madVR: how to get the maximum quality out of a video

The first time I met madVR was when I discovered a new checkbox in the MPC Home Cinema settings. As it turned out, the video quality received at the output of madVR video renderer is simply not comparable with anything that I used before (EVR, Overlay, VMR 7, 9 and Haali). madVR was created with the aim of displaying video of the highest possible quality. What are the features of madVR and how does it get video of such high quality?

The main chips madVR include:

• smooth motion rendering in the frame (smooth motion rendering)
• high quality color sampling (chroma upsampling)
• high quality conversion YCbCr -> RGB,
• high-quality video scaling algorithms (bicubic, mitchell, lanczos, spline etc)
• spectrum and contrast correction for different types of monitors (gamut & gamma correction)
• GPU video processing in 16 bit lossless mode

As I mentioned, MPC HC has been supporting madVR for quite some time, as well as KmPlayer and Zoom Player.

All you need to try this video renderer in action is to unzip the downloaded zip file (link to download the latest version) to a separate folder and install by clicking on install.bat.
After that, in the settings (Settings-Play-Output), select madVR.

Settings for madVR itself are available after starting the video and right-clicking Filters-madVRRenderer. Everything works fine for me with the default settings, but if desired, there are a lot of options there to adjust to your taste and power of the video card.

Discussion madVR, wishes for the developer and bug reports can be left in a special branchon the Doom9 forum. There on the first page you can see a comparison in quality with competitors.