25k budget - pc for office work / movies / music

[Skud]

^^Agreed, Jus made a comaprison of homecinema vs VLC in Hangover bluray...

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What are the filters you using?

 

[Cilus]

Nonody is taking my name in GPU accelerated Video playback... I'm kinda hurt... I think I started to tell everybody in the 1st place about the the beauty of it and gave Vicky a demo when I visted his house 1st time.

Skud, normally if you are playing a 720P movie, use the YV12Chroma upscaling, BT601 —> BT701 (supposed to be BT709) colour conversion. The former colour set is used in SD videos like DVD while the latter is used in HD videos like DVB-T broadcasts or even HD-DVD/Blu-ray movies. So it will improve the color of Non-HD videos

Description of Some other Shaders

16-235 –> 0-255. This improves the color depth of an image and always improves the quality. This can be set by Catalyst Control center or nvidia control panel in the Video quality section and you don't need to use it from MPC-HC.

sharpen complex, sharpen and edge sharpen: All three of them tried to achieve the same thing with different algorithms. In my opinion, sharpen complex comes first, then followed by edge sharpen and sharpen respectively.

 

[MegaMind]

playing a 720P movie, use the YV12Chroma upscaling, BT601 —> BT701 (supposed to be BT709) colour conversion. The former colour set is used in SD videos like DVD while the latter is used in HD videos like DVB-T broadcasts or even HD-DVD/Blu-ray movies. So it will improve the color of Non-HD videos

Cilus, can u go a bit deep here.. About where they should be adjusted?

 

[Cilus]

^^ Didn't get you. do you want to know how to enable the shaders in MPC-Home Cinema?

 

[MegaMind]

Oh, i got it.. while playing, everything is accessible.. reps for u n batman..

 

[vickybat]

Yup cilus has to be credited for this and actually he showed me the effect of gpu accelerated videos personally when he visited my house. I was spellbound when i saw the effects for the first time. He really knows a lot on video encoding, decoding and post processing effects and has taught me a lot of things.