Video Playback Options

Tools > Options > Video

Player > Playback Options

See also: Playback Options

General Video Settings

Video mode

This allows selection of video mode options including:

• Red October Standard
• Red October HQ

with custom options for each including configuring the playback method, decoders and more for each file type.

This topic has several related help topics:

• Red October (DirectShow in MC16 & MC17
• DirectShow Playback Guide: Advanced DirectShow Configuration in MC12
• DirectShow Playback Guide: DVD and MPEG-2
• DVD Playback Fails

Hardware accelerate video decoding when possible

This option allows certain video processing operations to be offloaded to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), reducing demand on the CPU.

Bitstreaming

This option allows setup to send the encoded audio data stream directly to the sound device. Selecting this option will exclude use of many of Media Center's audio processing capabilities.

VideoClock

This option enables VideoClock which is a key part of Media Centre's solution to smooth video playback.

For more information see 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.

Advanced

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.

Notes

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