Watching video under Windows 10

[Martin Gorbush]

Which application do you use to watch video with Windows 10 system?

I tried Media Player Classic – Home Cinema but playback wasn’t smooth. There were big “catch ups” beetween every few seconds. Very annoying. I tried video file streams compressed with H.264 L4.2 Hi profile decoded in hardware and H.264 L5.1 Hi10 profile in software mode.

Dissapointed with that result I installed Kodi 1.6.1. Video was smooth with both file from before but I’ve got some “suprices”. After watching video for about 15 minutes it became “jumbled with macroblocks” and even sound disapeared completely (even from system) till restart.

[Flubski]

VLC Media Player works well for me …

[Martin Gorbush]

Thanks for info. I will check this program.

I wish it can measure up to my favorite MPC-HC which on my PC with Windows 10 and integrated Intel HD GPU works flawlessly.

[Laura]

weird, i recall mpc-hc working fine

[Martin Gorbush]

Laura wrote:

weird, i recall mpc-hc working fine

Yes, it is really weird. What’s more strange is that today video is working flawlessly in MPC-HC.

I think that culprit might be my external display set as default. My failed video experiments was conducted on tablet without external TV connected. Now I am using external display but even if I disconnect it there is no problem watching video at least for now.

Background (if you are not interested then don’t read): On my first day with this tablet I connected it to my TV and even set it as only screen (WIN + P-> only second screen). Next day I had problems with connecting my tablet with external display (HDMI switch output isn’t correctly recognized under Windows 10 by Intel GPU driver) and I forfeit till today. When I have one more enabled device connected through HDMI switch then tablet can detect external display (that is clearly Intel driver team fault).

 

[dlink377]

Have you tried to enable hardware decoding on the MPC-HC? MPC-HC always works without problem, although it comes with the K-Lite Codec Mega Pack I usually install. VLC also works fine, but I found that it uses more battery.

[Martin Gorbush]

dlink377 wrote:

Have you tried to enable hardware decoding on the MPC-HC?

I’m almost sure that H/W decoding (DXVA2 native) is on by default in MPC-HC. At least I never needed to set it manually in contrast to VLC which required from me to change decoder settings. That’s why I suspect you might have used VLC without hardware video acceleration and that was the reason for higher power consumption.
Status bar (CTRL+5) in MPC-HC clearly shows if hardware decoding is in use ([H/W]). This is quite an advantage over VLC where I can’t find such indication. I used that program only few times and didn’t notice. What’s strange is that right now VLC player is crushing all the time just after start :(.

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