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Hey peeps

Hi all! I'm quite new here and this is my first thread here. Not really all that experienced in posting on online forums so there'll probably be a few errors and typos here and there. Apologies in advance!

Anyway here I'm gonna be doing a mini guide here on some of the settings that you can set to increase the visual fidelity of your videos(especially anime) using SVP. I'm aware that there is already a default guide for anime and this guide is just an alternative option for those with extra horsepower idling around in their system and I'm NOT trying to say that this guide is the like "the BEST" for anime or the one provided by SVP is "louuusy" by any means haha

If you are one of those people who have too much time everyday, watches tons of anime variety shows, movies and have a powerful system to boot, then you could possibly consider using some of the settings in this guide to give a mini boost to your videos. Why mini though? Well the settings that I'm posting here are my own personal settings that I've tested and am using to watch mostly anime atm so the results may differ on your system and the media that you'll be watching. Also, the perceived increase in quality is quite arguable on whether it was worth the increase in power consumption too....

Now lets get down to the actual setup that I'm using at the moment for anime.

Note: This guide assumes that you have already installed the latest version of SVP (at the time of writing it's 3.1.6), installed LAV, ffdshow raw video filters as well as madVR. This also assumes that SVP is already running well on your system and that your system is a rather powerful rig at that!:)
The objective of this guide is to enable both SVP and 10bit playback for anime at the same time as well as increase the quality of the output using madVR. If you've realised that many fansub sites do offer guides on using madVR for 10bit playback and such but not many have a guide on enabling 10bit madVR as well as smooth motion at the same time. This guide thus offers one possible solution for you:)
Do note that this may not be the best or the only output method; I'm sure some other way is possible as well.

Here's are some helpful links for you to go to if you have not done the initial setup:
Default MPC-HC setup: http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:MPC-HC
User Manual: http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVP:User_manual
SVP's own Anime Settings guide: http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Watching_anime

Currently, I'm using the following:

MPC-HC 1.7.7
Lav Filters 0.6.3
ffdshow tryouts rev4532
madVR 0.87.10

Settings in MPC:

Output

Internal Filters
(Disable the transform filters and some of the source filters as seen in the screencaps here)

External Filters
(You can add ReClock here if you want to)

ffdshow filter settings
(Ensure that you enable 10bit output!)

LAV Settings
(If you do not have an nvidia gpu just choose DXVA copy-back)

madVR Settings
(The following are optional; customise it your own way but you need to disable madVR's smooth motion option)

DISABLE:

Now if you've been using the settings as above, you should now be seeing the following:

Make sure its ffdshow raw filter and not decoder

ITS 10BIT!!!! OOOMGMGMMGMGGGGGGG... lol

Anyway now you shld be able to enjoy your animes in not only that smooth fps but also in 10bit:D

My own SVP settings:
They probably aren't the mose efficient nor are they the best. It gives me the best average results on the various animes that I watch though.

1080@23.976 => 1080@144

720@23.976 => 720@144

The settings here are intended for playback at 144hz. If you are just going for 60, you could probably bump up the grid step to global refinement and search radius for 1080p.
Do take note that these are just what I'm using. Feel free to use something else if they don't work well.

Things to note however:
Should you have issues with performance, here's some options you can consider:
1) Choose EVR Custom presenter instead of madVR as the output device (This will likely reduce the load by quite a bit, not sure whether 10bit playback will still be available.)
2) Lower settings inside madVR
3) Lower your SVP Settings. Notably the "frame interpolation mode", "SVP Shader", "search radius" as well as "grid step" and "vector precision
4) OC your GPU and CPU? Do be careful in doing so though. Frying either one of them isn't a good option.

Using the settings here may post an immense amount of stress on your system, especially CPU! You absolutely need at least a quad-core i5/AMD equivalent or above and a dedicated GPU for the settings here to work as intended. More threads are welcome! A good GPU is quite helpful as well! In fact, this thing stresses my system even more than BF4 does:

OMG LOL. near 100% utilisation most of the time.

As a reference here's my system specs:
i7-3930k@4.5GHz with H100i, custom fan speed curve
RIVE with 32GB RAM(8GB is more than enough)
GTX680 DCII 2GB, 1200MHz Boost

Hopefully this guide was of some help to some of you peeps here!