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4:4:4 8bit ... is better than 4:2:2 12bit

4:2:2 delivers chroma channel (color channel) at 75% resolution ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling

Your 60hz source is max 8bit ... so you are not really loosing anything

Pretty sure processing of video is done at high bit depth + dithering  ... before being output at lower bit depth ... just like audio ... so you are better off at 4:4:4 8bit than 4:2:2 12bit

If you purchased the MC32 license, you probably still need to install MC32, then restore the new license.

Here are the instructions from the first post:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137399.msg952550.html#msg952550

The setting in Media Center's Video settings called "Optimize hardware decoding for performance" toggles DXVA2 Copy-Back decoding with madVR. If thats disabled, it'll use DXVA2 Copy-Back, which should give you the desired results within the limitations of madVR.

@Hendrik

Is there a way to configure the internal LAV filters?  Unfortuantely, I believe I have to change one more setting (selecting Hardware Device) in LAV Video Decoder in order to get it to work on a new system.  Without installing external LAV filters, it doesn't appear I can explicitly specify the hardware device to use.  I would be grateful for any advice.

My process is to put all new albums in a folder named "import". Have Media Center import that folder so I can tag them.

I edit the tags so all of the names and my custom fields are filled in properly. Add cover art. Etc.

Then I run the files through the big Rename, Move, & Copy Files dialog to move the files to my NAS.

I have custom directory naming rules and file naming rules that create the directory structure I like on the NAS. So all the albums and artists are organized in a way I like. The Expression Language allows me to create some custom rules that do what I want. And I take advantage of that. It's the Expression Language that gives this process the power and customization.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Expression_Language

Is it possible for someone to repair the Purity Skin? The section for Cloudplay is completely unreadable. This issue only occurs with this skin.

Unzip the attached file into MC's standard skin directory, which should be in one of the following locations, depending on which version of MC you have installed (or unzip to both locations if you have both 32 and 64 bit versions).

MC 32bit:  C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 32\Skins\Standard View
MC 64bit:  C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 32\Skins\Standard View

This creates a new skin folder called Purity Mod.  Open MC and select the new skin from View menu.  I am not sure if Purity is one of MC's default installed skins, but if it is, having this separate modified Purity skin will prevent MC from overwriting the modification during one of the many/weekly program updates.

The reason Purity has this problem with CloudPlay has to do with the Tree Background being light, while all it's other background elements are dark. Purity is one of the few skins that does this, which is why the problem only occurs with it. 

To resolve this I darkened the Tree background image file, which is what CloudPlay "samples" to use for its main panel content background color. Since CloudPlay's content area uses a light gray text color (the <List> Text hex value), when that is combined with the Tree's light gray background it becomes unreadable (the colors turn out to be virtually identical).  I darkened the tree background image file so it provides reasonable contrast for both dark and light text colors.  Hopefully that all makes sense... or not. You probably don't care, so long as it works.

NOTE: You probably already are aware of this, but you must restart MC, including the server if applicable, for the color change to take effect. Cloudplay colors are retained, even after refreshing and switching to different skins, until you do a full restart of MC (FYI: middle-clicking MC's close button will perform a restart). 
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For the dev team:
I would be great if the CloudPlay colors could be updated in real-time instead of requiring a full restart.

Also, if Cloudplay would simply use the list background color for the main content area of CloudPlay (like it is in every other main content area) color conflicts would be automatically avoided for all skins - now and in the future.  To provide contrast for the CloudPlay Header Area, use the Hex color specified in the <VIEW HEADER> section for either: [Background] or [HeaderBackground]

I use MC32 on Linux Mint 21.3 XFCE running (walking?) on an ancient (circa 2012 Pentium cpu, 4gb memory) system and it's responsiveness is fine.

If you are seeing such awful response times with your hardware, then something is very wrong. I would suggest creating a small test library using a few files on a local fast disk and turn off autoimport, if this is fine, then investigate what is causing the problem(s) in your main library.

Try setting the screensaver to black screen and disable the screen sleep in Windows. It's not ideal as the screen stays powered on, but it works. On my LG TV I can turn the image off while keeping the sound, so I sometimes do that.
Adding a PCIe/USB sound card should also work, as you mention.

That's an excellent example of lateral thinking. A blank screensaver does the job very well

An HDMI dongle doesn't help because the audio is still going via the other HDMI output, which still gets put to sleep.

What other HDMI output do you mean? I only have the one on my GPU card.

I did receive and appreciate a reply on my upgrade and now understand that I do not need to upgrade to a master license as both laptops are windows OS and that I do not need to install an old version. I did restore my licence today and am told to follow the instructions in the first post. Not sure where to find this I have enough trouble trying to post a question and then finding it again to see if there is an answer. Perhaps you mean upgrade instructions from Nov 13th?, if so I don't know if I need to restore, install?

I love JRiver but it is so much harder than it should be to work with. For non-computer nerds the instructions are hard to follow and that is if you can find them. There ends up being a lot of guesswork involved if you are not familiar with the terminology. It took me a long time with MC22 and 25 and I hoped I would not have to go thru it again. If more complete answers were given I'm sure it would greatly cut down the repeat queries.

I just purchased the MC32 upgrade and am really confused about "what my next step should be". Can someone please steer me in the right direction, I kind of need step by step instructions then I will not bother again. MC25 is currently working on my old HP laptop and I am trying to add MC32 on my new Acer then upgrade the MC25 to MC32 on the HP. Thanks

Is it possible for someone to repair the Purity Skin? The section for Cloudplay is completely unreadable. This issue only occurs with this skin.

Hello, I appreciate your thoughs on ways to configure JRiver and/or windows in order do accomplish the best possible signal to my projector.

I currently have windows setup as 4:4:4 12bit 23hz, so that I can fully benefit from Jrivers chroma upscaling capabilities - this works just fine for the vast majority of the movies which are 24fps. When I play the (rare) movies which are 60fps, JRiver/Windows changes the HDMI output signal to 4:4:4 8bit 60hz, so I am losing the 10bit resolution from the original UHD-HDR files.

Please, does anybody know if it would it be possible to have a different configuration for 60fps(60hz)? I would like for the system to change to 4:2:2 12bit 60hz instead of keeping 4:4:4 and reducing bit depth to 8.