and here are some playback results

oops, turned out OP was a fag

At least you're trying to help.

http://imouto.my/watching-h264-videos-using-compute-unified-device-architecture-cuda/

For best visual quality (nvidia cards only)

>>48001184
that is basically my setup now, only a few changes, like no madvr because at this stage its missing things i want

and that person updates their page pretty often, i got the latest ffdshow tryouts build i could for my guide this morning and its already updated to a newer one

i was aiming more at low spec, full compatible playback with this guide though

mpc-hc + haali, 1080p playback on a 2GHz single core celeron with no gpu acceleration support, i dont know if VLC can manage that but i was impressed
even i wasnt expecting it to work that well

>>48000247
>2GB RAM
You call that shitty? Try 256 mb.

>>48001431
you actually have 256mb ram?

jesus, you could buy a better laptop than mine for under $300, i got it for like 600nzd after redemption two years ago or more

i prefer to set the adjustment for the video player (mplayer) at the terminal (linux) . convinient

Now I can spend hundreds of dollars buying useless animu merchandise instead of upgrading my celeron!

>>48001503
Not a laptop, regular PC. And I'm a poor student, I've got other priorities.

On the other hand, at my parents' house there's a PC with 1.6 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM which plays everything fine with no need for special setup, so unless your advice is for the really shitty computers I don't see the point of this thread.

>74% CPU on a 1080p video.

All this can be solved by getting a processor that isn't shitty.

I'm looking for the good pc guide. Anyone got it? It was posted a while ago.

>>48001684
anything with at least 4 cores, 4GB of ram and a recent graphics card

>>48001668
true, but for some people upgrading isnt an option
my main computer has quad core, 8GB ram and a gtx275
with the guide in >>48001184 i also have about ~10% cpu usage while watching 1080p

>>48001662
as far as i am concerned, with the settings in my guide the playback would be about as efficient as possible so that if the OS or another app decides to fuck around while you are watching it doesnt affect playback

i dont know what your processor is like but if you see my second image post mpc-hc was only using about 66MB ram while playing back 720p, so it may fill your requirements anyway

So this is for improving performance and doesn't affect video quality in any way correct?

>5 year old laptop
>upgraded to 2GB RAM
>some shitty dual core processor
>running vista, tuned as best I could knowing nothing about computers (got rid of that trustedinstaller ect)
>can watch anime have a browser and winamp open all at the same time and it still runs smooth

feels ok man

I have 512mb of RAM and 720p plays fine. I thought that if you don't have a brick it'll probably play at the very least 480p if not 720p.

>>48001922
you may or may not notice a quality difference, that will depend on the individual

however, it is not the best quality settings available even with mpc-hc stand alone, higher quality requires more CPU time though

>>48001986
its usually not RAM thats the issue, even with 1080p playback i rarely see mpc-hc around the 200MB mark on my desktop

the biggest contenders are CPU and video card, including video ram

>>48002019

Would you happen to have a guide of sorts for improving video quality in a similar fashion? My computer isn't pure shit, though it's aging a bit now.

Aww yeah nice job OP.
Although I do CCCP+Upgraded MPC-HC+CoreAVC.

My computer is quite nice though:
i7 CPU 930
6GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Runin' on Windows 7.

>>48002068
if you dont have a graphics card suitable for madvr (or dont want to use it yet) then just turn on evr-cp and set the resizer to bicubic a -1.00

if you are using or can use coreavc, or ffdshow video decoder then you can set up the raw video filter as in
http://imouto.my/watching-h264-videos-using-compute-unified-device-architecture-cuda/
to further improve image quality

its possible then to go further and use avisynth to do even more postprocessing, but i havent ventured that far yet

>>48002209

I might be wrong since I only read up a certain part, but the process mentioned in the link works only with Nvidia cards correct? If so, I'm SOL.

>>48002302