Playback Guide

Beginner:

1. Download CCCP.
2. Install.
3. Enjoy.

Advanced (for best quality):
Media Player Classic Home Cinema x86 Installer
Haali Media Splitter
LAV Filters Installer
xy-VSFilter Installer
madVR

1. Uninstall all codec packs, previous installations of the aforementioned, and the like.
2. Reboot.
3. Install MPC-HC [x86] with default options. Do not keep any previous settings.
4. Install Haali Media Splitter with all checkboxes unchecked.
5. Install LAV Filters without the x64 components. Uncheck the “Matroska/WebM” file format.
6. Install xy-VSFilter and reset its settings if prompted.
7. Extract “madVR.zip” into a new “madVR” directory in your “C:\Program Files (x86)” directory.
8. Right-click on the “madVR” directory, click on “Properties”, go to the “Security” tab, click on “Edit”, click on “Add…”, type your Windows user name, click on “OK”, click on the left “Modify” checkbox, click on “OK”, and then click on “OK”.
9. Double-click on “install.bat” in the “madVR” directory you just populated.
10. Start MPC-HC, go to “View” -> “Options…” -> “Playback”, and uncheck “Auto-load subtitles”.
11. Go to “External Filters” -> “Add Filter…”, select “DirectVobSub (auto-loading version)”, click on “OK”, and select “Prefer”.
12. Go to “View” -> “Options…” -> “Playback” -> “Output” and select “madVR” under “DirectShow Video”.
13. Go to “Internal Filters” and uncheck all checkboxes. Click on “OK”.
14. Play a video file, go to “Play” -> “Filters”, click on “madVR Renderer”, and click on “Edit Settings”.
15. Go to “processing” -> “decoding” and uncheck all checkboxes.
16. Go to “scaling algorithms” and select “Spline” (try both “3 taps” and “4 taps”) in all three submenus.
17. Go to “rendering” -> “general settings” and check “disable desktop composition”.
18. • Color management using yCMS is always recommended, but it is only required if you use a wide gamut display.
    • This is done by selecting “calibrate this display by using yCMS” under “devices” -> [Display] -> “calibration” and filling out at least the “primaries / gamut measurements” table on the “yCMS” tab.
    • If you do not have any suitable hardware, but you do have a proper ICC profile, you can acquire at least the XYZ values for red, green, blue, and white point by using an application such as ICC Profile Inspector and double-clicking on rXYZ, gXYZ, bXYZ, and wtpt, respectively.
    • Change the format from Yxy to XYZ and fill out as appropriate. Click on “save”.
19. Apply all changes, restart MPC-HC, and start watching some 10-bit H.264.

Written by Nyaa.