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No idea about anything else, that's all I knew. Honestly this is even more complicated than me than my Chemistry classes. madVR, ffdshow, LAV, this filter, that filter along with zillion settings, I guess I don't need to use madVR any more, cause I am mad 
About Alt+Enter not working, well you can go to madVR settings (right click on taskbar) and you can change it under the setting labelled as automatic fullscreen exclusive mode. You can change it to whatever key combo (or single key) you want, but I could not figure out how to use the Right Alt key and Enter key, I mean you can type Alt+Enter but that means the left Alt key, I for the life of me could not figure out how to use the Right Alt key instead of Left! So right now I am using F11 to toggle fullscreen on and off, LOL, cause that's what Chrome uses.
Update: I have messed up everything! I can't find the LAV Audio decoder option any more while a movie is being played
lolwut? None of SVP's settings touch the MPC-HC settings at all, so how'd you manage to do that?
Don't know how mate, but I changed something under LAV settings and it wasn't coming at all! Anyway, reinstalling LAV drivers made everything okay.
Could you please answer my actual query, I mean where could I find and change the settings in SVP like you told?
PS: One more question, will there be any problem if I keep GPU Acceleration off (OpenCL)? When I enable it a frame is skipped when a video is finished, I mean at very end!
Okay, I think it's time to make the artifact effects to be minimised as much as possible. So I have only changed the use autochange fullscreen monitor mode under MPC's settings, http://i.imgur.com/YAE74gn.jpg but as for the other options like mentioned on Post 4, well where I do I find those settings? I mean Reduce Grip Step etc. settings.
Update: I have messed up everything! I can't find the LAV Audio decoder option any more while a movie is being played 
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I did install the full version (32 MB one), but I unchecked the the option install MPC-HC v 1.7.3, customise for SVP while installing (as the screenshot on my previous post shows) while installing, along with all the sub-options under it. But never mind, it works now, that prefer option on the external filter did the trick, so thanks to you once again.
You can use any version of MPC-HC just as long as you have the "ffdshow raw video filter" listed and enabled in MPC-HC's Options -> External Filters. If it's not listed, then click "Add Filter...", find it from the list, click "OK", select the newly added filter on the list, select "Prefer", click OK and restart MPC-HC.
Okay, so I uninstalled SVP and reinstalled it with everything disabled (see the photo), but now it won't load SVP when I am playing a video. The icon on taskbar says "waiting for ffdshow video" when I hover the mouse pointer over it. I have added the external filter, the ffdshow raw video filter by the way! So I guess I need to install the pre-bundled pack (MPC-HC 1.7.3) which comes with SVP package.
http://i.imgur.com/fXYkDhS.jpg
Regarding artifacting, you'll want your monitor and/or display to be running at a refresh rate that is an exact multiple of the video source. Skyfall is a movie, so it's 24fps - therefore you should optimally have your monitor running at 48hz, 72hz, 96hz, 120hz, or 144hz. Intel and Nvidia graphics control panels have built-in options for custom resolutions and refresh rates, and AMD Radeon user can use CRU - Custom Resolution Utility (note that for some displays, like 1440p monitors, you may have to use a lower resolution like 1080p in order to run at something like 72hz). I highly recommend using MPC-HC's built in framerate fullscreen resolution changing function which can be found in MPC-HC's Options -> Playback -> Fullscreen - Use autochange fullscreen monitor modes
If you've done that, then make sure you aren't using and SVP settings that are higher than the ones selected by default. If the artifacting is still too much, then try setting "Reduce Grid Step" to one of the following settings (each resulting in higher CPU utilization):
- To small step
- By two with local refinement
- By two with global refinementNote that for videos that are not HD, aka 480p or lower, you do not want to use the "By two with ____ refinement" settings but instead should use "To smallest step" (if your CPU isn't fast enough you can use "To small step" as well, but smallest step is better)
If that still doesn't give enough reduction in artifacts, then try reducing the "Frames interpolation mode" by one click, testing for artifacting, and then reducing it by another click if necessary, repeating until you're satisfied or until you reach "2m (min artifacts)"
Alternatively, you can try reducing the "Motion vectors grid" by one click, testing for artifacting, and then repeating until satisfied or until you reach "32px Large 0"
Okay, let me try this, I will come back later. Just FYI I have a 60 Hz monitor, Dell U2412M.
Hi, you can get the latest MPC-HC versions here: http://nightly.mpc-hc.org/
In my experience the last few versions of MPC-HC are much, much faster than the older ones (presumably because the newest version of the LAV decoder (included in MPC-HC) offers the following functionality: "DXVA2 Copy-Back in direct output mode uses up to 50% less CPU and performance is improved accordingly.")
I have a rig roughly approximating yours and I have finally achieved perfect, artifact-free performance due to the latter.
In my experience, updating everything with the latest version almost never results in compatibility issues.
Good luck!
Thanks mate. But are the Nightlies stable versions? I am scared of the term Nightly actually, because of Cyanogenmod 
The version I have is the latest stable one, version 1.7.8, yes, it is 32 bit, as madVR isn't compatible with 64 bit versions either.
Hi,
I was informed about this project by a member in Anandtech forum few days ago and I just finally had the time to install the package now and I loaded a movie, and I honestly don't know what to say! I mean the difference is even bigger I suppose than when we moved to 720p from DVD resolution! Damn!
Anyway, I registered here to ask a few things, firstly, while I was installing the SVP package it asked me to install the MPC-HC, customised for SVP option and I selected it, but the thing is I already had the latest version of MPC-HC installed, so would there be any conflict between them, or shall I deselect all the options and install with SVP only again? I use MPC-HC with madVR by the way.
Secondly, coming to the project itself, I didn't have much to play on my hard drive as most things are on my external to which I don't have access at this instant, so I just played the only movie I had, which is Skyfall (1080p, DTS), but I noticed some artifacts in different scenes, especially where Bond would get shot on the moving train and fall to the river, I mean I noticed very serious artifact effects there. I mean it looked like there were at least a few trails falling down to the river, not one person, I don't know if I am making myself clear but that's what I can say, maybe artifact is a wrong term, can't say really.
Oh, I don't know whether PC specs matter or not, but I have a pretty old rig, i7 950, GTX580 (1.5GB) and 8 gigs of memory, that's all.
So if there's any guide which I can follow kindly redirect me to it, and kindly answer to the questions I asked. I am not an advanced user, so go easy in case I have asked something wrong.
Thanks in advance.
PS: I don't speak English by the way, so pardon all the grammatical mistakes.
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