Question about Media Player Classic - HC

[RudeCurve]

I just installed this and was fooling around with the video filters and noticed the option to turn on bicubic filtering which makes videos VERY clear, however my videocard isn't fast enough to do it while keeping the framerate smooth.

What level video card does one need to be able to turn on bicubic filtering and keep the framerate smooth?

 

[MfA]

Not very high, just tried with an 3870 at 16x12 and it worked fine ... I'd guess even a 8600 would do. That said, reading the doom9 thread for MPC-HC I see there are quite a few people having problems at the moment so it might not be your video card.

If you have a decent CPU you could also just use FFDSHOW and have it resize it to fullscreen with Lanczos (or bicubic if you really want).

 

[swaaye]

Depends on the resolution you need to output. SD resolutions are nothing for even a GeForce 7300.

 

[RudeCurve]

My LCD is 1680x1050 and the video(s) that I'm playing are 1280x720 MP4 format. Works fine using bilinear and VMR9 renderless but slows down under bicubic. BTW I'm using integrated Nvidia GeForce 7150 video chipset.

 

[Kaotik]

Try if EVR works better (For XP it requires installing .NET Framework 3, on Vista & Win7 it works right off the bat)

 

[RudeCurve]

Yeah I tried EVR already same slow framerate. I have all the .NET updates.

 

[Fallacy]

Are you sure that bicubic filtering is gpu hardware accelerated? Just have look at your CPU-Usage.

 

[Kaotik]

Are you sure that bicubic filtering is gpu hardware accelerated? Just have look at your CPU-Usage.

It uses PS2.0, so it's GPU-accelerated

 

[Fallacy]

Ok, sorry, didn´t see this. Thought just decoding is gpu accelerated.

 

[swaaye]

I'm not sure if I this was mentioned, but RudeCurve are you on XP or Vista/7? My 7300GT has problems with EVR and VMR on Vista/7 with Aero running. XP is much smoother/snappier and has lower CPU usage.

Also, I think that a 7150 is a 2 pipe GPU. Meaning you're asking a lot from it.

 

[RudeCurve]

I'm running XP SP3. I'm also thinking the 7150 isn't up to the task, just wanted to confirm with those familiar with MPC-HC. I'm getting about 20fps with bicubic so it's almost there but not quite.

 

[MfA]

If you have a C2D or better it really shouldn't have much trouble doing interpolation in software through FFDSHOW (which can use Lanczos, bicubic and a couple more).

 

[RudeCurve]

Thanks, I'll give FFDSHOW a shot, hopefully it'll work much better since I do have a C2D.