• First locate a file to play that is ideally 10bit and optionally contains FLAC audio. You may also want to take this time to set MPC-HC as your default video player for everything. Now once your video is playing you can right click on the video and select the Filters tab as seen in the image below. This tab will list all the current filters being used on the video if it contains FLAC you will see madFlac Decoder in the list and otherwise you will see ffdshow Audio Decoder.

    Select madVR from the filter list and Edit Settings. Next under processing select deinterlacing and deselect "only look at pixels in the frame center" as shown below. If you think you should leave this selected becuase you do not watch Anime your wrong as the correct solution is to only watch Anime from now on!
    If you think you should leave this selected becuase you do not watch Anime your wrong as the correct solution is to only watch Anime from now on!
    Now it is time to configure the scaling algorithms and maximize image quality. The settings for madVR are listed in order from "will look like shit" to "will look as good as possible with existing technology". There are 4 possible negative results from your settings.

    Hide Source Artifacts may sound good but in reality is just another way of saying reduce image quality but hey if you never want to see film grain when a director wants you to go ahead and find an option to jack this up so you can enjoy shit video.

    Aliasing, you know that stuff that you try to get rid of in video games by setting Anti-aliasing all the way up... In video you usually see this as a distortion when looking at things like thinly striped shirts and brick walls.

    Ringing, artifacts that from around the edge of an object generally in the form of small color distortion. Extreme examples of this can be found by saving jpeg files with too high of compression or saving the same file in jpeg a crap ton of times.

    Other Artifacts are obviously other things that can make your video look like shit.

    So how should you configure the 3 options!? Well no matter what you do your going to want to enable the anti-ringer filter and the option to scale in linear light whenever possible. Second your going to just want to copy my configuration from the images below. Note that these options assume your computer is fast, it is not fast you can either have crappy video quality by selecting other options that yield better performance or by buying a faster computer.



    Now just to make things difficult madVR has some options set on that should be set to off so under rendering go to general settings and uncheck "enable automatic fullscreen exclusive mode" as shown below. You can also take this time to uncheck everything else but if you get playback problems afterword just recheck them.

    Next lets assume you want smooth video so be sure to enable it by selecting smooth motion and then clicking the box to enable it like in the image below.
    Lastly there is a section called "trade quality for performance" where the option to trade performance to make my video look perfect still eludes us so for now lets select this and then deselect every option like in image below so that we can have the quality we want!

    Congratulations, you have now configured everything and hopefully have the optimal sound and video quality! To ensure that your 10bit playback is working correctly you will want to load up a 10bit video file and then press crtl+j and see that it says 10 bit -> 10 bit and not 10 bit -> 8 bit. Put simply it should look like the image below and your good.
    Press crtl+j and see that it says 10 bit -> 10 bit and not 10 bit -> 8 bit.

    Please go to the next page to leave comments on this guide or to ask questions regarding ideal MPC-HC setup and configuration.
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