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Awww, don't give up that easily!  The thing is, SVP4 Free is totally not optimized for low-end hardware.  I mean, even at 800MHz your tablet should still be faster than my aforementioned Core 2 Duo T8300 that lacks any sort of GPU acceleration!

And for reference, this is even with doing x2.5 interpolation with 24fps content.  If you'd like, I could even share my exact profile settings.

Just remember that it's much more difficult for the average user to achieve the best possible result for a given hardware config in mpv due to the difficulty of configuring the program.

It exists on YouTube, but that doesn't mean SVPtube2 supports them.

And my dual core (without SMT) Pentium G3258 only has 2 threads, yet I need to set SVP to 7 threads to get the most performance out of it when I'm overclocked to 4.6GHz.

For whatever reason, when manually setting the thread count, you need to use more than double the amount of physical CPU cores that you have (though I'm not so sure this applies to SMT threads).  Since you have a quad core with 4 SMT threads, that'd be [4 x 2] + 4 = 12, so you really should have been using 13 threads as a minimum (possibly more if overclocked).

...so did I.

It takes less processor grunt to do 24fps --to-> 48Hz than 24fps --to-> 60Hz; just because you can't do the latter doesn't mean you'd be unable to do the former (and it's actually smoother to boot).  My fown Nvidia NVS 3100M can't do 720p 24fps --to-> 60Hz at all, but 720p 24fps --to-> 48Hz is completely within its capabilities.

It could be the wacky issue where SVP isn't using enough threads.  Try to manually increase the amount of threads (Application settings -> Additional options -> Processing threads) until performance is good (assuming it does get better).

They're not available in the free version of SVP4 unless you use Linux.

Either stick to SVP3, buy SVP4 Pro, or switch to Linux*

*though with my Linux newbie-ness I wasn't able to get it working on Linux Mint 18; I've been meaning to make thread about that but I've been more concerned about my weird flicker issue that seems to have either been missed, ignored, or maybe nobody knows the cause.

Unless you want to deal with seemingly-random program crashes when using SVP or use a completely different media player, stick with the x86 version of MPC-HC; also make sure it's not the pdb version:
https://nightly.mpc-hc.org/

Just remember that you may need to manually set up MPC-HC for SVP.  If you do need to, refer to these instructions:
http://svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:MPC-HC

I may not be correct on this, but I believe that SVP downloads the stable 1.7.10 version.

...so still faster than my Core 2 Duo T8300 that lacks any sort of GPU acceleration or decoding.

I made a lengthy post a year or so ago detailing various tricks on making due with a lower-performance PC in SVP.  Lemme see if I can find it...

EDIT: Found it, but the post isn't that clear.  Basically do the following in MPC-HC:

1. EVR custom presenter
2. Use D3D Fullscreen
3. Disable any accurate vsync
4. Use the Bilinear (not PS 2.0) resizer unless there is minimal performance difference between Bilinear and Bicubic on your PC
5. Set your screen refresh rate to always be 2x of the source fps (for 48Hz for a 24fps video, 50Hz for 25fps, 60Hz for 30fps, etc)
6. Beware of 10bit AVC/h.264 videos (popular with anime); unlike VP9 and HEVC/h.265, hardware decoding of 10bit AVC/h.264 is extremely uncommon (no AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPU supports it)

In SVP (assuming you're using a 720p video)...

1. Manually set threads to at least 5 (lower CPU utilization) and at most 7 (more performance head-room)
2. Enable "resize to HD" (may not need to be manually set if your screen resolution is set to 1280x720)
3. Do not use automatic settings (see: http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2699)
4. Only use x2 interpolation (may not need to be manually set if you're following #5 above)
5. Always use "Uniform"
6. Set motion vectors precision to "Two pixel"
7. Set motion vectors grid to "16px"
8. Try to set the shader to "Standard"; otherwise use "Simple Lite" (use "Sharp" for anime)

If you end up actually having some performance headroom left over, then try increasing the motion vectors grid to 14px and maybe even 12px, but sometimes it's actually better to instead set motion vectors precision to "One pixel", so fiddle with those two settings.

If you aren't able to always do x2 interpolation, then keep in mind that doing something like 1m + standard shader will actually give less artifacts than Uniform + simple lite, though the latter will be smoother.

Psst, 99.99% of "MP3" players can play AAC as well (it is what itunes uses afterall), and literally every single YouTube video has at least one audio track that's encoded in AAC.

Heck, with a lot of players, you can just download the actual MP4 file, rename the extension to .M4A, and it'll just play back as an ordinary AAC music file - this even worked on the built-in USB audio system in my father's 2016 Lincoln MKS/Z (I'm dumb and can't remember if he has an S or a Z).

...except for configuring automatic changing of your screen resolution/refresh rate - to achieve the same thing in mpv you practically have to be savvy in coding and/or command line-like stuff.  By comparison such functionality is built right into MPC-HC's options GUI.

Also, MPC-HC with D3D Fullsceen and the bilinear (not PS 2.0) resizer is definitely the fastest and lightest-weight method of video playback which is very important for older PCs (read: Core 2 Duo systems with 10-year-old Intel integrated graphics).