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[richard.e.morton]

Hi There,

Is there any chance of having MC support VLC as the playback engine?

It's a great engine that doesn't seem to require third party codecs, and if it does, doesn't bring up the annoying icons in the systray. It just works, although it looks rubbish and MC is much better at multiple zones and so on.

Rich

[glynor]

VLC essentially has the codecs (mostly libavcodec) built in rather than using the DirectShow "modular" design, which is a design decision made due to its cross platform nature (can't use DirectShow on OSX or Linux now can we).  This is good and bad.  Good because it's simple.  Bad because it doesn't give you any choice for playback, and it doesn't allow for easy expansion.  It generally handles what it handles and nothing else.  I like VLC for some things, but it's color fidelity and playback quality aren't really up to par on some media types -- especially newer MPEG-4 AVC codecs.

The codecs it uses are from the FFMPEG project, which is effectively the same set included with FFDSHOW and Media Player Classic.  Installing a good, solid filter set including FFDSHOW (such as CCCP) will give you the same playback capabilities as VLC in any DirectShow player.

[MadJewDisaster]

~~~~~~~~~It generally handles what it handles and nothing else~~~~~~~~~ here it means ALL of my 500 giga of videos less the Real files .. not bad

Beside it you can send videos to VLC from MC for playback, having your library in MC
But look like the Reds are the solution ......Will install it right now .

[richard.e.morton]

~~~~~~~~~It generally handles what it handles and nothing else~~~~~~~~~ here it means ALL of my 500 giga of videos less the Real files .. not bad

Beside it you can send videos to VLC from MC for playback, having your library in MC
But look like the Reds are the solution ......Will install it right now .

Reds?

[glynor]

CCCP 

And I almost typed "It handles what it handles and nothing else (but luckily that's pretty darn close to everything)".

[richard.e.morton]

ahhh I get it, just me being slow.

CCCP is pretty good although you get lots of systray activity cause for some reason codec writers like to put icons in the systray which do nothing of practical use. a simple app that tells you which codec is in use (when you're interested) would be sufficient.

Rich

[glynor]

It's certainly personal preference.  I use the FFDSHOW systray apps extensively.  I could generally do without the Haali icon, but it doesn't really use up any significant additional resources (beyond what the filter itself would use anyway) to have it there so...

[MadJewDisaster]

Glynor
No sub here - Do i need to instal something or CCCP takes care of it ?
Look like the answer is not - Or my computer a mess...or both...