External players can be used in many things but can cause many many issues. Most people with HTPCs are going to be using Mediaportal, XBMC and 7MC and out the box none of these will work with madVR. I would say that this is likely to end up replacing FFDShow in the long term but for now it is certainly worth using the splitter and possibly the audio but if you are using a front end with 10' UI then the video stuff is still not really worth it IMHO. The audio stuff is worth a play for HD bitstreaming but the underlying code is still ffmpeg like FFDShow. Installing this on it's own should be sufficient for most users. The splitter certainly seems great and irons out many of the issues with Haali and the MPC splitters. LAV GUVID is also limited to 32 bit and limited to NVidia cards.Īs many of you know, I don't like installing things for the sake of it. In theory yes this is good but there is no way to use it with overlays so in front ends you loose the ability for menus etc (indeed anything that would appear over the video). MadVR however is a different kettle of fish. I have also been playing with the audio filter which seems to work pretty well but is still in development. LAV seems to cope with many more containers. Haali for a long time has been lacking in some features and has I believe development has largely gronud to a halt. I have been using the LAV splitter for a while now. Go back to doom9 read the lav cuvid and madvr threads, go to AVS forums and read the couple threads on it and get back to me. GT 440 DDR3: 96 sp, 28.8GB/s (this is an OCed version of GT 430) So you'll want at least a gts 450 preferably a gtx 460 You need to use a gpu with a good number of stream processors as well. This is hands down the best possible picture quality you can achieve with a pc.

No one has been able been able to make software that will allow you to do this with ATI's cards. It uses the same technology that has only been available to video games.

Using madvr video renderer with lav cuvid video decoder allows allow it to access the NVIDIA CUDA api for video processing.

You have absolutly no idea what you are talking about.

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