Name: Anonymous 2011-01-24 21:05
I was using Media Player Classic for, like, forever; but recently I've been using Linux and hence discovered VLC. It works nice under Linux and I liked it, so installed it on Windows too. Here it was another story, though - you can't seek a lot of files properly (mainly .mkv files, perhaps due to h264's structure?) and there were few disadvantages that I didn't notice while on Linux (listing them here is not the point). After trying VLC out for few days I switched back to MPC.
Still, VLC has this great feature: you can speed up the playback to any % you might want (.., 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, ...). I found it extremely useful and played most of video files with 110-120% speed-up, so it was only natural for me to want to use it in MPC too, after switching back to it. MPC, however, offers only fixed % (25, 50, 100, 200, 400 - rather unusable values) and it doesn't fix audio pitch resulting in unpleasant distortions (when speeding up, people sound like gnats, when speeding down, people sound like.. IDK).
So... is there any way to make MPC feature speed up % I want (perhaps some external preprocessing codec)? Or is there any neat video player that would allow me to use external codecs (ffdshow etc) and feature this functionality?
Still, VLC has this great feature: you can speed up the playback to any % you might want (.., 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, ...). I found it extremely useful and played most of video files with 110-120% speed-up, so it was only natural for me to want to use it in MPC too, after switching back to it. MPC, however, offers only fixed % (25, 50, 100, 200, 400 - rather unusable values) and it doesn't fix audio pitch resulting in unpleasant distortions (when speeding up, people sound like gnats, when speeding down, people sound like.. IDK).
So... is there any way to make MPC feature speed up % I want (perhaps some external preprocessing codec)? Or is there any neat video player that would allow me to use external codecs (ffdshow etc) and feature this functionality?