there no way to play BDMV structure folders?

[SamuriHL]

File, open dvd folder. It will deal with the bdmv structure for you. If you have a mounted image, use open dvd and point it to the drive.

Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk

[Gero]

And another genaral question:

I have some BR structure folders on my HDD. MPC-HC can t play them or am I doing something wrong? I tried to open the biggest file in the BDMV folder but that only 40 min of the movie. Is there no way to play BDMV structure folders?

Sure it can :)
Select File then Open Directory and select your BDMV folder. Mpchc will play the whole movie.
Edit: SamuriHL's method works too.

General MPC-HC question:
when do you want to enable (or disable) the build-in audio switcher filter?

@Gero:
I m done with my video tweaking of MPC so it s time to start with some testing. Although I got your guide I still don t know exactly how to start (embarrassed! :().

My setup is now:
Windows 7
latest MPC-HC
LAV audio decoder
LAV video decoder
Reclock for audio output
madVR as video renderer

hardware: ATI X5450 and Creative X-Fi usb (for optical out)

Can you please help me on my way?

Are you using win7 x32 or x64 ?

[Gero]

I cannot build mpchc x64, I have that same problem: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/1740
Is there another solution than using GCC 4.5.3?

[THX-UltraII]

Sure it can :)
Select File then Open Directory and select your BDMV folder. Mpchc will play the whole movie.
Edit: SamuriHL's method works too.



Are you using win7 x32 or x64 ?

64 bit

EDIT: but I use the x86 version of MPC-HC

[Lincoln Burrows]

I am having issues with a specific file (or group of files) encoded by someone else while using MPC-HC (it's win 7 x32).

File is using those settings:


Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 950 MiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 1 381 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2117/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2117/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : AdvancedSimple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (MPEG)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 1 241 Kbps
Width : 592 pixels
Height : 432 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.370
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.162
Stream size : 854 MiB (90%)
Writing library : XviD 1.0.1 (UTC 2004-06-05)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 88.0 MiB (9%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 504 ms
Writing library : LAME3.95
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17.5 -b 128
Everytime I try to forward the video, the player closes saying there is some error.

And this is only happening with this file (and some others).

I believe MPC is somehow rejecting those files, as if they were encoded in a way that prevented MPC from seeking different parts of the video properly.

How may I check if this file have some unknown issue that is causing that, or if it's MPC's fault?

So far, I have tested the same file, doing the same thing in BSPlayer PRO, and no problems... Maybe it's some filter that is causing this?

[tipsypenguin]

Do you mean a specific anamorphic stretch with one of the "View", "Video Frame" or "Pan&Scan" items?

it's a Pan&Scan item. you go into Pan&Scan then select scale to 16:9 tv. I have to enable that every time or the videos look squished on my tv. the videos look fine on the computer screen but off on the tv unless I turn that on. I would like to have that enabled all the time because I only watch videos on the tv.

[JanWillem32]

I've verified that the status for enabling a "Pan&Scan" item indeed isn't saved on exit. I'm not familiar with this part of the code. Can you post a bug report on trac so that a GUI programmer can solve that problem?

[golagoda]

I am having issues with a specific file (or group of files) encoded by someone else while using MPC-HC (it's win 7 x32).

File is using those settings:

Everytime I try to forward the video, the player closes saying there is some error.

And this is only happening with this file (and some others).

I believe MPC is somehow rejecting those files, as if they were encoded in a way that prevented MPC from seeking different parts of the video properly.

How may I check if this file have some unknown issue that is causing that, or if it's MPC's fault?

So far, I have tested the same file, doing the same thing in BSPlayer PRO, and no problems... Maybe it's some filter that is causing this?

Try temporarily installing VLC (if you don't have it already) and see if VLC prompts you to rebuild the index before playing the video.

I have a few broken/messed up .avi files that do the same thing and they'll only work properly in VLC after rebuilding the index.

The only bad thing is VLC only repairs it temporarily for use by itself, if I knew a tool to actually fix it I'd recommend it to you.

[Peekstra]

You can probably use asfbin to repair the file.

[THX-UltraII]

Is there a way to auto-change the refresh rate of my video card when running different contents? I play mostly 23,976, 25 and 60fps content.
Now I always have to check in MPC-HC what the fps is of the content I m running. I check this with ATL+J because I use madVR and this way I get a report which also shows the current fps of the content.

My setup:
ATI HD5450 with latest ATI driver.
latest MPC-HC with madVR as video renderer.
latest LAV audio/video decoders.

EDIT:
In the past I just the fullscreen option that looked like this:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/381/mpcl.th.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/mpcl.gif/)

The fullscreen option in the latest builds looks totally different and I don t know how to use it. I can check some boxes to On/Off in the 'new' menu and there are some standard values that says FROM and TO fps.

EDIT2 :):
Found out how it works. Only thing is that no matter what I try, the checkbox 'use autochange fullscreen monitor mode' keep UNCHECKING when I play a movie......:confused:

[khagaroth]

Czech translation update (https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/1505).

[DMD]

Good morning.

I'm using on W7 64-bit x86 version of MPC-HC.
The motivation for this lies in the fact that I use as a post processing an old version of ffdshow that works together with only 32 of the Cyberlink codec, also 32-bit.
In theory there should be no problems, but that happens when I open a file or an avi video file only .m2v, MPC-HC sometimes it opens after a few minutes, or crashes and I have to force quit.

Do I have to go through pursuant to the x64 version?
In addition, external filters are no longer used Cyberlink x86?

THANKS

[cez4r]

Hi, everybody!
About the Scale to 16:9 TV option mentioned earlier:
It would be also good to have a possibility to assign a key to this function.

[ADude]

@clsid: I've completely deleted and added several files. The main paint loop (that takes a frame from the mixer, processes it and puts it on screen) in the shared renderer has been revised for more than 90% of the code (it takes up about two thirds of all the code in the renderer part). There's no way that can be split up. When I first started that re-write, it wouldn't compile into something sensible for weeks. The parts for the mixer updates, internal codecs, some of the VSync parts (shared by the renderer and mixers), subtitle renderer parts, and a few other small items are patchable.
About beliyaal, a comparison:
I've already been around here for developing for a longer period of time,
I've interacted more with the users of tester builds,
I have a more suitable previous specialization for writing renderer code (2D, 3D, ray-tracing, modeling and texturing with DirectX 10/11),
I'll happily stick around for a while for maintenance (there's plenty to do),
and I'll happily work on the subtitle renderer, a new custom mixer or a DirectX 11 renderer in the future (preferably only one at a time).
Although I'm probably harder to actually work with (not much experience with open source projects like this, personality issues ;)), I intend to go in a different direction than the one beliyaal chose for.

Wow, I've been away from this thread for a year or two, and the same issues are being discussed. :D

It would be wonderful for someone with relevant experience to deal with these issues - welcome !

PS My particular Vsync issues always involved playing frame rate of 25 (UK) TV shows on a 60 hz refresh rate HD TV monitor. I'd be happy to test new versions for issues with this test case.