[Solved] Unusual pixelation of 480p videos on MPC-HC?

[xNoName]

Hello there, my fellow Kametsu people. This is probably the first time I'm actually asking for someone's help here at Kametsu, also the first time something like this has happened. So the thing started when I updated my CCCP codec thanks to all this fuss going on about 8-bit and 10-bit encodes. I use two players for playback, by the way—MPC-HC and KMplayer. The problem only gets in MPC-HC. Since I prefer MPC-HC more than KMplayer because KMplayer has a terrible habit of fiddling around with subtitles, I'm asking this.

The following screenshot is of the anime "Kimi to Boku"; episode 01 (480p):

KMplayer:

MPC-HC:

This problem happens with 480p ones when I play them on my laptop (1280 x 800) and also on Monitor screen (1600 x 900). But, the same kind of problem persists when I play the 720p ones when I hook my laptop to my monitor (1600 x 900), but does not happen when I watch them in my laptop.

What could be causing it? What should I do to prevent it?

[lemmingllama]

Its just that MPC-HC sometimes has problems with videos of a certain file size. For my computer, its normally when the video is 300+mb. It may also be your codecs though, I use K-Light and I rarely have problems with pixelation

[xNoName]

^The episode size was pretty goddamn small—even if it was a 480p release. Have anything else that might help?

[lemmingllama]

Well, i tried playing with codecs and it didnt work too well. So I normally just grin and bear it. Also, quick question. Is there a difference between when its fullscreen and when its not?

[xNoName]

Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention. The damn thing looks awesome when it's in the normal mode (window mode), but as soon as I go full-screen, it fucks up and gets pixelated.

[lemmingllama]

Ok, thats just MPC-HC being dumb. So nothing you can really do about it unless you want to try and code a new MPC

[Koby]

No offense intended but it doesn't seem like lemmingllama actually knows what he is saying. FileSize has nothing to do with whether a video works or not and CCCP is/has always better than K-Lite.

What settings are you using (like overlay render, any change in aspect ratios, filters)? The error you show doesn't actually seem to be an error at all. It's actually common for shit to look that way when stretched too far. However different settings could help improve it. When you updated CCCP did you click 'reset all settings' at the end? Because that's something that you pretty much have to do. I've been using CCCP for over 4 years now with ALL different file sizes, file types, resolutions, etc.. and never once had a single problem.

It kind of looks to me like KM Player might just be blurring the video too.

[xNoName]

Just re-installed the whole thing again, and yo, the problem vanished. After installation, it said to update this thing called DirectX Runtime I did it, and it all works like butter now. Sorry for the trouble The problem is solved and can be locked.

/Me goes back to watch anime