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

[dreamon]

i'd like to say this is the best player in the world :)
thanks for everyone who contributed for this project..

[Shinigami-Sama]

I am using 8.10, also SP3 and latest DirectX update. Have tried all renderers and nearly all MPC-HC builds over the last few months.
DXVA works fine on my system with PowerDVD 7.3 and ZoomPlayer with Cyberlink filters, just not MPC.
Actually, it's not that DXVA isn't "working" per se, as the video decoder clearly shows "DXVA bitstream decoding", it's just that the video, like I said, is flashing back and forth and shows corruption.
And I'm not the only one, a friend of mine has the exact same problems with ATi 3650 and 2600 cards and, like myself, has experienced those same problems for months, with no improvement coming from updates of any kind.

I had the same problem
use the ATI uninstaller then reboot then reinstall 8.10
now all the 4.1 files I have play perfect with rev854
and I use another build for non dxva

[tal.aloni]

Dear members, I would like to have some consult,

I was finally able to compile MPC-HC successfully (thanks again alexins),
I wish there was a readme file attached)

I just started playing with the source, my goal was to try to make the output pin connect to my VMR renderer even if H.264(FFmpeg) is disabled, amazingly enough, I partially succeeded by adding the software entries to the DXVAFormats enums. (see below)
this is not a patch or anything, on the contrary, this method have some serious drawbacks, (but it does actually work, I have MPC Decoder with DXVA when the source supports it, but I'm falling to ffdshow whenever the source does not)


VIDEO_OUTPUT_FORMATS DXVAFormats[] =
{
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, 1, 12, 'avxd'}, // DXVA2
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, 1, 12, 'AVXD'},
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, 1, 12, 'AVxD'},
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, 1, 12, 'AvXD'},
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12, 3, 12, '21VY'}, // Software
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_I420, 3, 12, '024I'},
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_IYUV, 3, 12, 'VUYI'},
{&MEDIASUBTYPE_YUY2, 1, 16, '2YUY'}
};


Thanks,
Tal

p.s. I'm using Geforce 8200 with Windows XP

Edit:
I'm starting to figure out what's going on:
I have two display adapters, the primary does not support DXVA, the secondary do.
once playback has begun on the secondary, it does switch to 'avxd',
but it does not gets connected at all, without my modification. (even when starting playback on the second monitor)
When disabling the primary adapter, stand-alone DXVA is working without any modifications.

[mark0077]

Hey there,

MPC Is the best player out there no doubt but reading all of these posts i thought I would check out if my card can do dxva for some higher resolution material.

Using purely mpc homecinema internal decoders on my 7600gt using the newest 180.43 drivers in vista using evr cp, I cannot get the DXVA mode to be anything other than "Not using DXVA"

Here is some pin input info in case its any help. (pin out info in decoder is very long). Let me know if I can do testing as hardware accelleration is something I really need to get these 720p clips to play on my older machine.

Filter : MPC Video Decoder - CLSID : {008BAC12-FBAF-497B-9670-BC6F6FBAE2C4}

- Connected to:

CLSID: {0A68C3B5-9164-4A54-AFAF-995B2FF0E0D4}
Filter: D:\Tv Shows\Lost\Season 3\18hd.mkv
Pin: English (Video 1)

- Connection media type:

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 23.98fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {31435641-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO {E06D80E3-DB46-11CF-B4D1-00805F6CBBEA}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 1
cbFormat: 164

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 0
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 417083

VIDEOINFOHEADER2:
dwInterlaceFlags: 0x00000000
dwCopyProtectFlags: 0x00000000
dwPictAspectRatioX: 16
dwPictAspectRatioY: 9
dwControlFlags: 0x00000000
dwReserved2: 0x00000000

MPEG2VIDEOINFO:
dwStartTimeCode: 0
cbSequenceHeader: 32
dwProfile: 0x00000064
dwLevel: 0x00000033
dwFlags: 0x00000004

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 1280
biHeight: 720
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 24
biCompression: AVC1
biSizeImage: 0
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b 5d 06 00 00 00 00 00 ........;]......
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 ................
0040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 ........(.......
0050: d0 02 00 00 01 00 18 00 41 56 43 31 00 00 00 00 Ð.......AVC1....
0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0070: 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 33 00 00 00 .... ...d...3...
0080: 04 00 00 00|00 18 67 64 00 33 ac 34 e7 01 40 16 ......gd.3¬4ç.@.
0090: e8 40 00 00 fa 40 00 2e e0 23 c6 0c 67 80 00 04 è@..ú@..à#Æ.g€..
00a0: 68 ee bc b0 hî¼°

[_xxl]

Please read first post. That video card is not supported by internal MPC-HC DXVA decoder.

[Leak]

Using purely mpc homecinema internal decoders on my 7600gt using the newest 180.43 drivers in vista using evr cp, I cannot get the DXVA mode to be anything other than "Not using DXVA"
No full acceleration for H.264 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Generation_1_PureVideo) equals no DXVA in MPC-HC.

np: Duo505 - Lsdj08 (Late)

[mark0077]

NP - Keep up the good work

Just as a final comment.

I am comparing cpu usage on my non dxva card, for hd content (one of the 1080p shuttle launch videos). Here are the cpu usage counts for three players (mpc using internal decoders only)

Media Player 11 - 67%
Media Player Classic (EVR CP) - 99-100%
Media Player Classic (EVR) - 99-100%
Media Player Classic (VMR9) - 99-100%
PowerDVD - 54%

Does this mean for "older" cards, media player 11 and powerdvd are using the not so easy method of implementing dxva..... If so I'm quite saddened :(

[DrNein]

I am using 8.10, also SP3 and latest DirectX update. Have tried all renderers and nearly all MPC-HC builds over the last few months.
DXVA works fine on my system with PowerDVD 7.3 and ZoomPlayer with Cyberlink filters, just not MPC.
Actually, it's not that DXVA isn't "working" per se, as the video decoder clearly shows "DXVA bitstream decoding", it's just that the video, like I said, is flashing back and forth and shows corruption.
And I'm not the only one, a friend of mine has the exact same problems with ATi 3650 and 2600 cards and, like myself, has experienced those same problems for months, with no improvement coming from updates of any kind.

Ah, well that's different ;)

As said a few pages back, there is corruption at the bottom of video with VC-1 from ffmpeg, but not CyberLink. Unfortunately, CyberLink decoder cannot be used outside of PowerDVD and thus not in MPC-HC.

Also, when playing full screen on the secondary display alone with VMR9 renderless there may be flashing as you describe. However, I generally use VMR7 windowed with Theater Mode and there is no such issue.

Renderless is only needed for subtitles (while maintaining DXVA). Now that VMR7 renderless works I will have to try that as an alternative. Also, there is a new Full Screen Monitor option for Output. You might try that even with a single display. In any case, different versions and configurations can co-exist using the Player option "Store settings to .ini file" and the exe's can simply be given different names or else occupy different folders.

If, for some reason, you wanted to go all the way back to good ol' MPC (rather than MPC-HC official release), then the new filters (particularly ffmpeg) could still be used externally.

[jos99]

I am comparing cpu usage on my non dxva card, for hd content (one of the 1080p shuttle launch videos).

Have you got a link to the video? What format is it in i.e. AVC/h.264, MPEG4, VC-1, WMV9?

[jos99]

Ah, well that's different ;)

As said a few pages back, there is corruption at the bottom of video with VC-1 from ffmpeg, but not CyberLink. Unfortunately, CyberLink decoder cannot be used outside of PowerDVD and thus not in MPC-HC.

That is definitely not correct- Cyberlink decoders are free to be used by any application.

Renderless is only needed for subtitles (while maintaining DXVA).
Renderless is needed to remove tearing using Direct 3D fullscreen also.

[mark0077]

Its actually advertised as 1080i, my apologies but

MPC says its using MPC Video Decoder and the details of the video are
Video: Windows Media Video 9 1440x810 29.97fps 8192Kbps

The filename is ksc_080707_118_launch_1080i.wmv approx 102mb in size.

Interestingly I have a 1080p video (another shuttle launch, this one with .mpg extension) that is actually showing much lower cpu usage (around 92%)

MPC says its using mpeg-2 video decoder and the details of the video are
Video: MPEG2 Video 1920x1080 29.97fps 20000Kbps

== So i suppose to summarize. ==

Problem 1 -> For us poor people on older graphics cards, the MPC Video Decoder seems to be almost twice as slow as microsoft and cyberlink decoders. (Im sure there are advantages to the mpc video decoder, I just have yet to figure out what they are)

Problem 2 -> When using the MPC Homecinema, if I CTRL-ALT-DEL while a video is playing to get to my task manager, the video seems to get caught up and freezes, sometimes windows actually reports the program is not responding immediately, sometimes the video will return to life 10 seconds later with a 100~ pixel green semi opaque bar at the bottom of the image.

If I can provide any details to help figure this out. I wouldn't like media player 11 to have 1 up on this great player in any situation.

====

[DrNein]

NP - Keep up the good work

Just as a final comment.

I am comparing cpu usage on my non dxva card, for hd content (one of the 1080p shuttle launch videos). Here are the cpu usage counts for three players (mpc using internal decoders only)

Media Player 11 - 67%
Media Player Classic (EVR CP) - 99-100%
Media Player Classic (EVR) - 99-100%
Media Player Classic (VMR9) - 99-100%
PowerDVD - 54%

Does this mean for "older" cards, media player 11 and powerdvd are using the not so easy method of implementing dxva..... If so I'm quite saddened :(

I do not know the file referred to but if it is either MPEG-2 or WMV3 then certainly the filters internal to MPC are not capable of DXVA whereas those from CyberLink and Microsoft are -and the 7600GT can provide it.

The 7600GT can also provide partial (significant) DXVA of AVC and VC-1 with CyberLink but of course not ffmpeg.

Conversely, newer cards such as ATI HD series which provide complete DXVA for AVC and VC-1 provide less acceleration for MPEG-2 and none for WMV3.

[DrNein]

That is definitely not correct- Cyberlink decoders are free to be used by any application.

Please explain how to use CyberLink VC-1 decoder in MPC-HC. Certainly, it can be added as an External Filter but as I understand it cannot be used -unlike CyberLink AVC and MPEG-2 which can.

Renderless is needed to remove tearing using Direct 3D fullscreen also.

Yes and other features which may not be needed or desired too such as resizing and shader effects.

[jos99]

Its actually advertised as 1080i, my apologies but

MPC says its using MPC Video Decoder and the details of the video are
Video: Windows Media Video 9 1440x810 29.97fps 8192Kbps

The filename is ksc_080707_118_launch_1080i.wmv approx 102mb in size.

Interestingly I have a 1080p video (another shuttle launch, this one with .mpg extension) that is actually showing much lower cpu usage (around 92%)

MPC says its using mpeg-2 video decoder and the details of the video are
Video: MPEG2 Video 1920x1080 29.97fps 20000Kbps

== So i suppose to summarize. ==

Problem 1 -> For us poor people on older graphics cards, the MPC Video Decoder seems to be almost twice as slow as microsoft and cyberlink decoders. (Im sure there are advantages to the mpc video decoder, I just have yet to figure out what they are)

Problem 2 -> When using the MPC Homecinema, if I CTRL-ALT-DEL while a video is playing to get to my task manager, the video seems to get caught up and freezes, sometimes windows actually reports the program is not responding immediately, sometimes the video will return to life 10 seconds later with a 100~ pixel green semi opaque bar at the bottom of the image.

If I can provide any details to help figure this out. I wouldn't like media player 11 to have 1 up on this great player in any situation.

====
OK, I got the video (STS-118 Launch from here (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/HDGalleryCollection_archive_1.html)). The videos with a Windows icon are WMV9 which cannot be accelerated by the MPC decoder. Using MPC-HC I got about 29% average on the 1080i wmv9 file (using the MPC decoder) and about 20% average using the WMV decoder in WMP11. The quicktime version of the file is SVQ3 format and gives about 34% usage in MPC-HC (all figures using Radeon HD 3200 and 64x2 5000+). Some of the other NASA quicktime videos are h.264 so can use DXVA no problem (e.g. "Exploring the Moon" 1080i h.264 gives 4% average usage).

Please explain how to use CyberLink VC-1 decoder in MPC-HC. Certainly, it can be added as an External Filter but as I understand it cannot be used -unlike CyberLink AVC and MPEG-2 which can.

OK, I didn't realise you meant the VC-1 decoder specifically so no I do not know if that is possible- I do know that PowerDVD has never accelerated VC-1 for me but MPC-HC does it perfectly.

[xiulet]

That is is a known "handicap" of ATI cards, they use the MS-recommended, but wrong colorspace conversion. To fix this, there's two methods:


XP: Regedit.exe, add string "UseBT601CSC"="1" under

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{GUID}\0000]

(search for the correct GUID number which has the 0000 "subfolder").


Vista: Regedit.exe, add string "UseBT601CSC"="1" under

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{GUID}\0000\UMD\DXVA]

(search for the correct GUID number which has the 0000 "subfolder").


You should immediately get the correct levels again. What it does is use the ITU-R BT.601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._601) colorspace conversion instead of the wrong MS-recommended CSC. Then you don't need none of these "TV -> PC" workarounds or anything.

is this ok?

http://www.papuweb.com/fotoweb/forum/usebt6001.png


thank you so much for this "gorgeous" mediaplayer, adéu

[_xxl]

I do not know the file referred to but if it is either MPEG-2 or WMV3 then certainly the filters internal to MPC are not capable of DXVA whereas those from CyberLink and Microsoft are -and the 7600GT can provide it.

The 7600GT can also provide partial (significant) DXVA of AVC and VC-1 with CyberLink but of course not ffmpeg.
The 7xxx series are old and no MPC-HC developers is going to implement DXVA for those. There are a lot of issues, bugs, compatibility problems to fix. Adding latest ffdshow's libavcodec decoders (e)ac3, dca, mlp to MPC-HC is more important. Of course patches are welcomed.

[airwin]

I had the same problem
use the ATI uninstaller then reboot then reinstall 8.10
now all the 4.1 files I have play perfect with rev854
and I use another build for non dxva

Thanks, thanks, thanks! This solved all my DXVA problems. I've reinstalled 8.11 but uninstalled the driver previously.

[Shinigami-Sama]

Thanks, thanks, thanks! This solved all my DXVA problems. I've reinstalled 8.11 but uninstalled the driver previously.

yeah, the key is to use the real uninstaller with a reboot, then reinstall
otherwise the drivers just fail...

go go ATI...

[alexins]

Media Player Classic HomeCinema (x86), svn 902 (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/411/1/)
Media Player Classic HomeCinema (x64), svn 902 (http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/view/410/1/)

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

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

Fix : crash in "Option/output" and toggle fullscreen on computer with pseudo monitors

[john12ik2]

Would it be possible to add ISO support of dvd?

Other players like vlc or smplayer can open dvd ISO which is useful.

If it hasn't been done because it's a lot of work then since vlc and smplayer are open source as well as mpc, would it be possible to just use code from the other players in mpc?

[moshmothma]

Thanks for the great work on MPC-HC. Using any version of the standalone filters - I get video stuttering when using h264 in an mkv container. I use the MPC Matroska source and splitter, mpc-hc video codec (DXVA), vmr9.

Thanks again

[73ChargerFan]

mosh - use Haali's splitter for matroska (and ogg).

[tal.aloni]

Would it be possible to add ISO support of dvd?
Just mount it with deamon-tools!

[SeeMoreDigital]

Just mount it with deamon-tools!Indeed... This is what I (along with others) have done :)

That said, what I'd find useful is an "option" (in MPC-HC) that could automatically mount .ISO files with Daemon Tools.

[Shinigami-Sama]

Indeed... This is what I (along with others) have done :)

That said, what I'd find useful is an "option" (in MPC-HC) that could automatically mount .ISO files with Daemon Tools.

or alcohol
but in alcohol you can give it a shell extension right click->mount
but then that means opening the box... closing the box... opening the dvd...

but yeah, playing ISOs is one feature I'd like as well

[73ChargerFan]

That said, what I'd find useful is an "option" (in MPC-HC) that could automatically mount .ISO files with Daemon Tools.
I second this request.

[moshmothma]

mosh - use Haali's splitter for matroska (and ogg).

Same problem. It looks like half of the frames are discarded when using mkv with h264. thx

[moshmothma]

MPC's Splitter detects MLP streams in a container however, it seems to only want to connect to a filter for ac3. However, if I use it with FFDshow the full MLP is decoded. Could the splitter be coded to recognize the full MLP stream and the core AC3 stream as separate audio? Thanks

[SeeMoreDigital]

Just checked Daemon TOOLS web site and found some "auto-mounting" scripts here: -

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=2

Could something like this be incorporated into MPC HC?

[draggoon01]

Just checked Daemon TOOLS web site and found some "auto-mounting" scripts here: -

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=2

Could something like this be incorporated into MPC HC?

some people use Daemon
some people use Alcohol 120%
some people use Virtual CloneDrive
some people use VirtualDrive Pro
etc
etc

rather than Daemon scripts or any application specific scripts, the simpler and better solution would be to support ISO files directly through MPC like other players do.

[Leak]

rather than Daemon scripts or any application specific scripts, the simpler and better solution would be to support ISO files directly through MPC like other players do.
Yeah, because every media player needs to include low level ISO9660 and UDF filesystem parsers... :rolleyes:

What's next, an NTFS parser so you don't have to mount your data partition?

np: Rhythm & Sound ft. Sugar Minott - Let Jah Love Come (Sweet Substance Remix) (See Mi Yah Remixes)

[draggoon01]

Yeah, because every media player needs to include low level ISO9660 and UDF filesystem parsers... :rolleyes:

What's next, an NTFS parser so you don't have to mount your data partition?

np: Rhythm & Sound ft. Sugar Minott - Let Jah Love Come (Sweet Substance Remix) (See Mi Yah Remixes)

1) i never said *need* . you're arguing against a point i never made :rolleyes:

2) your NTFS parser point is a straw man argument :rolleyes:

[Leak]

1) i never said *need* . you're arguing against a point i never made :rolleyes:
No, you didn't say "need". You said you wanted MPC to read ISO files directly - which is kinda hard without file system parsers, though. :rolleyes:

np: Rhythm & Sound with Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work (See Mi Yah)

[draggoon01]

No, you didn't say "need". You said you wanted MPC to read ISO files directly - which is kinda hard without file system parsers, though. :rolleyes:

np: Rhythm & Sound with Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work (See Mi Yah)

sigh



statement 1 by you:

Yeah, because every media player needs to include low level ISO9660 and UDF filesystem parsers...


statement 2 by me:

i never said *need* . you're arguing against a point i never made



statement 3 by you:

No, you didn't say "need". You said you wanted MPC to read ISO files directly - which is kinda hard without file system parsers, though



from statement 1 to statement 3 you shifted ground, from what "every media player needs" to what a feature needs in order to be implemented.

[littleD]

Is that hard to mount from explorer context menu and then go to file>> open disc? Almost all programs integrate with shell and daemon made it recently too. Just double click and u are done:)

[3ds]

I had the same problem
use the ATI uninstaller then reboot then reinstall 8.10
now all the 4.1 files I have play perfect with rev854
and I use another build for non dxva
Here it doesn't work.

I uninstall ATI Drivers, reboot and install the last 8.11.
MPC-HC (last SVN 902) doesn't used DXVA with ffdshow or with the Cyberlink codec. Equal witch DirectShow output mode i used.

The problem was MPC-HC used ffdshow, but i have activated the internal h264-DXVA Filter and i blocked ffdshow. But he still used ffdshow. Only after i deinstall ffdshow, the internal Filter would be used and with it DXVA workes, now :)

[mikegun]

the issue on my system is not that dxva was not used, but
when it's used there are some serious problems (picture jumping with internal filter or pixelation with cyberlink decoder - while cyberlink works on my lcd monitor but not on
my hd tv where resolution is 1920x1080).

reinstalling drivers didn't help

dxva works with dvbviewer+cyberlink decoder
dxva works with powerdvd and BR/HD DVD playback

my system is windows xp sp2 ati2600 agp

[Leak]

from statement 1 to statement 3 you shifted ground, from what "every media player needs" to what a feature needs in order to be implemented.
Hello? Does the word "sarcasm" mean anything to you?

Emulating a CD/DVD drive is not a media player's job.

There are specialized apps to do that, and they do that seamlessly and without the need to make every file-reading function in the player aware that they're not operating on a regular file system.

How about using said apps' ways of mounting and letting Windows' autoplay feature handle the rest, i.e. starting MPC?

[nitec]

Hi,

Is it possible to add MPC option presets and calling them with command line switch like /preset "preset name" ? If adding that is so much to hassle maybe a .ini loading switch like /inifile "ini file name" ? That would do it too.

[nae1986]

MPC-HC currently has switches to register audio and video files ("/regaud" and "/regvid") and to unregister all ("/unregall"). It would be good to have a switch ("/regall") for registering all types (and autoplay items), similar in functionality to the "All" button from "Formats".

Could you tell me if this can be implemented in a future release?

[TheShadowRunner]

Hey guys, where is the place to grab the latest standalone filters?
I couldn't locate the standalone packages on xvidvideo.ru (if they're there at all)
Later,

TSR

[DrNein]

Hi,

Is it possible to add MPC option presets and calling them with command line switch like /preset "preset name" ? If adding that is so much to hassle maybe a .ini loading switch like /inifile "ini file name" ? That would do it too.

Functionality akin to that can be had by copying the exe (either different names or locations). The ini file is automatically generated in the same folder with the same name (or an existing one could be copied with the matching name so as to carry over the settings initially).

Examples:
mplayerc.exe
mplayerc-svn.exe
mplayerc-hd.exe
mplayerc-bink.exe (version 6.4.7.5 associated with bik files)

[littleD]

Hey guys, where is the place to grab the latest standalone filters?
I couldn't locate the standalone packages on xvidvideo.ru (if they're there at all)
Later,

http://www.xvidvideo.ru/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,18/Itemid,11/

[TheShadowRunner]

Thanks a bunch littleD ;)

[nitec]

Functionality akin to that can be had by copying the exe (either different names or locations). The ini file is automatically generated in the same folder with the same name (or an existing one could be copied with the matching name so as to carry over the settings initially).

Examples:
mplayerc.exe
mplayerc-svn.exe
mplayerc-hd.exe
mplayerc-bink.exe (version 6.4.7.5 associated with bik files)

Thanks for the tip.

[hdboy]

I'd like to put in a request for a bigger trackbar and scroll thumb, with more contrasting colors. The current ones are pretty small and gray on gray. It's fine when you're just sitting 3' in front of your monitor. Kind of hard to see and manipulate when you're sitting 10' away from a 1920x1080 HDTV.

[cweb]

A little request to convert registry settings to ini file settings.
When you currently switch your settings aren't carried over...

[ikarad]

When will a new final version release with a full support of HD-audio (MLP etc...) without bug, full support of PG. subtitles without bug?
I ask because the actual version (1.1.604) and the beta versions don't work very well.

[amango]

Hi! I am planning to buy a new notebook with Intel GMA 4500 HD onboard graphics. Does MPC support this chipset?

[cweb]

mplayer was working for me, now I'm getting:
mplayerc.exe - Entry Point Not Found, and this message
"The procedure entry point FileTimeToSyl$<box>mTime coudl not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"

Any ideas? perhaps a reboot would help..
[edit: A reboot solved the problem which had occurred after running Visual Studio 2008 and playing with com objects.. wonder why VS seems to mess up the system ..]