Pure Codec

[system28]

Why is madvr recommended? Is it because it of GPU assist?

No

this ist the first version (as far as i know) which has GPU assist. Its made to bring the best possible Quality. It needs a High Power Computer to run smooth. The Quality has to do with "LUT" and a lot more parameters/stuff. Its all very technical, if you want more Informations, check the Link at bottom of this post.

- high quality chroma upsampling
- high quality scaling (bicubic, mitchell, lanczos, spline etc)
- high quality YCbCr -> RGB conversion
- gamut & gamma correction for display calibration
- full 16bit processing queue
- final 16bit processing result is dithered down to RGB output bitdepth
- bypasses graphics card's video (damage) algorithms
- all work is done via GPU shaders
- no shortcuts, highest quality has priority over anything else


READ (AND SEE) MORE HERE:

madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted) - Doom9's Forum <----- Learn more here

and again the Link for configuration:

Tutorial madVR - Configuration - HomeCinema-HD

[Owyn]

Why is madvr recommended? Is it because of its GPU assist?

because of quality

[Gapo]

because of quality

This is better than CoreCodec as well?

[system28]

If you talking about CoreAVC:

CoreAVC´s goal is to be fast and have a low CPU consumption. In this case its highly developed.

When we talk about Quality, madvr is better. Madvr is much slower and needs extreme CPU-Power/GPU-Power.

Look at post #16:

highest quality has priority over anything else

[fuzzy]

All this codec talk is making me point out one very important aspect: your mileage my vary depending on your screen. I've noticed better quality with default MediaPlayer HC on a 50'' LCD TV than with madvr, and the reversed on the notebook screen and on the LCD monitor sitting on my desk.