Rudy Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 What triggered the 1.0? Because everyone else is doing it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkl Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 it's you. just move it, and you'll see it's semi-transparent. Actually, it's definitely not semi-transparent for me... And it was fine in RCs. :/ I guess I'll reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom01 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Still no DirectX wallpaper :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yxz Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Pixelated Video playback issue in Windows 7 solved yay!! :D still pixelated here ): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 still pixelated here ): You got to change the video output to opengl, earlier your PC would freeze using opengl at least now it works under opengl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted July 7, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted July 7, 2009 What's the pixelated issues relate to? If I fast forward a video it's pixelated for like a second then returns to normal, is that the issue? If so it's still doing that for me under Windows 7 on OpenGL. Anyway, not tried VLC in ages, I was using MPC-HC and ffdshow, might switch over to this. Do the VLC devs update the internal codecs fairly often? There's builds of ffdshow almost daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 What's the pixelated issues relate to? If I fast forward a video it's pixelated for like a second then returns to normal, is that the issue? If so it's still doing that for me under Windows 7 on OpenGL.Anyway, not tried VLC in ages, I was using MPC-HC and ffdshow, might switch over to this. Do the VLC devs update the internal codecs fairly often? There's builds of ffdshow almost daily. When we try playing video files with the video output set as default the playback will turn up pixelated as if watching an ultra low def video. Only way round was too change the output settings to directx but selecting this disabled aero in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpl183 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 When we try playing video files with the video output set as default the playback will turn up pixelated as if watching an ultra low def video. Only way round was too change the output settings to directx but selecting this disabled aero in windows. same here, and when i try directx, in which the picture is fine, the controls aren't shown anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acido00 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 and where is the new skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Pixelated Video playback issue in Windows 7 solved yay!! :D is it? Might be worth another shot then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted July 7, 2009 Veteran Share Posted July 7, 2009 not using hardware acceleration here in windows 7... been like this since windows 7 RC build... and previous versions of VLC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x9248 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Wow they finally made pausing more accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 still not on autoupdate (does it even work?) but meh downloading it anyway. thanks for the heads up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 not using hardware acceleration here in windows 7... been like this since windows 7 RC build... and previous versions of VLC Yeah. 1080p video in WMP12: about 1% cpu use. 1080p video in VLC 1.0: Pegs a full core, and doesn't even resize properly (Becomes very pixely. The resizing has been broken since I've used Windows 7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFiberOptics Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I like VLC, I just wish it had better subtitle display support. It's still very grainy/not smooth when using soft subtitles. It looks great in OS X, but bad in Linux and Windows. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Do you need a special graphics card or drivers for Hardware acceleration? I have Radeon x850xt and am using window 7 on a Quad 8200 at 2.80ghz. I am currently using MPClassic HT edition and it's using about 18% CPU on a 1080p MKV file. Will I find any improvement / performance / efficiency benefit on VLC 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Do you need a special graphics card or drivers for Hardware acceleration?I have Radeon x850xt and am using window 7 on a Quad 8200 at 2.80ghz. I am currently using MPClassic HT edition and it's using about 18% CPU on a 1080p MKV file. Will I find any improvement / performance / efficiency benefit on VLC 1? Just try it out and see what it does. In my experience, though, the new MF codecs have really really good performance. Try using Windows Media Player and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnmnky Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Just try it out and see what it does. In my experience, though, the new MF codecs have really really good performance. Try using Windows Media Player and see what happens. Same files used on each test and on each media software.... 1080p ~ 20% CPU 720p ~ 5% CPU 480p ~ 1% CPU I don't have any high quality WMV to test. So I don't think Hardware acceleration is going to kick in anyway. Maybe if I had a nvidia GPU or newer ATI it would use the GPU drivers and kick in acceleration for any movie files. The picture quality is exactly the same on MPC and VLC. I took screen dumps at the same frame. My CPU is coping with it just fine. I don't like the pausing on VLC. It's very laggy. MPC is instant. I am not converted. Sorry VLC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrk Reviews Posted July 8, 2009 Reviews Share Posted July 8, 2009 I use Media Player Classic Home Cinema for all my movie playback but always used VLC for DVD playback as I found it had better compatibility. Now I can use it for blurray too \m/ Anyways, I never found VLC to be very good IQ wise for x264 encoded content, too blocky compared to divx-hd or ffdshow or other liba based decoders. MPC vs VLC 1.0 on One of my HDDVD encodes @ 1920 - MPC HC: VLC: While VLC is no longer blocky when playing HD content it does go blocky for a second when seeking in the timeline. It is also giving off a more washed out image compared to MPC. MPC is decoding via DiVX-HD h264 decoder whereas VLC is using some internal AVC1 decoder from the codec info dialogue. I'll stick with MPC for everything barring blurray/dvd and hddvd discs but that''s rare these days as I just rip everything to the hdd for media sharing on the LAN :p CPU usage wise I don't really care which decoder uses more cpu, I have a quad core so never encounter any issues in this regard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 ZOMG! The apocalypse is coming - VLC made it to version 1.0.0 We aren't quite there. FooBar still hasn't hit 1.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 Do you need a special graphics card or drivers for Hardware acceleration?I have Radeon x850xt and am using window 7 on a Quad 8200 at 2.80ghz. I am currently using MPClassic HT edition and it's using about 18% CPU on a 1080p MKV file. Will I find any improvement / performance / efficiency benefit on VLC 1? It depends on your vid card/drivers older vid cards don't usually have full hardware acceleration for h.264 like nvidia's 8 series and 9 series do. If you have a card that has the support for hardware acceleration + a media/player and codec that supports dxva you can get full hardware acceleration playing h.264 files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acido00 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 they did a contest about a new skin for this version. but where is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhapimp Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 they did a contest about a new skin for this version.but where is it? they figured all the skins sucked and just tossed them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acido00 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 really? :( why good designers cannot make an awesome and original skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 really? :( why good designers cannot make an awesome and original skin? did you see the entries? They were really poor :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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