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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.14

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. MPC-HC is based on the original Guliverkli project and contains many additional features and bug fixes. MPC-HC isn’t flashy but it works with nearly any media format. MPC-HC uses DXVA technology to pass decoding operations to your modern video card, enhancing your viewing experience. And MPC-HC supports both physical and software DVDs with menus, chapter navigation, and subtitles.

This is an unofficial build. It is based on the latest source code of the official project, plus several additional fixes and improvements. And most importantly, it includes the very latest version of LAV Filters!
Overview of features

A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:
Dark interface
  • Menu > View > Dark Theme
  • When using dark theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
  • Options > Advanced
Video preview on the seekbar
  • Options > Tweaks > Show preview on seek bar
Adjust playback speed
  • Menu > Play > Playback rate
  • The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
  • Options > Playback > Speed step
  • Adjusting playback speed works best with the internal audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
  • Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
  • Options > Player > History
  • You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
  • You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
  • You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
  • Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
  • Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
  • A-B repeat - You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
  • Menu > View > Pan&Scan
  • This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
  • Options > Player > Keys
  • Tip: there is a search box above the table.
You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
  • Put youtube-dl.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
  • Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
  • You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
  • Tip: to be able to download in best quality with youtube-dl, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
  • Several configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
Play HDR video
  • This requires using madVR or MPC Video Renderer.
  • After installation these renderers can be selected here:
  • Options > Playback > Output
Ability to search for and download subtitles, either automatically or manually (press D):
  • Options > Subtitles > Misc
Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.14 changelog:
Updates
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.75.1

Changes/additions/improvements
  • Some optimizations in the filter graph builder. Should give a small reduction in file loading time in some situations.
  • Added a small safezone above and below the seekbar where (accidental) mouse clicks/drags are ignored.
  • Improved backwards framestep for DVDs. It now seeks back ~500ms to ensure it shows a different frame. The DVD Navigator unfortunately does not offer better accuracy.
  • Improved region code handling for DVDs
  • Added support for loading external fonts for SSA/ASS subtitles. The player check for "fonts" subfolder in location of video file.

Fixes
  • Fixed regression that broke loading of audio dub through command line parameter

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daos

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But when you add a youtube link in the playlist does it list the title of the youtube video and it's thumbnail without me having to click on the link?
Otherwise if i add 10 youtube links in the playlist and i can't distinguish one from another then that's not very useful.
 
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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.15 changelog:
Changes/additions/improvements
  • Seekbar video preview now supports video rotation.
  • Manual subtitle search now also works for online streams.
Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a long delay when opening the File menu with certain optical drives.
  • Fixed an issue in the audio stream switcher that could result in a player hang on seek or track change. This happened only when an external audio track was loaded, in combination with the internal audio renderer and madVR.
  • Fixed parsing of subtitle files that contain a duplicate UTF BOM in their file header.
  • A few other small fixes.

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.17 changelog:

Updates:
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.75.1-10-g75744
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Added support for System Media Transport Controls in Windows 8.1/10/11. This displays playback controls for the player when adjusting volume in Windows. You can enable this functionality through: Options > Advanced > UseSMTC
  • Some improvements to SaneAR Audio Renderer: It now automatically falls back to shared mode when exclusive mode is enabled but unsupported. Exclusive mode option no longer needs to be enabled for bitstreaming, instead it is used implicitly when bitstreaming.
  • Generating a thumbnail sheet is now faster. It now seeks to keyframes as much as possible.
  • Added an advanced option to disable automatic pause when locking the screen in Windows.
  • You can now use "off" as a value in the subtitle track preference setting. It may follow language codes that you do prefer to use. In that case it will disable subtitles only if no preceding language code has matched.
  • Some visual improvements to playlist numbering and title editing.
  • Some improvements for subtitle selection and language name display for the rare situation where a language does not have a LCID.
  • Some optimizations to the filter graph builder. This should speed up file loading in some situations.
  • The player now reloads the video file when resumed after hibernate or very long pause (> 30 min). This is done as a workaround for driver bugs. It will remember playback position and track selection.
  • DVB improvement: It now stores the symbol rate for scanned channels.
  • Added support for wildcards in filenames in M3U playlists.
Fixes:
  • Fixed subtitles being early by a few frames with VMR9 renderer.
  • Fixed a subtitle parsing issue for files that contained 4-byte UTF-8 characters (such as emojis). Those are handled properly now.
  • Fixed an issue with drag&drop of a folder onto the playlist window.
  • Several other small fixes

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.18 changelog:
Updates
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.75.1-19-g80347
Changes/additions/improvements
  • The seekbar thumb now follows the mouse pointer when dragging and only jumps to final seek position after the drag ends. Previously it would jump to the actual (keyframe) seek points during the drag. This could give a jumpy experience for files with large keyframe gaps or short durations.
  • Lowered minimum value for seekbar preview size option from 10% to 5% of screen width.
  • Added advanced option to disable/adjust the reload after long pause behavior.
  • Seekbar preview is now always disabled when playing from optical media.
Fixes
  • Fixed issue with parsing subtitles that have wrong line endings (CR only).
  • Fixed issue where an online subtitle file wasn't parsed completely due to a filesize limitation in the code.
  • A few other small fixes and internal optimizations.

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.20​

Changes from 1.9.19 to 1.9.20:​

Updates:
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.76.1
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Rewritten code that deals with file history. It works better with multiple instances now.
  • Remembered file position now resets to 0 when playback has reached 95% of file duration when closing the player. We assume that end credits have been reached in that case.
  • Remembered file position also resets to 0 when pressing stop button. So close player directly or open other file without pressing stop if you wish to resume later.
  • The uninstaller now unregisters file associations
  • The last used QuickOpen and SaveImage paths are now remembered individually
  • Added support for extended locale names in subtitles menu
  • Decimal values are now possible for subtitle font spacing and border width/shadow settings
  • Now supports loading chapter metadata from .xchp file. Use text file (UTF-8 encoding). Each line is a chapter defined as HH:MM:SS,ddd timecode, optionally followed by a space and chapter name.
Fixes:
  • Fixed issue where PGS subtitles could be partially rendered outside of visible area
  • Fixed regression with reading CDText metadata
  • Fixed regression regarding auto-hide of toolbar in case of two monitors with vertical placement
  • Workaround for Windows 11 bug where the options dialog was not rendered properly for RTL languages
  • Workaround for Windows 10/11 bug where subtitle download dialog could become visible when using taskbar window peek
  • Several other small bugs

Overview of features​

A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:
  • Dark interface
    Menu > View > Dark Theme
    When using dark theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
    Options > Advanced
  • Video preview on the seekbar
    Options > Tweaks > Show preview on seek bar
  • Adjust playback speed
    Menu > Play > Playback rate
    The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
    Options > Playback > Speed step
    Adjusting playback speed works best with the internal audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
    Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
  • MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
    Options > Player > History
  • You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
  • You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
  • You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
    Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
    Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
  • A-B repeat
    You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
  • You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
    Menu > View > Pan&Scan
    This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
  • There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
    Options > Player > Keys
    Tip: there is a search box above the table.
  • You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
    Put yt-dlp.exe or youtube-dl.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
    Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
    You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
    Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp/youtube-dl, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
    Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
    This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
  • Play HDR video
    This requires using madVR or MPC Video Renderer.
    After installation these renderers can be selected here:
    Options > Playback > Output
  • Ability to search for and download subtitles, either automatically or manually (press D):
    Options > Subtitles > Misc
  • Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.
 

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.21.2​

Changes from 1.9.20 to 1.9.21.2:​


Updates:
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 22.03
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Added option to keep player controls visiable on current monitor when showing fullscreen video on another monitor
    Options > Advanced > FullscreenSeparateControls
    Options > Playback > Fullscreen > Fullscreen Monitor
  • AB Repeat markers are now saved in file history (when remember position is enabled)
  • Improved positioning of PGS subtitles
  • Setting volume through command line now also unmutes
  • Reverted change in previous version that would reset remembered file position after reaching 95% of duration
Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that could give low resolution subtitle when using fullscreen exclusive mode in MPCVR
  • Fixed issue that could give low resolution subtitle when switching from PGS to a text-based subtitle type
  • Fixed issue with VMR9 renderer where external subtitles would not adjust to playback rate changes
  • A few other minor fixes

Overview of features​

A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:
  • Dark interface
    Menu > View > Dark Theme
    When using dark theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
    Options > Advanced
  • Video preview on the seekbar
    Options > Tweaks > Show preview on seek bar
  • Adjust playback speed
    Menu > Play > Playback rate
    The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
    Options > Playback > Speed step
    Adjusting playback speed works best with the internal audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
    Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
  • MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
    Options > Player > History
  • You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
  • You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
  • You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
    Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
    Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
  • A-B repeat
    You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
  • You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
    Menu > View > Pan&Scan
    This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
  • There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
    Options > Player > Keys
    Tip: there is a search box above the table.
  • You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
    Put yt-dlp.exe or youtube-dl.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
    Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
    You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
    Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp/youtube-dl, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
    Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
    This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
  • Play HDR video
    This requires using madVR or MPC Video Renderer.
    After installation these renderers can be selected here:
    Options > Playback > Output
  • Ability to search for and download subtitles, either automatically or manually (press D):
    Options > Subtitles > Misc
  • Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.
 

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.9.23 changelog:

Updates

  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.76.1-25-g24efe

Changes/additions/improvements
  • Some font related efficiency improvements for rendering the player menu
  • Thumbnail sheet now uses a dark background color if dark theme is enabled

Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with manual rotation with EVR-CP for videos that already had automatic rotation
  • Fixed an issue with parsing background color tags in WebVTT subtitles
  • Fixed a regression with YDL preferred video format setting
  • Several other small fixes


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Changes from 1.9.23 to 1.9.24:

Updates:
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.77-1-gfd3c1
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 22.09
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Re-added support for nested M3U/PLS inside M3U playlist
  • Store device name of selected fullscreen monitor in addition to the display name. This allows selecting the correct monitor in the situation where Windows shuffles display names around.
  • Properly handle NONE as value for YCbCr Matrix subtitle header
  • Added freetype font rendering path as fallback for characters that fail to render with GDI.
  • Support loading subtitles from subfolder "\subs\FILENAME"
Fixes:
  • Fixed some issues with AB repeat
  • Several other small fixes

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Changes from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0:

Updates:

  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.78
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 23.10
  • Updated MPC Audio Renderer
  • Updated all other third party libraries


Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Added OpenSubtitles.com subtitle search provider. The existing OpenSubtitles.org provider is scheduled to stop working at the end of 2023. Note: you need a new login for OpenSubtitles.com
  • Video preview can now also be placed below the seekbar. See: Options > Tweaks
  • The internal subtitle renderer now has an option to use libass for rendering
  • Some improvements related to the advanced option for separate fullscreen
  • Added right-click actions to some of the toolbar buttons:
  • Play = Open File, Stop = Close File, Skip Back = Previous File, Skip Forward = Next File, Frame Step = Frame Step Backwards (seek), Mute = Toggle Next Audio Track
  • Support scanning of ATSC channels
  • Playlist is now docked to the right side by default. You can drag it to bottom/left/top if you prefer those locations. Or even outside player window.
  • Drag&drop/LoadSubtitle/ToggleSubtitle now also work with DirectVobSub and XySubFilter
  • HEVC hardware decoding is now disabled by default (on fresh install or settings reset) for Intel Haswell/Broadwell GPUs. These older GPUs have slow partially accelerated decoding and software decoding may be preferred for stability. You can of course still enable it if desired.

Fixes:
  • A few DPI scaling fixes for problems that occurred when moving between two screens with different DPI
  • Fixed an issue with DVB subtitles not working during live playback
  • Fixed an issue changing subtitle default style through styles dialog
  • Several other small fixes
  • Fixed Pan&Scan movement being wrong for rotated video with MadVR

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Changes from 2.1.0 to 2.1.2:

Changes/additions/improvements

  • Added light version of the modern theme. Modern theme is now enabled by default. (Options > Player > Theme)
  • Added advanced option to use MediaInfo to gather file durations when adding files to playlist
  • Added support for multi-select in subtitle download dialog
  • The "Add containing folder" action for playlist now inserts directly after the selected item
  • Added a settings button on output settings page to open video renderer settings for MPCVR and MadVR.

Fixes
  • Fixed issue with libass and adjusting playback rate
  • Fixed issue where libass did not work for SRT if file did not use UTF8
  • Fixed mimetype related issue that prevented embedded fonts to be loaded for libass with certain files
  • Fixed issue where window position/size was not remembered correctly if window had small size

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.2.0 changelog:

Updates

  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.1
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 24.03

Changes/additions/improvements
  • Now supports decoding H.266/VVC video

Fixes
  • A few bug fixes and small improvements

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.3.4 (Aug 6, 2024)
Updates:
  • Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.5.2275
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Added advanced option to skip file delete confirmation prompt.
  • Durations are now stored in MPCPL playlist files.
  • Added /thumbnails command line parameter to generate a thumbnail sheet. Player automatically closes when done.
  • The main control window now has small size when playing fullscreen on a different monitor.
  • When opening an URL extracted by yt-dlp, the useragent and referrer are now used by LAV Splitter. This should fix/improve playback of streams that require those parameters.
Fixes:
  • A few fixes.
 

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.3.5
Sep 2, 2024
Updates:
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-19-g2bf67
  • Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.6.2282
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • The "Default Style" subtitle option has been renamed to "Override Default Style". Hopefully it should be more clear now what it does. It now also only affects the style named "Default" and a second option has been added to override all embedded styles of a subtitle (SSA/ASS format). The setting has also been reset (default = disabled) because too many dumb people change options that they do not understand and then complain that things do not work as expected. Just to be very clear: this option should remain unchecked if you want subtitles to render correctly and as intended by its creator.
  • Mouse settings have been moved from Keys options page to a new Mouse options page. Mouse related settings have been reset.
  • The modern volume slider now scales along with the toolbar buttons.
Fixes:
  • Several small fixes and improvements.
 

lokamoka820

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.3.6
Oct 5, 2024
Updates:
  • Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-20-g81c56
  • Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.7.2295
Changes/additions/improvements:
  • MPCVR has been updated to support the display API changes of Windows 11 24H2, so HDR state is now detected correctly when the new "Auto Color Management" option of Windows is enabled.
  • Improved support for MPCVR exclusive fullscreen. The player now uses the exclusive mode seekbar (OSD based) in that situation.
Fixes:
  • Several small fixes and improvements.
 

lokamoka820

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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.3.7
Oct 29, 2024
Updates:
  • Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.8.2303
  • Changes/additions/improvements:
  • Improved font scaling for text on thumbnail sheet
  • Manual subtitle style edits now also work with libass
Fixes:
  • Fixed OSD bug in fullscreen that occurred in 2.3.6
  • Several small fixes and improvements.
 
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