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Watchin movies on mah laptop

I watch more than my fair share of movies on my laptop. I just got this new Toshiba with what I'm told is one of the best graphics processors (don't ask me what, but my sister's techy boyfriend says so). What I'm wondering is how much it matters what program I use to play the movies themselves (Divx, Windows Media, Windows Cinema, etc). They're usually downloaded (~800 megs). Does it make much of a difference?

EDIT: Since I couldn't work any lulz into the above statement, I make the following offering for entertainment value as an incentive.

VLC > *

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Originally posted by idoru VLC > *

Download the BD Rips, watch with VLC and forget about the rest

I use WMP lolol

I'm not smart enough to use torrents, so I usually just get them from ninjavideo or movieplex, which don't carry BD rips, but maybe they do, because I don't know what that means.

I've used VLC before, but are you all recommending it on the basis of picture quality, or some other criteria?

the programs have nothing to do with quality. We all love VLC because its simple and has the codecs to play anything that you throw at it.

and there is absolutely nothing hard about using torrents.

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Originally posted by WittyHandle I'm not smart enough to use torrents, so I usually just get them from ninjavideo or movieplex, which don't carry BD rips, but maybe they do, because I don't know what that means. I've used VLC before, but are you all recommending it on the basis of picture quality, or some other criteria?

If you aren't smart enough to handle bit torrents then I probably wouldn't recommend VLC.

But seriously, torrents are easy?
1. Download torrent client (uTorrent, Azureus, etc)
2. Install
3. Find torrent site and download shit you want
4. ...
5. Profit?

I guess I was most interested in knowing if a particular program delivered picture & sound quality better than the others, but just hadn't thought to articulate that til just now. Oops.

What is that, a trumpet?

Most video player programs on Windows are going to use the standard windows codecs installed, which most of the time is some variation of the ffmpeg library (decodes almosy all FourCC video types, DIVX, XVID, H264 and MPEG video).

Basically WMP, Windows Media Player Classic, and almost all the others are just a front end to this library. Some might offer more tools to adjust the output of the video (contrast, color balance, etc) but the video quality and audio quality (handled also by ffmpeg) are going to be roughly the same.

VLC on the other hand has custom written libraries for all the data formats it supports. I find that its deblocking and other quality controls are a little bit easier/nicer to deal with than ffmpegs (either through a front end in a player, or through the ffmpeg control panel).

I use VLC just because I don't want to hassle with all the codec packs (but if you do I recommend the Combined Community Codec Pack, just google CCCP codec and it should be the first link).

Ayep, VLC has all you need - even a built-in menu for handling subtitles.

vlc playa wutttuppp

quote:

Originally posted by Joss Weatherby

Nice, thanks for the specs there. I guess I was lulled into thinking the Divx player might have more capacity to deliver quality, but maybe that's more of an audio thing, which is a bit of a different animal.

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Originally posted by WittyHandle Nice, thanks for the specs there. I guess I was lulled into thinking the Divx player might have more capacity to deliver quality, but maybe that's more of an audio thing, which is a bit of a different animal.

All your audio is going to be stereo MP3 or AAC. Its not like you can really expect too much from it. Even if you get a 5.1 rip in a MKV or OGM file or something its still most likely going to be AAC encoded (compressed).

Bluray (BD as in Bluray Disk) uses uncompressed audio. Same with DVD.

Torrents are easy as shit! I'm a downloading fool! I don't watch them on my comp anymore ever since I got my PS3. I upload them all onto my 1TB external HD and play them through the PS3. So far I have 305GB +/- 20GB of movies.

Around 350 Regular movies and 15 BRRips.

I have recently just started ripping my own movies to have digital copy's of them. I have over 300 discs, this may take awhile lol.

But yeah VLC is where it's at. Plus you can add the .srt subtitles to the movie. I don't think you can do that with WMP, Winamp... etc

I used to love VLC until it couldn't handle HD videos. zoomplayer works well for that.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail I used to love VLC until it couldn't handle HD videos.

....what....?

it'd be all chuggy

VLC is great for retards who have no idea how to setup a proper system, with decent sound and video codecs.

If you know what you're doing, you'll obtain the correct codecs and use them for viewing within Media Player Classic. Not only is this much less resource hungry than choosing the VLC route, you'll be able to use filters such as Reclock (which eliminates any telecine judder created by watching PAL vids on NTSC hardware or vice versa) which VLC will not allow you to do.

I fucking hate VLC.

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