CCCP, mpv, vlc, or k-lite?
MPC-HC + XySubFilter + madVR.
>mpv
I use it in conjunction with other scripts and it really is a bar-none experience once you set it up right. (if you watch anime a lot, get this and take some time to understand the scripts/config options)
>cccp/kcp
Its the standard for anime. Ready to use for generic anime fans.
>vlc
gramps and normies, please leave.
>k-lite
Normie alternative to cccp/kcp
I use K-lite. Works great for me.
Notepad
>CURRENT YEAR
>using digital media to watch your russian vodka painting shows and not using flipbooksI use MPC-HC, simply because it's the only one I could remember the name of when I needed it
>>135398310WMP
KCP 'cause it's easy and I don't like mpv.
VLC. :^)
>>135398452
>normie
>>>/r9k/
>>135398452
This guy gets it.
>>135398310
Fuck, I was tricked into waiting for the thumbnail to load.
VLC
>2015
>codecs
>not watching all of your downloaded anime in Chrome
MPC-BE or mpv.
What u need codecs for? MPC-HC/BE has all that built in ffs. cccp is in same tier as vlc. For normies.
I'm using KCP but is mpv better quality-wise? I hadn't even heard of it until now.
>>135398310
mpv obiously
VLC it works, never had any major troubles. I even use VLC for my music because I'm lazy.
potplayer
KCP because I'm lazy but want decent quality
>>135400933
Believe it or not but even mpv werks
>>135400729
High end mpv is better quality wise than mpchc+madvr.
But as it should be said, mpv by default is roughly same as mpc-hc by default. Once you modify the upscale/downscale algorithms and interpolation, etc you get a much better/cleaner look with mpv.
>https://github.com/haasnhoff/mpvconfigurator
mpv gui config here for those not well read on scaling algorithm
>>135401044
mpv is not installed on my computer though
I'm using MPC but I don't give a shit about settings and else, as long as the video play I'm fine with it.
>>135401096
Now that's what I call a solid argument
Switching to VLC right now, how did I not see this?
Updog, because I'm not a fucking newfag.
Might as well ask here. I downloaded the first Stardust Crusaders bd batch off bakabt and I'm getting some weird sound problems, basses sound absolutely horrible and any sound that gets too loud is completely distorted.
I'm using MPC-HC and CCCP without modifying anything and I never had any problem with 10-bit releases before, any ideas?
>>135401296
Install VLC, it werks xD
>>135401296
Is it a 5.1 surround audio that's not being mixed?
>>135401182
what's updog xdddd
>>135401296
Basic trouble shoot.
Try with other players
Try with other files.
Try reinstalling your player.
Try different computer.
CCCP and madVR.
Though today I started having issues. The first second or so of video is just a black screen, though audio plays. Only when I rewind can I then see what I missed. mkv, mp4, webm; doesn't matter what file or format, same shit.
>>135398310
vlc media player, cuz u can switch to dub's there!
>>135398310
SMPlayer, using MPV instead of mplayer.
google chrome
>>135398310
>CCCP
Always
Any of you have a NAS?
What do you use to play videos off of it? Plex is shit for anime.
CCCP, but I steal the K-lite icons.
Does using mpc with kcp to watch regular movies\ tv series still good?
>>135398437
Done in one. Install vanilla MPC-HC, then xysubfilter and madvr manually. Do not install codec packs. They will cause playback problems later on.
>>135398437
This.
Codec packs are for chumps.
>>135398452
>Uses an inferior operating system designed for children and technological invalids.
>Calls other people normies
>>135402320
Why would you need special software to play videos from a NAS? Just mount it as a drive and use whatever media player you like.
>>135402474
I assume streaming media server or whatever (so you can hook it up to everything).
>>135401071
>upscale algorithms
>interpolation
Who downloads 720p anymore?
Who the HELL watched anime in interpolated 60 FPS?!
>2016
>still using CCCP
>>135400391
This guy gets it
>>135402474
So stuff like my smartTV and phone can connect to it mostly. I'd also like my friends to be able to connect to it, which they can, but through a URL. I guess I haven't tried connecting to it off a different network yet.
>>135398452
What does mpv do that MPC-HC/XySubFilter/madVR doesn't?
>>135402573
it just werks
>>135402537
1080p of anime is sometimes an upscale. 1080 is a hug file hog and im autistic about muh HDD space.
>>135402537
There is 0 point in downloading 1080p. It looks almost no fucking different than 720p.
Will madVR be work if I just use integrated graphics?
>>135402717
>There is 0 point in downloading 1080p
It's better to use the native 1080p than to upscale a 720p...
>>135398310
CCCP obviously.
Does anyone know if there is a BD player or media device which can actually fucking play my anime .mkv files with embedded subs? I have been using an Xbox 360 and UMS for a long time but I would really love it if I could just have something work without like 500 layers of interfacing in between.
>>135402771
It looks no fucking different 95% of the time.
>>135402620
Be a /g/ meme
>>135402803
If you can't tell the difference with a 1080p native anime you're figuratively blind.
I use mpv because it doesn't burn my GPU like madvr.
Yes I have a toaster.
>>135402883
Show me the difference. Every time someone posts a comparison of 720p and 1080p there is such a minor difference it's laughable.
>>135402883
Not him, but I do appreciate that you put "figuratively" in there.
Seriously. It sounds much better than "literally"
>>135402620
>Extension specific configs
>lots of video stream support (twitch/youtube/porns/generic flash videos/etc)
>lua script backend to modify your player to your wishes
>etc
pics related: scripts I use personally
>>135402771
Most anime is produced in 720p though, the 1080p rips are also upscales.
Very few anime is actually produced in native 1080p.
With regards to the 1080p v 720p download debate, anibin publishes the resolution of every anime, every season. Refer to that when deciding to download the 720p or 1080p versions.
Always download the 1080p version of Horriblesubs when it's Funimation-sourced. The 720p Funi files are literally impossibly shitty downscales. Download the 1080p version even if you have a 720p or 1366x768 monitor. Your media player's native downscaler will look better than Funi's. I do not understand how Funi fucks up the downscaling step so badly but they do.
>>135403008
Better yet, don't watch Funicancer at all.
What's wrong with VLC?
>>135403062
It used to be really bad and even if it's halfway decent now, there are better options. It never got over how bad it used to be and no one will forgive it.
>>135403056
Easier said than done when it's literally the only subs available, or competent subs are multiple weeks behind.
>>135403062
Newfag detector.
>>135402994
Source on this info? That sounds like horse shit.
>>135403197
Not him. He's right. See: anibin
There's usually ~10-20 shows per season with >720p content and usually only one or two in full 1080p, if that.
>>135398452
Basically this
>Linux
mpv objectively has the best video rendering options, audio output options, GPU utilization, is the only option with a frameserver for post-processing (vapoursynth, the successor to avisynth), and is very, very configurable.
The only reason to run VLC is if your CPU can't take mpv, which for people running on ARM or an ancient computer, can be a legitimate concern.
>OSX
Same deal, though mpv is gimped on OSX like all other media players.
>Windows
If your GPU can support it, setting up MADVR will provide you with a better rendering output than mpv, but unless you are playing with framerate, ghosting, or the abomination of SVP on anime, its a relatively small difference.
That said, there is nothing really wrong with MPC-HC, and it is optimized to run on Windows and play basically everything without a fuss, which is similar to mpv, so if you are not inclined to command-line configuration, there is no real reason to use mpv over MPC-HC. And vice versa, there is no reason to use MPC-HC over mpv. Both are good, and anyone playing for one another probably has an antagonism with the other one, because reasons.
VLC, again, is not bad if you happen to be one of the following:
1. Running on Windows XP (No mpv builds for XP, and much of MPC-HC is vanilla at this point for XP users). Basically, its the best because everything else doesn't run or sucks on it.
2. You have a very low-power computer. Not ARM, but just very old. Not even a cheap computer would have problems these days. But if its out of your control, c'est la vie.
However, VLC is not *bad*, its just that, in order to get its good performance on basically everything (Haiku OS and NetBSD even), it takes shortcuts in decoding that result in random errors like misrendered keyframes and whatnot. Not as bad as it once was, but still a thing.
>>135403616
>Android
Just install MX Player *and* VLC, if your phone/tablet can run the latter.
MX Player is, bar none, the dream of those using fansubs. The developers know this, too, consider its basically the only player that enables resizable ASS subtitles on the fly, great mkv support, and tons of options to handle encoding and experimental codecs.
>As a side note, why do a few subgroups release in h.265 *now*, before the standards of the codec have been set in stone? It would make more sense releasing in VP9, though not better.
Of course, because MX Player uses a ton of tricks to get everything running smoothly on the largest number of devices, its not surprising that I occasionally get files that will simply not render in MX. In that case, VLC, consistent as always, runs acceptably.
>Chromebook
Install Linux. Seriously, even without graphical acceleration, it simply cannot be worse for video playing.
If you can't do that, and if you cannot get graphical acceleration through Crouton, your only option is to use VLC, available from the Web Store.
>>135402994
>Most anime is produced in 720p though
This is not true any more. Most anime is produced at greater than 720p, though not necessarily 1080p. it may be, say, 900p. However, the studio usually upscales to 1080p when they make the master, so the master copy is 1080p. Any 720p will be a downscale of that upscale, so you are always better off with the native 1080p.
>>135403971
I think in some cases a properly configured MadVR upscale of native 720p anime will look better than the studios' upscale, assuming they did the downscaling step competently.
>>135404046
>I think in some cases a properly configured MadVR upscale of native 720p anime will look better than the studios' upscale
Yes, that depends on what you got your 720p from. If it's blu-ray, the quality will be nearly lossless at 720p, so your madVR upscale will look great. If you're talking about a horriblesubs release, the 720p is at a lower bitrate, and so that will make it suffer compared to the higher bitrate of the 1080p.
>>135403959
>As a side note, why do a few subgroups release in h.265 *now*, before the standards of the codec have been set in stone? It would make more sense releasing in VP9, though not better.
Huh? H.265 is standardized, the only problem with it is that encoders just aren't mature enough yet to make switch from x264 worth it.
>>135404242
You are right. I was wrong in that regard, I thought the standards were still being constructed and that the encoder was still a proof-of-concept. But I was wrong, sorry.
PC: KCP because I'm lazy
Android: VLC because MXplayer has awful, stuttering subtitles for signs and shit
>>135402620
it's literally a fucking /g/ meme because of "muh advanced algorithms"
KCP
>>135404046
>>135404208
For on-the-fly upscaling, MadVR is pretty good.
However, for the best upscaling options, you currently have two choices:
1. nnedi3, which is consistently the best upscaling (with optional artifact denoising) algorithm as long as you are doubling the size of the image.
2. waifu2x, which is pretty hit-or-miss depending on how you seed its neural network, being anywhere from absolutely wonderful to worse than nnedi3.
However, both take long times to render, with waifu2x quite easily taking months to render a single movie if you are dependent on CPU.
With those, you just set up a framserver like avisynth or vapoursynth and feed your video into it.
>>135404468
madVR can do nnedi3, no need to bother with avisynth.
>arguing about codecs
>everyone downloads shitty HS rips anyway
kek
>>135404553
I only watch fansubs now. If there's no fansub option, I just drop the show.
>>135404468
You can do nnedi3 with mpv too.
>>>/g/52119093/
Current /g/ thread regarding mpv.
>vo=opengl-hq:backend=dxinterop:scale=ewa_lanczossharp:cscale=ewa_lanczossoft:prescale=nnedi3:nnedi3-neurons=64
>>135404734
Hmm crossboard link seems broken. Let me try again.
>>>/g/52119093
or
>>>/g/mpv
Why is this SHIT /a/ related?
>>135404863
The medium for anime is a video player. Just like how you can't avoid discussion anime without discussing translations, so too is the discussion of video player a key to watching anime.
>CTRL + F
>DAIZ
>no matches
DAIZ
>>135404664
>>135404863
>shit
Threadlurker here, if you literally have no interest in improving the viewing quality of your anime due to 'laziness' or whatever the fuck you might as well go be with the casualfags on crunchyroll or the youtube comment section.
>>135404995
Shup up Daiz.
MPC-BE + Lav Filters + XySubFilter + madVR
What does the cp in cccp stand for?
Winamp
VLC because it's the easy way to play anime in 1.2x or more but I liked MPC the most
>>135405370
Combined
Community
Codec
Pack
mpv > mpc + niggerware > mpc > vlc
>>135405417
How can 2 letters stand for so many words?
>>135405541
Obviously the CP part you were asking about is the "Codec Pack" at the end.
I tried mpc-hc+svp because I heard it was good for anime. While having a perfectly fluid video is nice there were just so many detrimental stuff like artifacts or stuttering in certain parts of the video that it didn't make up for it. The devs didn't know how to fix it either and the users more or less just had to accept it.
Now I just use mpc-hc+xy+madvr
>>135403062
I'm so lost when it comes to this shit I don't even know what I'm doing.
I have MPC-HC. That's it.
I changed the audio renderer to use internal since that lets me speed up things without fucking with the pitch. Beyond that I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'll check >>135398437 out, though.
Maximum Placebo mode
MPC-HC+madVR+Xysubfilter+ffdshow-tryouts
>>135405631
NO, THAT ISNT CORRECT
>>135405659
Have you guys noticed when you pause and frame-by-frame advance most anime, there's a ton of repeat frames? What if we took those repeat frames out and interpolated the actual changes into them instead of doubling framerate for no reason?
>>135406023
>Have you guys noticed when you pause and frame-by-frame advance most anime, there's a ton of repeat frames?
The actual animation rate for most shows is like 8 fps, if you're running the video at 30fps that's 22 still frames per second, although some computer-made effects might reach a higher framerate. Drawing more frames costs more money to make, in a perfect world they'd all be drawing at 60fps in 1080p.
>What if we took those repeat frames out and interpolated the actual changes into them instead of doubling framerate for no reason?
Isn't that what SVP kinda does?
>>135406013
Sure thing hoss
>>135406274
Doesn't SVP double the framerate literally for no reason?
>>135406023
MadVR smooth motion.
>>135406417
Yes, use SVP if you want to turn your anime into soap operas.
>>135398586
This guy gets it.
I'm already using MPC-HC with xysub and madVR. Haven't heard of this MPV shit until now. How big is the difference? Even worth it? Seems like a pain in the ass.
>>135408536
You learned about how to use MPC-HC when you switched from vlc/wmp right? You learned how to configure madvr and xysub right?
Same transition phase.
>>135408536
If you're on Windows, don't bother. MPC-HC+madVR and MPV are virtually the same quality-wise.
>>135410929
Besides, mpv devs barely care about Windows.
i only use k-lite
never had any problem
>>135402883
There's no difference retard.
I mean unless you watch glued to the screen you won't notice it.
I download only 1080p for HS since CR and Funi 720 is bad.
For BDs I get 720 10 bits, there's no difference with 1080 because i'm far from the screen.
