madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)

[Sunspark]

Originally Posted by flossy_cake

Is there an alternative media player that has options for this?

Yes, one powered with an mpv backend. There is a bug for what you want, which has been fixed, but it'll have to wait till the next release.

[mclingo]

Originally Posted by flossy_cake

I got an OLED and I watch a lot of 4:3 with black borders down the sides and I am worried about burn in over the next 5 years of watching 4:3 stuff.

Is it possible with madvr to do something with the borders like colour them grey instead of black?

Is there an alternative media player that has options for this?

Currently using MPC-HC and it has loadable shaders so I was thinking maybe a third party shader could be used to do that, maybe even something fancy like drawing a fake frosted glass reflection down the sides like the megabezel shader for retroarch

I really wouldn't worry about that at all, I have the first gen 4K LG Oled from 2015 and I use it anything from 4 to 8 hours a day and it's still in perfect condition with no issues at all with burnin, I can't speak for the brightness as it must have lost some but to me it seems like very little as it's still very bright (Was only about 450 nits to start with) as I watch most of my content in dim or no light anyway. I've only kept it this long because it's absolutely incredible with 3D MVC rips.

[mclingo]

Originally Posted by movieman

I have been seeing this crash in MadVR off and on recently.

Running Win 11 and beta 207.

I have attached the crash report.

Don't add images directly to this website they take ages to get approved if it's all use something else.

[kopija]

Originally Posted by Childofbodom

Hi All,

I am experiencing "presentation glitches" every second since updating my windows 11 to 24H2.

Could it be due to this issue?

[flossy_cake]

Originally Posted by Sunspark

Yes, one powered with an mpv backend. There is a bug for what you want, which has been fixed, but it'll have to wait till the next release.

Thanks
In the meantime I found Outer Lighting and Frosty Borders which are compatible with MPC-HC.

I will probably use FrostyBorders cause I already use avisynth to IVTC my 4:3 stuff in realtime so all i would have to do is add 1 line of avisynth code to all my scripts

[Sunspark]

Oh nice. I'll give you a heads-up when I see the release come out. It's not anything fancy, you just specify the colour in hex and it uses that instead of black.

[GoldenSW]

Can confirm Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling, or HAGS, causes playback issues, at least on W11 24H2 when using an RTX 2080 and i7 9700k. It caused judder (manifested as presentation glitches in the OSD) no matter what other settings I tried in madvr, mpc and windows. It's quite annoying for anyone who uses their PC for gaming as well since toggling requires restart. Also i noticed a decrease in rendering performance in the OSD with HAGS turned off, an average of about 5-10%. Is there any chance this will be patched one day or is the dev completely focused on madvr envy nowadays?

[huhn]

not officially dead yet but don't hold your breath.

[Perenista]

Why is madVR always enabling HDR (if we play a 4K video with it) when reinstalled, and when you want to find the option to disable it, is nowhere to be found? I deleted the K-Lite codec pack, so MPC-HC was gone. Reinstalled, and now I am facing this problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/htpc/commen...tes_hdr_on_my/

Found this thread, but the option is nowhere to be found (note: my LCD is the Acer XV280K-B).

If there's someone in charge of madVR here, please modify this thing so HDR is permanently disabled if such 4K videos are played, unless we explicitly tell madVR to do it. HDR was disabled in Windows 11, and still whenever such videos are played, my entire screen (from this 4K monitor) turns into gray. The sad thing is that I was able to disable this in the past, but forgot how to do it. Perhaps this monitor does not add a profile (?) in madVR, so that option mentioned by reddit isn't here. Another reason to force users to manually enable this and not force by default.

P.S. madVR was uninstalled, then reinstalled, too, and MPC-HC was brought back from here: https://www.videohelp.com/software/M...ic-Home-Cinema

Update:
After playing a few videos, oddly this appeared:



LET MADVR DECIDE was what caused this issue.

[clsid]

No, it did not suddenly appear, those options have been there forever.

To fix the device duplication and HDR detection issues you need to use a newer beta version of Madvr. That has slightly better compatibility with Windows 11.

[mclingo]

found a strange issue with 24 playback in madvr (not 23,976). If I play a 720p 24p video it plays fine and I get no frame slips, it correctly shows its upscalled to 2160p but if I play a 1080p video or higher it wont upscale to 2160p and my TV changes to 1080p mode and I get a frame drop every 40 seconds.

I tracked this down to my modes which I had set as:

2160p23, 2160p24, 2160p25, 2160p50, 2160p60, 1080p23

I had 1080p23 on there as ages ago I wasnt able to trigger 3D MVC mode without it, If I remove it the problem goes away, I could understand if I had 1080p24 In my modes I can see how that would cause it but not 1080p23 this should not cause this problem but it does.

As it turns out I dont need 1080p23 anymore as 3D works ok now So I have removed it permanently, its just a really odd MADVR bug Or is this somehow expected behaviour?


Here is 1080P version of the video
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https://1drv.ms/v/c/6240949ef769c50b...VbKhg?e=GowGqu

[huhn]

that's not a bug. if you add both it will use both if the resolution matches else the biggest will be used.

[Amuat]

Is there some kind of incompatibility between DV and D3D11 processing, as using it resorts to shaders with Chroma scaling when I've relegated this to D3D in the options? HLG/PQ sticks with DirectX. Also, with the same video OSD shows brightness jumping from 1000 to a whopping 4000 nits when choosing DV over HLG/PQ, which sounds quite insane.

[huhn]

madVR can't do dolby vision. what ever you do outside of madVR i don't know.

[mclingo]

Originally Posted by huhn

that's not a bug. if you add both it will use both if the resolution matches else the biggest will be used.

That isn't what is happening though, I did not have both 2160p24 and 1080p24 Modes added, I only had 2160p24 and 1080p23, So by that measure it should have upscaled the 1080p video to 2160P and played it correctly as 2160p24, Not only did it not upscale it, it played it at 1080p23 and dropped frames.

[huhn]

yes 1080p23 and 1080p24 is not big enough of a difference for madVR to consider that.

in general you shouldn't add anything that is not the native resolution.

[maxkolonko123]

Hey guys,

Looking for some help as my madvr stopped working/kicking in mpc hc. Recently I've changed avr nothing else was changed and today wanted to watch movie and noticed that madvr doesn't kick in, all settings etc are same as before so where I should look for a problem?

[ryrynz]

Originally Posted by maxkolonko123

Hey guys,

Looking for some help as my madvr stopped working/kicking in mpc hc. Recently I've changed avr nothing else was changed and today wanted to watch movie and noticed that madvr doesn't kick in, all settings etc are same as before so where I should look for a problem?

Reinstall and re-register would be my first action.

[LenniePaz]

I'm trying to make a rule but I can't get a green check mark telling me it's valid. I want a rule for my 3D rips that are mk3d files, and I don't want them using black bar detection. I made a profile called 3D with black bar detection disabled, so isn't this how the rule should be made?

if "mk3d"
else "3D"

[YGPMOLE]

I think it should be:

if (mk3d) "3D"
else "your other profile"