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  1. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    The last time I installed klite codec, I generally just installed the lav filters and madvr. The rest of the stuff I didn't bother installing, and opted out of the crapware offers. I usually just grabbed media player classic from the official web site, instead of using the one packaged with...
  2. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    If I wanted to be very minimal, I would be inclined to just unzip media player classic into my own directory, and install madVR by itself, without using any of the repackagers.
  3. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    The K-Lite codec standard version has madVR and media player classic straight out of the box. Easier to install.
  4. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    For movies and tv shows, I mostly use Media Player Classic with MadVR. PotPlayer is a good too, which I sometimes use. For audio files and short dumb videos (ie. cat tricks videos, rock videos, news clips, youtube clips, etc ...), I use videolan. VideoLan is easy and fast, but it has some...
  5. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    There's other players like Media Player Classic, VideoLan, PotPlayer, etc ... If you like tinkering and have a fast enough graphics card, there's madVR which can be used as a renderer in Media Player Classic. (I think PotPlayer can use madVR too).
  6. jcroy

    Evaluating a proposed HTPC build - thoughts, comments, guidance most welcome

    The question is what exactly is eating up most of the space on a particular hard drive. If the vast majority of the disc space is being eaten up by media types files (ie. audio and video), then there's not much that can be done, other than deleting some of the audio or video files. Another...
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