Media Player Classic - BE Win32/x64

[xiringu]

I didn't know there were image based subtitles...hehehe

It's not a big deal. At first, I thought mpc-be might had a bug, but I didn't do any research on .sup.

Thanks

[groen]

In the latest version of mpc-be 64bit the option to disable the built in audio switcher seems to have been removed.

Is that for a reason? Should that be enabled even though i am using lav filters and disable all the internal filters?

[romulous]

In the latest version of mpc-be 64bit the option to disable the built in audio switcher seems to have been removed.

The ability to disable it has been removed from MPC-BE (see the discussion on pages 111-113).

romulous

[xiringu]

OK, I've noticed the following in a few movies, and I think it's time to ask about it:

Sometimes, a movie starts OK, but after a while (30min or whatever, for example, on soccer games I notice the second half is worse than the first) it starts getting choppier. The first few times I thought it was because it was online sports recorded, so there was a chance that there was a lag problem.

But the other thing that I can't understand is that even mpc-be interface gets a bit more lag as well. For example, when I move the mouse so I can see the time bar. If I click on the first minutes of the movie, mpc-be responds fast as usual, but if I click to the end of the movie, when I want to see the time bar,it gets slow and sometimes I can see a glitch where the bar should be, so there's something wrong, whatever it is (I don't know if it's a memory problem or what, but everything else seems ok).

To make myself clear:

1) I start movie -> everything ok.
2) I click somewhere 2/3 of the movie -> lag on movie and mpc-be interface
3) I click at the beggining of the movie again -> everything ok again

Anybody else experienced something similar?

Of course, there's the possibility that on a faster computer, you don't notice anything, but I don't think it's normal that there's a difference between the beggining and the end of a movie.

BTW I have 2GB ram, and there's plenty unused, but it might be something with big files (2-4GB), or long movies (1.5 hours+). I'm not sure about this, anyway.

Does it take more CPU or memory to process the end of big file movies than the beggining?

Thanks

[Berrypicker]

I have managed to solve most issues I've encountered but this one in particular I am having to address here. If anybody else can replicate this issue, please give assurance.

Having set "Remember File position", double clicking a file within a playlist does not do this. It starts playing from 0. Only when playing a single file by clicking it in the file explorer, it is remembered. I would definitely like for playlists to remember file locations, as I use this feature on a daily basis.

Exact issue has been resolved here for MPC-HC:
https://trac.mpc-hc.org/ticket/3304
I have tested this on MPC-HC and it does what I expect. Hope to see this being fixed for the beloved MPC-BE!

[Aleksoid1978]

I have managed to solve most issues I've encountered but this one in particular I am having to address here. If anybody else can replicate this issue, please give assurance.

Having set "Remember File position", double clicking a file within a playlist does not do this. It starts playing from 0. Only when playing a single file by clicking it in the file explorer, it is remembered. I would definitely like for playlists to remember file locations, as I use this feature on a daily basis.

Exact issue has been resolved here for MPC-HC:
https://trac.mpc-hc.org/ticket/3304
I have tested this on MPC-HC and it does what I expect. Hope to see this being fixed for the beloved MPC-BE!

Thanks for report. Done.

[Ceremony]

Why doesn't mpcbe allow seeking in flash movies? It works like a charm in mpchc.

It also shows the current frame out of the overall frames in the bottom right, but the seekbar itself is nearly completely gone. You can only see it when its over the filename, as the text gets highlighted.

[Aleksoid1978]

Why doesn't mpcbe allow seeking in flash movies? It works like a charm in mpchc.

It also shows the current frame out of the overall frames in the bottom right, but the seekbar itself is nearly completely gone. You can only see it when its over the filename, as the text gets highlighted.

This is already fixed.

[Berrypicker]

Thanks for report. Done.
Thank you! Will the coming nightly build release fix this?
There is also another small issue I can point out.

I have my playlist detached from the MPC-BE player and I have a dual monitor setup. When the playlist window is on the non-primary monitor (secondary), it does not automatically play the next video on the playlist after one file finishes playing. It will be paused at the beginning of the next video, and you must click play. However, this is not an issue with Youtube links, only with local files this occurs. When the playlist window is located on the primary window, it automatically plays the next video like it should on the player. Even when the player is on the secondary.

I avoid this issue by simply having the playlist on the primary monitor, and having the player fullscreened on my secondary. The monitors were arranged according to this issue.

This is also an MPC-HC issue, and nobody has noticed this as far as I know. Let me know if this is replicated!

[Aleksoid1978]

Berrypicker
Temporary official forum and the svn server does not work.

About playlist bug - I'll see what the problem is.

[mood]

No news with nightly build release???

[minegroasprilla]

hey Aleksoid1978, where are your new releases? and with installer.EXE?

[Warner306]

I am having focus problems when using MPC-BE as an external player with Kodi Entertainment Center. When a video is launched, I lose the ability to control it with a mouse or remote. The controls default to the panel underneath, Kodi, and all control over MPC-BE is lost.

MPC-HC does not exhibit this behavior. When I launch a file, even when MPC-HC is launched over the Kodi interface, I still retain focus and remote control of MPC-HC until playback is stopped.

Is there any hope of correcting this behavior or am I doomed to use the inferior MPC-HC?

[Aleksoid1978]

Warner306
Set this setting:
http://i.imgur.com/ineI0zd.png

[Warner306]

Thanks Aleksoid, but, believe it or not, that still didn't fix it. I tried each option individually and I still can't maintain focus on the player.

I have a laptop with an Intel HD3000 and Kodi Entertainment Center and it does not exhibit this behavior. But my HTPC with a Nvidia GTS 450 does.

It's not the end of the world; MPC-HC was working fine, but I thought there was a chance for an incremental upgrade. I might try updating my driver software as a last resort.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hmmm... Your first two posts on the forum... How rude!

[xiringu]

I've got a question about the "Go to" option.

I have a series of movies that all have 45 seconds of titles at the beginning, so I thought of using this option to skip to 00:45 everytime.

The thing is that it doesn't remember that number and instead everytime I do Ctrl+G it's set to the current time in the movie.

Is this the desired behaviour? Or could it be changed to remember that last time entered?

Also it could be useful to add an option to auto skip x seconds at the beginning of every movie. :)

Thanks

[v0lt]

@xiringu
You can try to use the /start and /startpos commands.

These options, we will not do.

[xiringu]

@v0lt:

thanks, I'll try that.

BTW, anybody knows if it's possible to replicate youtube's autoplay in mpc-be?

with autohotkey maybe?

I like that option, but I just don't want to use flash on my computer (90% cpu).

[v0lt]

@xiringu
View->Options->Miscellaneous->Jump distances
You could find it yourself.

[v0lt]

MPC-BE v1.4.3 -dev build 5736 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/MPC-BE/Nightly%20Builds%20%28from%20svn%20trunk%29/MPC-BE%20v1.4.3%20-dev%20build%205736/)

[mood]

MPC-BE v1.4.3 -dev build 5736 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/MPC-BE/Nightly%20Builds%20%28from%20svn%20trunk%29/MPC-BE%20v1.4.3%20-dev%20build%205736/)

thank you :)

[Berrypicker]

Tested just now. Great to see both my issues solved!

Thank you very much. I will keep you guys updated if I find anything else!

:thanks:

[xiringu]

@v0lt:

I use that option a lot to skip during sports. I simply didn't realise I could use it for this as well.

Thanks for the tip. :)

[Manni]

@Aleksoid

First of all, thanks a lot for your excellent work. I love MPC-BE!

I have one small feature request. At the moment, it's only possible to enable or disable the OSD.

The only thing that I would like to be able to disable is the name of the file displayed when we launch a movie, as I find this distracting, especially when we play say an intro, then a trailer then the movie with MyMovies.
Otherwise I find it really useful to be able to display some OSD info like time remaining etc.

Could we either have an option to disable this (and only this) OSD message, or alternatively a way to enable/disable OSD with a keyboard shortcut, so we could disable OSD by default but enable it if we need, for example, to display total/remaining time during movie playback?

I know it's a very small thing, but that's the only thing that annoys me now that MyMovies supports MPC-BE directly and beautifully.

Thanks again and I hope this request will make it to your to do list :)

[pie1394]

I think there is something that I did not catch up with. Currently I can only make MPC-BE 1.4.3.5311 work with XySubFilter 3.1.0.xxx. With the recent MPC-BE beta versions, XySubFilter is not shown on the active filter list.

Is there any necessary change in the settings to make it work?

ps: The subtitle files are external .ass format. Other preferred filters are LavFilter/Video/Audio 0.63. Video renderer is madVR 0.87.11.

Thanks!

[Aleksoid1978]

I check - work fine. For loading external subtitles - in XySubFilter's settings use "Loading" -> "Always load". In MPC-BE uncheck "Use the built-in subtitle renderer".

[pie1394]

I check - work fine. For loading external subtitles - in XySubFilter's settings use "Loading" -> "Always load". In MPC-BE uncheck "Use the built-in subtitle renderer".

Thank you for the hint! :thanks:

Now I have figured out why XySubFilter is not loaded with the new MPC-BE version. With the recent new MPC-BE versions, XySubFilter's "Loading" -> "Load when needed" option does not work any more.

[Aleksoid1978]

XySubFilter's "Loading" -> "Load when needed" working only if file have embedded subtitles, it's option never work for only external.

[pureocean]

@Aleksoid1978:

About HEVC support of MPCVidDec.ax...

This HEVC video playing is frames dropped in last two build (5736 and 5765):
http://ge.tt/api/1/files/2IcxVK72/0/blob?download
FPS: 17~19

But... No problem in build 5617 of MPCVidDec. FPS: 25.

[Aleksoid1978]

pureocean
Don't confirm:
http://i.imgur.com/ta6kO5j.png

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

[pureocean]

@Aleksoid1978:

Thank you so much for your interest and screenshots.

Yes. I just tried on MPC-BE. No problem!: http://i.imgur.com/uwLbaXX.jpg

But... Potplayer with MPCVidDec 5765:
http://i.imgur.com/RWZ5Ejr.jpg

Potplayer with MPCVidDec 5617:
http://i.imgur.com/lCmOSkx.jpg

I think, this issue can be only related to Radeon HD 3200 and NT 5.2.

I tried 1.6.51529 and and 1.6.50447 of Potplayer. No change.

***

Meanwhile, another a issue:

I still use build 1.6.50447 of Potplayer. Because last versions of potplayer is incompatible with MPCVidDec.ax (versions doesn't matter). How? If a few times press to END key (jump the line of subtitle), Potplayer is suddenly crashing. But this problem not occured in Cyberlink video decoder. I reported the issue to ahahlive (Potplayer's developer). Responded: "I cannot represent at all". :)

[Aleksoid1978]

I do some checks - PotPlayer drop frames only with VMR9(r) + VMR Mixing. Drop frames also with LAVVideo. But what interesting - on you HEVC sample internal PotPlayer video decoder show black screen :)

P.S. I do additional check - work fine with LAVSource or MPC Matroska Source. So - bug in Pot's Matroska source, it's set incorrect timestamp.

[Aleksoid1978]

pureocean
Here fixed version. It's don't have issue with PotPlayer's MKV Source.
http://aleksoid.voserver.net/MPC-BE/MPCVideoDec.ax_1.4.3.5768.7zhttp://aleksoid.voserver.net/MPC-BE/MPCVideoDec.ax_1.4.3.5768.7z

[pureocean]

@Aleksoid1978:

Just tried 5768. It's fixed: http://i.imgur.com/f433wm7.jpg

Again, you helped me. Thank you Aleksoid, thank you very much for your fix.

And second again thanks. Also crashing issue is fixed when END or SHIFT+CTRL arrow or left/right arrow key pressing in Potplayer.
How? Help me your refer. I changed MKV source filter to MPC from internal. To be honest, until now nothing could be further
from my mind. :)
As result, this also issue fixed. I will report to pot's developer.
Best regards...

[salam2009]

Hey Aleksoid1978,
The "Auto Update Check" feature can't be disabled! The check gets back on its own! I'm using v1.4.3.5736 (x32).
Any thoughts?
Thanks!

[v0lt]

&salam2009The "Auto Update Check" feature can't be disabled!For me works fine.

Any thoughts?The settings are stored in the INI file?

[salam2009]

@v0lt
No in Registry and I tried there either but the same thing!

[v0lt]

@salam2009
You can not uncheck the option? It turns on again?

[salam2009]

@v0lt
Well, I can but it gets checked back again after a few hours but I think I sorted out by increasing how long to check to something more than 30 days!

Cheers,
Salaam

[amayra]

i manage to play video with wine somehow but i can't debug to know why i cant use madvr :confused:

[agustin9]

madvr is only 32bit, maybe you're using the 64bit version of mpcbe?

[cruzer]

Happy New Year Everybody!

[arrgh]

slowed-down DVD-Video choppy

why is the EVR playing this Clip so choppy and "slow" if in Direct3D-mode @23.976fps; only if I go to 48fps it is ok...am I missing some settings in the Decoder or elsewhere, or is the file defective?

this Clip was generated by eac3to "-slowdown" Option:
https://mega.co.nz/#!ntUUkS6R!SUPCxfy6YxNO0qWcr8A6vJiwRyRPKN1fM9JLt3Y2hZ4

[v0lt]

@arrgh
Because interlaced.
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First

[arrgh]

@v0lt

...yes, but not really...its a DVD, which should have simply the two half-fields one after the other...

in the Mpeg-DVD-Decoder I have set the deinterlace to "Weave"...so, I thought that should do the trick to bring the two fields back to 720x576p23Hz.....?



edit :
...which should in the worst case give a bad deinterlacing result, but should play ok...
or, to put it in other words : why can PowerDVD play this without problems at a TV-set refresh rate of 23 Hz...

[v0lt]

@arrgh
Most MPEG2 decoders output the fields separately. So reliable.

And.
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : PAL
720x576 (PAL) and 23.976 fps :confused:
Something's wrong here.

[huhn]

the file work as it should be.
the pal 25i file was slowdown to 23i (24000/1001) which is not an official spec of DVD, BD or any me known broadcast.

because the file is still interlaced it is deinterlaced from EVR CP using DXVA deinterlacing to 47p (48000/1001). the weave option doesn't over write this.

I guess powerDVD isn't deinterlacing after seeing the refreshrate like madVR.

[shaolin95]

Hi guys!
I have a 5.1 to 7.1 analog output question.
Since I got 7 speakers, when a movie only has 5.1 audio, only the rears work. Is there no option or plugin that upmixes to 7.1 in MPC or lav filters etc? I have tried some stuff but nothing works.
Thanks!

[arrgh]

@huhn
yes, the file was slowed down (by eac3to)...that is done by many people for some time who want to view movies in original speed...
ok, Bluray is becoming more and more popular; but for TV series DVD is still an option, if you do not have unlimited HDD Volumen; thats why eac3to provides this option to slow down ... but this does not make any sense if the slowdown works only for audio and no for Video...