[chococya96]

UPDATE: CHANGED THE TOPIC SO I CAN GET SPECIFIC REPLIES AND ANSWERS!!!

Okay, I've decided to stick with KMPlayer and I just need to configure it to play H.264 videos (720p, 1080p) smoothly, clearly and nicely with good quality.

Before, I just installed CoreAVC and installed it in KMplayer and that's it.

But after I got my new computer + new monitor (24inch Widescreen 1920x1080 Full HD resolution), it seems that I need to do MORE than just installing CoreAVC to run H.254 videos smoothly in my new comp and new monitor. So, happen to find this site [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] a guide, telling me how to set KMplayer properly.

So, I just want to know if I did a right thing in following that guide I mentioned above... if not, please specify what I need to change.

HOWEVER, after I followed that guide, and this never happend before, when I play "some" 720p files (not all of them, just some), the screen is black... I mean I can hear the audio clearly like you normally do and the video is running smoothly but the video screen turns black whenever I play these files...
Did I touched something I'm not suppose to during configuration?? because when I used other players to play these files, there is nothing wrong and it plays smoothly, so there is no problem with the files.

I know that I wrote this twice to change the topic but I need help urgent asap!!!! and don't tell me to use Windoes player or other players as I'm stuck with using this player.

Thanks a lot guys really appreciate you help!!

[Oonganamea]

Did you change the video renderer, cuz the standard install one is really shit.

[WsE]

You ask for help more often than I change underwear :|

http://www.animetake.com/faq/

Or:
I suggest installing CoreAVC 2.0. Install CCCP Beta.
CCCP Settings -> check CoreAVC (under Alternative H.264 Decoders)
Next > -> check “VSFilter Subpicture Pre-Buffering”

Good to go to watch anything.

[chococya96]

Originally Posted by Oonganamea

Did you change the video renderer, cuz the standard install one is really shit.

Alright, how do you do that for KMplayer??

Originally Posted by WsE

You ask for help more often than I change underwear :|

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Or:
I suggest installing CoreAVC 2.0. Install CCCP Beta.
CCCP Settings -> check CoreAVC (under Alternative H.264 Decoders)
Next > -> check “VSFilter Subpicture Pre-Buffering”

Good to go to watch anything.

lol, that means you've been paying attention my posts

Yeah, I've installed CoreAVC... and it seems there were not much difference...

I don't know man... maybe it's just that I'm thinking too much but the "video quality" it self is kind of shit imo...

Oh and it says in the FAQ that don't use KMPlayer... and download CCCP..

Than what player do I use??

[WsE]

Well. If you take these "720" releases (most are upscales, mind you) and toss them up full screen on your monitor, yeah the outcome will be shit. The only files you can really do this with are proper bluray releases. (Not those awful 60mb mini-encodes of bluray that exist for who knows what reason as that ruins the point of bluray.)

Maybe you should try to watch a few different things and look at the outcome. For all we know whatever you're trying to watch could be awful quality ^^

[Oonganamea]

The one that comes with CCCP,, Media Player Classic.

To do that in KMPlayer, go to Preferences -> Video Processing -> Renderer and change the renderer until you get a better picture.

[chococya96]

Thanks a lot guys really appreciate your help

I've just installed the CCCP and followed your step WsE. I hope this can improve the video quality...

As for changing the renderer, it was set to "VMR9 Windowed". And there are heaps of renderer and I don't know what to choose from... for starters, should I choose Haali's video renderer?? since I installed the CoreAVC and CCCP??

Edit: Speaking of video quality, I'm not sure if I'm using the right sound quality.... argh this is giving me an headache...

[quenari]

all i use is wmp 12 +cccp
vfs buffer is really only needed if the OP and ED are softsubbed and you lag
also if you trying to watch standard def <480p> on a 24 inch widescreen LCD, yea its gonna look like shit get the 720p

[jorgito_55]

ok, if you dont know anything at all, you just need to know the basics.

before all codecs or anything.

1. Display. If you use a 480p video in a 24in display (specially if your display is set to a 1920x1080 resolution) the video will suck. If you use a 720p on it it will be ok, pretty good actually. And if you use 1080p videos it will be perfect with any player you use (most of the times). Now taking into consideration the fact that most of the anime is in 720p, i would recommend you adjust your settings for a 720p computer.

First of all, check which resolutions better fit your display. New displays can have up to 10 resolutions. Most of the times the higher resolution is the best suited for the display, but it will be the best only for a 100% of the video zoom, if the video is 480p and you zoom it to fit a 1080 it will amplify how bad it looks.

The most important thing to find a fitting resolution is the aspect ratio. mine for example is a 1280x800 (meaning its not a 16:9 as most of the anime comes in now so it leaves a narrow black bar at the top and bottom on full screen). You need t to find the ratio that better works for your pc. For example mine is a 15.4in is it were a 15.6 its ratio would be a 16:9 (either 1280x720 or 1360x765). You can check all the options in the list of your settings and just check by reading a black text over a white background on a small (yet not minute) font and make sure the are no gray traces behind or right nest to each letter (which is what happens to a zoomed video, but its easier to check on text). The nearest this resolution is to a 1280x720, the better it is.

Yes, keeping the highest resolution (1920x1080) for a full HD will give you the best quality for the display itself, but its like setting the bar to high for the 720p videos to keep up with it. SO that's why it doesn't look as perfect as it did in other (specially smaller) displays.

Most of the times display will have 2 or 3 resolutions in which it will look the best. I have a lot of practice doing this because in all of my school labs, the computers always are set to the same resolutions no matter what size or aspect ratio they have, so it gives me an eye cancer just trying to read so i have to do this process twice a day.

2. Player. If you are new, stick to Media player classic (MPC) which comes with the CCCP codec or DTLite codec (i use the second, though i haven't checked the newest CCCP Beta). The default settings that come with this codec are quite enough.

Other players often require to change or specify codecs to be used. Since i almost never do that i cant help you there.

3. Lastly and the most important. You have to take into consideration the fact that a 720p not always is really a 720p. Sometimes the videos uploaded are just upscales of 480. This means that the 100% of the original video, is a 480p but it has already been "zoomed" by the encoder, this gives you "twice" as much quality as just doing a full screen, but "half" as much quality as having an original 720p. So even if you use the zoom option in 100% or look at the properties of the video and it says 1280x720 its not necessarily true.


Hope this helps, if you need anything else, just ask.

[digritz]

Me likes Zoom player with cora avc