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> It's a bit funny and sad how VLC has touted new stuff "for anime fans" for a few releases, yet every time they've done it they still haven't managed to catch up to the "standard" solutions in those circles.

Our goal is not to match the crazy setup people do and spend hours to tweak.

For the 10bits dithering, use the OpenGL output, and it is done.

>Our goal is not to match the crazy setup people do and spend hours to tweak.

Installing CCCP is as easy as installing VLC and gives you better quality out of the box. Installing and configuring madVR is an extra five-ten minutes of effort. Hardly a "crazy setup" that would require "hours of tweaking". There's also KCP which comes with madVR preconfigured, though CCCP offers better compatibility with a wider range of setups (which is why I personally recommend CCCP with madVR as a separate optional component on top of it).

Also, at least in the previous version, 10-bit dithering was still lacking even with OpenGL output, as demonstrated here: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/32677

I haven't been able to test if the situation has improved in the new version yet, though.

We will have to agree to disagree. CCCP and madVR configuration is not a five-ten minutes of effort. Especially for most people. Not to mention the non-free licences...

Last version, the matrix colors were wrong, as clearly explained on the release page, so it's soooo great to compare with it.

And maybe, if you were not an asshole to us, we might be interested in listening to what you have to say. Until then, not so much.

>We will have to agree to disagree. CCCP and madVR configuration is not a five-ten minutes of effort. Especially for most people.

CCCP requires no configuration. It just works. And I said that I recommend madVR as an optional component, since CCCP already provides high quality playback out of the box. I've been saying this for a good while now but you keep talking like I said madVR would be a must and use that as a basis to claim that VLC is "just simpler".

Installation and basic configuration (the average user really doesn't need any more than that) madVR on top of that with a guide (and there are plenty) is five-ten minutes of effort, but as I said, it's not a necessity by any means.

>Not to mention the non-free licences...

All the playback components in CCCP are FOSS with the exception of Haali Media Splitter, which is more of a fallback at this point. I'm not really sure about the non-component parts (the installer and settings panel), though. madVR is proprietary, yes, but it also happens to be the most advanced video renderer in existence. Unless you subscribe to RMS' worldviews about proprietary software (in which case you wouldn't be using Windows to begin with), I don't see a reason not to use it if you have enough interest in high quality playback.

>Last version, the matrix colors were wrong, as clearly explained on the release page, so it's soooo great to compare with it.

We were talking about dithering though (which that comparison also demonstrates), so unless the matrix issue was directly linked to the dithering issues it's not really relevant (and I didn't mention it either). And as I already said, I haven't had the chance to compare the latest version properly yet.

Also, chill down a bit, will you? While VLC likes to advertise itself to anime watchers, it's an audience that on average cares a lot more about high quality playback than many others. And if your "goal" is "not to match the crazy setup people do and spend hours to tweak", then why would you get upset when I point out that these "crazy" setups (that at their very basic level are as easy to install and use as VLC is) give better results?

> CCCP requires no configuration. But does not update...

> FOSS with the exception of No comment...

> We were talking about dithering though (which that comparison also demonstrates), so unless the matrix issue was directly linked to the dithering issues

How do you do the dithering if it is not during the YUV->RGB conversions, aka the matrix? If it is not done there, it is done in swscale like all the other players...

> Also, chill down a bit, will you?

I am usually quite calm, as you can see on this thread or the reddit one. But I'm not to people like you, who are at the limits of insults (and not on this thread, I know). Once you plan to speak correctly, maybe we can talk in a calm down way.

What do you mean by CCCP "not updating"? It got an automatic update checker last winter and is actively developed.

>How do you do the dithering if it is not during the YUV->RGB conversions, aka the matrix?

I thought you were referring solely to the fact that in the comparison I posted, the video was incorrectly converted with BT.601 instead of BT.709 on VLC's end.

Anyway, I'm home now, which means I can properly compare stuff (at last). Dithering certainly seems to have improved since the last version and BT.709 is used as well. There's something weird going on, however - the colors in VLC appear slightly off for some reason (and it's clearly not the usual suspects of TV/PC levels or BT.601/BT.709): http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/42453

Still, a notable improvement for sure.

This is very very far from the "haha, morons, 4K; morons, 10bits" comment you did...

Sorry, but the color difference is very very slight (if even noticeable), and are you sure the issue is on the VLC side? Did you try mplayer2 and mpv?

>This is very very far from the "haha, morons, 4K; morons, 10bits" comment you did...

Uhh, what? I have not written something like that about the new version anywhere on the internet.

But for the record, I do think marketing VLC as "4K-ready" is silly - there really shouldn't be anything special to 4K besides the bigger resolution, meaning that if you have the resources to decode it, you should be able to play it, and it has been very much possible with other playback solution (and likely even with older versions of VLC? I haven't checked). In a way, it's similar to this[1] - what it's advertising is actually nothing new but because 4K is the hot new marketing term of the day they're going to plaster it all over the damn thing.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/NMN9b8p.jpg

> While VLC likes to advertise itself to anime watchers, it's an audience that on average cares a lot more about high quality playback than many others.

That's rich, considering the majority of anime today is garbage in production quality compared to anime of the past (in animation and story). Anime fans care deeply about playback quality? Yeah right. The minority do. The majority watch from CrunchyRoll or some free site like gogoanime. People such as yourself are such a rare breed, it would be an utter waste of time and resources for VLC to cater to you, and I'm not even sure why they make any attempts.

Um, I don't know about you, but I like how VLC "just works", is extremely portable, and I'm very uncomfortable with codec packs, they have a tendency to screw up video and audio playback and are often quite bloated. (Plus I like free software)

So I don't see a problem with VLC.

The Daiz summons works on HN too I see.

I agree that 10-bit playback needs to be addressed. However it seems either CCCP or mplayer2 work great with no noticeable difference in quality. Only VLC seems to have an issue with decoding 10-bit video streams.

Works fantastically well for everything else though.