Watching video under Windows 10

[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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