HOW_DO_I_PLAYED_BACK.txt

[VIDEO]

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 64-bit Installer / https://mpc-hc.org/downloads/
XySubFilter x64 / https://github.com/Cyberbeing/xy-VSFilter/releases
madVR / http://madshi.net/madVR.zip

1.  Uninstall all codec packs, previous instances of the aforementioned, and the like, and delete their settings if prompted.
2.  Reboot.
3.  Install MPC-HC with default settings.
4.  Extract the XySubFilter archive into a new "XySubFilter" directory in your "C:\Program Files" directory.
5.  Right-click on "Install_XySubFilter.bat" in the "XySubFilter" directory you just populated, and then click on "Run as administrator".
6.  Extract "madVR.zip" into a new "madVR" directory in your "C:\Program Files" directory.
7.  Right-click on "install.bat" in the "madVR" directory you just populated, and then click on "Run as administrator".
8.  Start MPC-HC, go to "View" -> "Options..." -> "Playback" -> "Output", and select "madVR" under "DirectShow Video"
    and "XySubFilter" under "Subtitle Renderer".
9.  Go to "View" -> "Options..." -> "Internal Filters", click on "Video decoder", and select "None" in the
    "Hardware Decoder to use" dropdown menu in the "Hardware Acceleration" section. Click on "OK", and click on "OK".
10. Play a video file, go to "Play" -> "Filters", click on "madVR", and click on "Edit Settings".
11. Go to "processing" -> "artifact removal" and check "reduce banding artifacts" and "reduce ringing artifacts".
12. Go to "processing" -> "zoom control" and set "move subtitles:" to "... into active video area".
13. [Skip this step unless your graphics card is extremely fast!]
    Go to "scaling algorithms" and select "NGU" with "Anti-Alias, medium quality" in the "chroma upscaling" submenu,
    "SSIM" with "2D - strength: 100%", "scale in linear light", and "activate anti-ringing filter" in the "image downscaling" submenu,
    and "NGU Anti-Alias" with "medium", "medium", "let madVR decide", "let madVR decide", "let madVR decide", "Jinc AR",
    and "use 'image downscaling' settings" in the "image upscaling" submenu.
14. Go to "rendering" -> "general settings" and check "use Direct3D 11 for presentation".
15. Go to "rendering" -> "dithering" and select "Error Diffusion - option 2".
16. Go to "rendering" -> "trade quality for performance" and uncheck all but "optimize subtitle quality for performance instead of quality".
17. Click on "OK", click on "OK", and restart MPC-HC.



[AUDIO]

foobar2000 / https://www.foobar2000.org/

1.  Install.
2.  Add components as you see fit. The ones you need are almost always available on the official site.
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/ is also noteworthy.
3.  Search Hydrogenaudio / https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/board,33.0.html for additional components.