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Compared to my old favorite MPC-HC, and the new PotPlayer, I now prefer good ol' VLC because:
- It supports playing Windows Media Center recordings (.wtv) properly, including those flagged as "protected" (PotPlayer plays my digital tuner recordings with the audio out of sync; MPC-HC can't play "protected" recordings).
- It can properly play all formats faster when want to (MPC-HC can't play .wtv faster, e.g.).
- It time-stretches the audio properly when playing faster (PotPlayer causes a kind of reverb effect; MPC-HC still has no time-stretch at all).
Other than the above, all the other handy features are cool. I did run into some quirkages, though:
- For some reason, the playback speed setting default became 0.90x instead of 1.00x. I found how to fix it, though, by going into the "vlcrc" settings file and changing it there.
- If "post processing" is activated, it seems to cancel out deinterlacing. I was wondering why the picture quality seemed especially bad on some files, so I dug around and found disabling the post-processing filter actually improved things.
And will there every by a 64-bit version?! |
