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Video Player doubt.

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/video-player-doubt.166056/

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AKP Original post #1
Nov 11, 2012 at 11:56 PM
I want suggestions regarding a good Video Player to play mainly 720p files of .avi, .mp4 and .mkv formats.

I tried using VLC, MPC-HC and the default Windows Player. Vlc looses quality compared to MPC-HC, could be due to settings etc.
I have a 2nd gen i5 + nvidia gt 540m. Is there any good player that uses gfx cards to render videos? I tried hardware acceleration in VLC and video was very buggy.


Need help ASAP. TY.
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whitestar_999 #2
Nov 12, 2012 at 12:18 AM
VLC is not recommended any more especially for hardware accelerated playback.try pot player(from the same person who developed very popular KMPlayer).it is the best player in my opinion for almost all playback related tasks.
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gameranand
gameranand #3
Nov 12, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Use GOM Player. Also Please look at other threads before making another one, there is one more thread lying around for the very same purpose. :)
axes2t2
axes2t2 #4
Nov 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM
I use WMP.

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rhitwick
rhitwick #5
Nov 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM
Use KMplayer. Its the best.
Flash
Flash #6
Nov 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Media Player Classic works best with AMD's Catalyst driver, if you enable some presets (can't remember it correctly) under VIDEO option.
There's a huge difference in playback between VLC & MPC, by this way.
Zangetsu
Zangetsu #7
Nov 12, 2012 at 5:25 PM
@AKP: use HXVA option in MPC:HC it will use gpu rendering
also have a look at same topic thread *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/165714-best-windows-video-player.html
gameranand
gameranand #8
Nov 12, 2012 at 7:12 PM
Ah again the same thing again and again. Guys let the OP read the previous thread in which we had abundance of Discussion and then decide. No need to fill up this thread also. :)
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RahulB #11
Nov 13, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Potplayer, give it a whirl... Guys KMPlayer is dead.. All the updates you see are small fixes nothing else.
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samfisher123 #12
Nov 22, 2012 at 6:34 PM
i suggest "Splash player" and media player classic with all plugins for pure hd formats .and they can play almost all formats (audio,video).
Zangetsu
Zangetsu #13
Nov 22, 2012 at 9:05 PM
samfisher123 said:
i suggest "Splash player" and media player classic with all plugins for pure hd formats .and they can play almost all formats (audio,video).
Click to expand...
Splash Player has got a fantastic UI but free version is limited...
although I tested the Video Quality with MPC..couldn't found any differences only subtitles edges were smooth in Splash Player....