#Smplayer best video quality windows mp4#
#Smplayer best video quality windows software#
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#Smplayer best video quality windows windows#

The other thing, and the main reason I wanted to try this really, is that if you close the program before you finish watching a video it remembers the time and other settings. Even with no filtering the pixelation was only really obvious in one scene, and that scene's a torture test.

#Smplayer best video quality windows software#

I watched some video that is a good quality rip as far as the use of transcoding software is concerned but the bit rate is somewhat too low so it's definitely pixelated. It seems to use many of the same filters as avidemux, which is a good thing. The video rendering quality is excellent too.

In fact, the interface is good enough that I don't mind the relative lack of documentation. And a properly designed interface with at least put those things at the top of the menu or just make them more prominent. So few of these freeware coders understand that, yes, some tasks are inherently complex, but there are almost always certain things you're going to be using 80% of the time. In other words, I really like this interface. Why can't those other players put something like this into the mass of poorly documented (if at all) video options? And make it easy to find like with this? Which is pretty much analagous to pixelated video. just like dithering in digital audio, which adds noise to mask quantization distortion. SMPlayer has an option under Filters for adding noise to the signal.

However, the one thing vlc has for me is that it's much more forgiving with pixelated videos.Įxcept for this. The docs for vlc are much better than mpchc, though that's damning with faint praise. The latter really just for DVDs because vlc doesn't play them properly.

But it certainly doesn't seem as buggy as vlc. One quirk is that it doesn't handle DVD menus well. Despite quirks I've had very good results in general with Linux ports.

#Smplayer best video quality windows windows#

There are probably some quirks, like many Linux to Windows ports, but I haven't seen many of that yet. It handles a ton of formats, in fact it'[s as good as vlc that way, and doesn't load weird codecs that'll conflict. I have absolutely no problem with using a different program for video and audio. I have to have a good directory based playlist structure because of the way I organize my music and very, very few music players have it. When I was more of a windows user vlc was my favorite for audio. The only area where vlc is better than smplayer is for playing music because vlc's playlist works better for me. Don't these people understand that you put the most commonly used settings first? Most other player's settings (esp vlc and mpc-hc) are just ridiculously poor. They're so well designed that the fact that documentation is very sparse has never bothered me at all. Just set the local file stream cache to 8192Kb. The difference is extremely noticeable even on a smaller screen. Smplayer gives me better quality video rendering performance than any other one I've ever tried. Usually smplayer plays it better than vlc. I've only rarely used vlc for videos for several years, in case smplayer doesn't work with it properly. Contrary to popular opinion, smplayer is better at that than vlc. VLC and smplayer are the best players for throwing anything at them.

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What you did was download a video that was incompetently encoded and probably by someone who had stupid incompatible codec packs.

#Smplayer best video quality windows mp4#

Mp4 files can contain a lot of different formats and if you don't even know that you aren't qualified to review ANY video software. Saying it 'won't play mp4' is stupid and misleading.