Topic: Did SVP "break" my MPC-HC?

Hey guys, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to continue using SVP on my older hardware and wanting to watch 4k media so I often find myself clicking on Temporarily disable SVP but when I do so, I notice my image gets noticeably drab. Much of the image color is taken away and I'm not sure what SVP enables that isn't automatically enabled without it on. The thing is, prior to getting SVP I could have sworn the image was always brighter and looked fine. As a test, I tried using VLC and got the better looking picture so it seems like it's affecting MPC-HC only, can anyone tell me what setting might get turned off by disabling SVP?

If you look at the screenshot I took, you can see the difference in color, the top snip is the program running with svp disabled and the bottom is with it on.

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Re: Did SVP "break" my MPC-HC?

looking into the crystal ball: you're playing HDR video via ffdshow filter and SVP is doing "HDR colors recovering" while it's enabled
switch to Avisynth Filter (https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Avisynth_Filter_(AVSF)) + madVR for proper HDR playback

3 Reply by crespoh69 (edited by crespoh69 03-02-2022 06:01:18)

Re: Did SVP "break" my MPC-HC?

Chainik wrote:

looking into the crystal ball: you're playing HDR video via ffdshow filter and SVP is doing "HDR colors recovering" while it's enabled
switch to Avisynth Filter (https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Avisynth_Filter_(AVSF)) + madVR for proper HDR playback

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, I already had Avisynth setup as shown on that writeup but didn't have madVR. I do remember having it setup previously but it was bogging my system up even more so removed it.

In any case, I tried adding MadVR while it was enabled and it's still the same issue with the colors being washed out.

EDIT: Actually, never mind! I tried it again and it appears to be working flawlessly now!