Best settings for DiVX playback on PC only?

[davidh44]

I have 2 computers with DX9 and PS 2.0 integrated graphics (nVidia Geforce 6100 and Intel GMA 950). They playback DiVX/XViD/MPEG1 video on the PC only. I have been using MPC 6.4.9.1 + FFDShow SSE build on all default settings.

Recently, I started reading about VMR9, rendering in 3D with PS 2.0 bilinear/bicubic, outputing strictly in YV12 or doing HQ conversion to RGB32, Haali's Video Renderer, etc. and most of it is over my head.

I'm basically looking for simple ways to offload some work from the CPU by taking advantage of the DX9 hardware acceleration capabilities of the graphics chips, and/or improve video playback quality without causing CPU usage to jump up significantly.

Do you have any suggestions on how to go about achieving this without having to do a lot of fine-tuning?

[Kado]

Get MPC HC v1.0.11.0, Haali renderer/matroska splitter, then make ffdshow output YUV2 and use haali renderer or EVR custom presenter so your GPU can do the colour conversion, saves some CPU power. Haali requires ps1.x minimum and evr 2.0. use 3d surfaces along with bicubic resizing (ps2.0) for evr.

[davidh44]

I've read that it is not recommended to use Haali Media Splitter to handle AVI files?

[Dark Shikari]

I've read that it is not recommended to use Haali Media Splitter to handle AVI files?This is correct. While it can do the job, I would never enable the feature unless you're having serious issues with other AVI splitters.

[davidh44]

This is correct. While it can do the job, I would never enable the feature unless you're having serious issues with other AVI splitters.

What do you recommend using in MPC, then, when watching compressed DiVX/XViD AVI files? Something that provides highest image quality when the clip is resized to fullscreen, while taking advantage of hardware acceleration from the graphics chip (i.e. overlay mixer, vmr9 windowed, vmr9 renderless, or ???)

[Dark Shikari]

What do you recommend using in MPC, then, when watching compressed DiVX/XViD AVI files? Something that provides highest image quality when the clip is resized to fullscreen, while taking advantage of hardware acceleration from the graphics chip (i.e. overlay mixer, vmr9 windowed, vmr9 renderless, or ???)The splitter is completely unrelated to both video decoding and quality.