DeskScapes & DirectShow Video Renderer

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Dear Developers and/or Users,

I use DeskScapes 8.51 for marvellous FullHD & UHD mp4 video files (renamed to avi) on my Windows 10 x64 desktop.

Everything works perfectly, only one problem is the quality of the video rendering.

The DeskScapes's video quality is completly same when I play the mp4 files in MPC-HC media player with system default video renderer. But this is very poor, with grey blacks and pale colors. Something like when the RGB output level is not the full PC scale (0-255) only 16-235, but in LAVFilters I setted it to 0-255 already. 

When I change the video renderer in MPC-HC to anything else (VMR, EVR, Sync, madVR) than the video quality will much better (with deep blacks and contrasted colors (I've a VA type LCD monitor with good blacklevels)) and nice. But in DeskScapes there is no possible to change the directshow video renderer. Could I change or filtering the video renderer type of DeskScapes in any other way?

 

Regards,

Gábor

 

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not I aware of. DeskScapes simply apply the codecs from your system and some limitations based on various hardware settings. Simply put,it wasn't smart-proof to adjust. 

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Deskscapes uses the VMR-9 renderer.  Be aware that it will be using 64 bit codecs when on a 64 bit system.

The issue sounds like one caused by your video driver settings as there is usually a setting in there to indicate which range of colours to use for video.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 2

Deskscapes uses the VMR-9 renderer.  Be aware that it will be using 64 bit codecs when on a 64 bit system.

The issue sounds like one caused by your video driver settings as there is usually a setting in there to indicate which range of colours to use for video.
End of Neil's quote

 

Yes! You are right, thanks! :beer:  

The solution was in the Nvidia driver video color gamma & RGB range settings! :)

I tried everything with the renderers, changed the priority of the different dlls with "Merit" data, rename the dlls, but DeskScapes always used the quartz.dll (VMR-9).