They may be clean nowadays who knows but they used to be riddled with so many codecs to install it was ridiculous.In VLC, we can press the C key on the keyboard to cycle through the various crop settings that will expand the video to fill the Predator’s screen space.

all they are nowadays is some player such as MPC + LAV + MadVR for convenience, but you may get some older versions, some bloatware from the pack installer, etc. If you're getting even OSD messages in black and it's not set black in VLC's settings then it's an issue with VLC itself or the subtitle renderer it uses.įor a decade or more you don't need those Klite mega codec pack, or CCCP codec pack, or what ever other crazy pack. Never had much luck with VLC at any time, sure it's better nowadays and maybe it allows you to switch to different filter now, who knows. The PP as written above is what I use now and it will play anything new or old obscure and you have a crap ton of settings to choose from + MadVR with it's endless processing that is useful for poor old sources such as DVDs. There are some tiny things in terms of performance to not use LAV Video decoder and use built in from PotPlayer, and some rare issue I don't remember anymore of some format that, oh yeah it was 4k at ridiculously high bitrate (70GB+ fan movie) that would choke and stutter on PP's built in splitter so just use LAV splitter (source) and it works fine.

PotPlayer with it's built in codecs + LAV splitter (+LAV Audio decoder if you prefer it due to it's settings) + MadVR (it's pretty much a successor to KMPlayer which also had a lot of settings and features)īoth of these do animated subtitles. MPCHC with builtin LAV + MadVR, or MPCHC + external LAV + MadVR

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