I can't say for sure - haven't used MCP-HC of SMP that long, but they both seem to play all vids. IF you're doing heavy duty stuff, maybe VLC is better choice. SMPlayer has more options & configurable toolbars, but doesn't seem as complex to me as VLC. MPC-HC is simpler & not as many options but seems to play most vids just fine. You may also want to look at Media Player Classic - Home Cinema ( MPC-HC) & SMPlayer - both open source & popular. I swear sometimes settings get changed that I never touched, but it could be my memory going! You seem to have found the problem quickly, but if various settings are wrong, it can take days to experiment, if you're not an expert (I'm not). I see deinterlacing is off by default, thus my suggestion of resetting all prefs to default. That's not much of an issue for me because I usually just rip the main movie. It works better with dvd menus, which still aren't well supported by many players even after all this time. SMplayer plays dvd files just fine but actually I find powerdvd9 the best dvd software I've used. Windows has an annoying habit of wanting to resample your audio without it.īottom line, after all that, I guess is that you should have more than one media program. If you want to use an external usb dac for audio in windows you need that. PLus, best of all for me, they're finally adding wasapi driver support for audio. Vlc does have a decent interface and good playlist tools. I got sick of foobar's pitiful interface and documentation, and the fact that you can't even use a tree structured playlist without a 3rd party plugin and the possibile compatiblity problems with those. I blame myself for that as much as the smplayer writers. For some idiotic reason you can't do that at all in vlc 2.x. It has a much better menu structure, and you can adjust file stream cache size easily. Everyone things vlc is the "play anything" one but smplayer is much better at that. It's a gui for mplayer, which is an extremely robust linux port. I still have vlc installed, though my default video player is smplayer. I can play 1080p mkvs just fine (as long as they're properly encoded). Only problem there, that one's no longer secure for net streaming.įor the record I don't have non microsoft codec packs that could conflict with vlc and I only use programs like smplayer and vlc that don't need them. I've seen info that the last version of vlc that played dvd files properly was 1.0.5, and I found that was true. I suspect it's just vlc being buggy, as it is well known to be. Lots of people seem to have this problem, though apparently not all.
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