Video Playback Options

Tools > Options > Video

Player > Playback Options

See also: Playback Options

Audio for Video, DVD, & Television

Playback device

This configures what device to use for audio playback of videos.

If you choose Same as device used in audio playback, the audio will be routed through the J. River audio engine. This allows using ASIO, WASAPI, DSPs like Room Correction, VST plugins, and more. See Audio Playback Options for configuring audio output.

You can also choose a system output device to target a specific soundcard, or Default Windows playback device to target the Windows default soundcard. These modes will not use the J. River audio engine, so high-quality output and/or DSP will be disabled.

Finally, you can choose Reclock, a popular third party audio renderer, here.

Connection type

Select the most correct connection type so that Media Center can properly decide if it should do encoded digital output like AC3 or if it should do PCM output. You can learn more about this selection here Audio Connection Type

General Video Settings

Video mode

Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible

Bitstreaming

VideoClock

Normalise volume

Subtitles & Language

Subtitle mode

Allows configuring subtitle behavior for video playback.

Default subtitle language

Selects the subtitle language or none, if preferred.

Default audio language

Allows setting the language used for video playback when a video has more than one language.

Subtitle size

Subtitle font

Display Settings

Allows selecting automatic changing of display refresh rate and resolution settings dependent on the fps (frames per second setting for the video file.

Select an appropriate value for each of Film, NTSC and PAL.

Non-DVD Video

Aspect ratio

Allows controlling the aspect ratio of playback (16x9, etc.).

Crop edges

Trims a little from the edge of the picture. Useful for HDTV broadcasts that sometimes have junk in the overscan area of the picture.

Use WMV acceleration if available

Turn this off to disable WMV hardware acceleration. This is only needed for WMV files with DRM played on problematic hardware.

DVD

further information: DVD Playback Fails

Swap fast play and jump commands

If you like to fast forward and rewind instead of jump when pushing left / right during playback, enable this option.

Use bitrate monitor

Enables J. River bitrate monitor filters, which shows the playback bitrate in the player display area of the program.

Use FFDShow video decoder for post processing

Allows performing advanced video processing using FFDShow.

Decoders, Renderers, & More

This allows configuring the playback method, decoders and more for each file type.

This topic has several related help topics:

• Red October (DirectShow in MC16
• DirectShow Playback Guide: Advanced DirectShow Configuration in MC12
• DirectShow Playback Guide: DVD and MPEG-2
• DVD Playback Fails

Notes

Many settings on this page only take effect when playback is stopped and restarted.