Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Version Updates

The entire mpc-hc project is dead, deader than dead, including the website.
and yes plenty of reasons to update to the newer version, Updated LAV Filters, Bug fixes & new options are just few of them.
The fact that K-Lite Codec Pack includes the latest v1.8.8 instead the old one should give you a few hints which one is "not quite perfect"

 

You'll have to ask clsid.

 

If you know will you PM me a contact email for clsid? Then I will do so. Thank you.

 

The old site has no reason to post updates on the alternative branches (of which there are many).
A link to the clsid build would be nice tho.

 

I didn't know there are many other offshoots.

 

MPC-HC v1.9.0 (December 29, 2019)
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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.0 (lightweight media player) Released (January 15, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.1 (January 21, 2020)
Announcement
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.1

Changes from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1:
Changes/additions/improvements:

• ICC color profile is now also applied on coverart
• Added LumaSharpen and Sepia shaders
• Added a shortcut for toggling default subtitle style (see Options > Player > Keys)
• Improved the visual appearance of the volume control in dark theme
• Improved the visual appearance of the transition to full screen (on Windows 8+)

Fixes:

• Fixed slow loading of huge playlist (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed autoplay issue with madVR on secondary screen (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed large text in option window due to text scaling of Windows 10 (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed issue where subtitles could be rendered at a too low resolution after video resize (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed a small memory leak with PNG coverart
• Fixed rendering of certain SSA subs that use opaque boxes as background for translated texts
• youtube-dl processing is now skipped when an URL points directly to a media file

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.1 (lightweight media player) Released (February 10, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.2 (March 23, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.2

Changes from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2:
Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1-34-g1ceac

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added A-B Repeat functionality. You can set the timeline markers with [ and ] keys.
• Added a 25% zoom shortcut and menu entry
• Added support for reading title information (EXTM3U) from m3u playlist files.
• Added mousewheel tilt left/right support for shortcut settings (Options > Player > Keys)
• Added basic support for external WebVTT subtitles (.vtt). Only simple text formatting is supported. Advanced tags are ignored.
• Significantly improved performance of adding (many) files to the playlist.
• Changed logic of "Auto Fit (larger only)". Previously it would resize if the video was too large to fit on the screen. Now it always resizes when the video is larger then the specified auto fit factor percentage of the screen size.

Fixes:

• Fixed a few small GUI regressions related to dark theme
• Fixed a few rare crashes
• Fixed coverart not always loading for files with their own external coverart image file
• Improved compatibility of internal audio renderer with DTV playback
• When player is minimized it now stays minimized when adding files to playlist from Explorer

Notes:

• You can help to improve/complete the translations here: transifex.com/mpchc/mpchc

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.2 (lightweight media player) Released (March 23, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.3 (May 23, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.3

Changes from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3:
Updates:

• Updated MediaInfo DLL to v20.03

Changes/additions/improvements:

• When changing the video playback rate, external subtitles will now appear at correct time with matching rate. With embedded subtitles that already worked before.
• Improved responsiveness in seeking when dragging seekbar thumb
• Skip to next/previous file now also works after closing a file or when current file fails to play
• Screenshots are now taken at display aspect ratio
• Added option to include subtitles in screenshots
• Added workaround for AMD driver bug to make VP9 hardware acceleration work on compatible AMD GPUs
• Added support for AAC-ADTS audio format in DVB streams

Fixes:

• Fixed regression that broke parsing of .pls playlist files
• Fixed regression with auto-zoom dropdown box value
• Fixed regression with RAR source filter on archives with a single file inside
• Fixed bug that caused artist and title text to be displayed incorrectly on audio CDs
• Fixed a few other small bugs

Notes:

• Subtitle search/download using OpenSubtitles now requires a login. You can create a free account on opensubtitles.org website. After that, you can configure it here: MPC-HC options > Subtitles > Misc > Right-click on OpenSubtitles > Setup

 

MPC-HC v1.9.4 (June 5, 2020)
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.4

Changes from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4:
Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added support for shaders, rotation, and statistics overlay for MPC Video Renderer
• Round down displayed time instead of rounding to nearest second
• Some changes to the player menu so that certain items are only enabled when relevant
• Enabled use of DrDump crash reporter

Fixes:

• Fixed regression in previous version that could break jump to next/previous file
• Fixed handling of 8-bit PCM in internal audio renderer

 

Pretty decent player for my Windows 8.1 uses. Prefer this one over it's brother and have stayed with it thru several versions.

Thanks @mood

 

Same over here, I've tried VLC and MPC-BE, but MPC-HC stays the best.

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.4 (lightweight media player) Released (June 8, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.5 Released (June 17, 2020)
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May be high time this thread's title was changed

 

Yeah I'd just call it MPC-HC updates

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.5 (lightweight media player) Released (June 20, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.6 Released (June 25, 2020)
Announcement
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.6

Changes from 1.9.5 to 1.9.6:
Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to 0.74.1-60-g9842e

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Assigned Delete as a default key binding for "Move to recycle bin" action
• Added advanced option to configure how often the time in the status bar is updated. Changed default from 40 to 100ms.

Fixes:

• Fixed stability issue when seeking using a remote control app
• Improved loading speed of webvtt subtitle files
• Fixed issue with certain DVD menu transitions when using internal audio renderer
• A few other small fixes

 

thank you mood..this is the best!!

 

Oh heck Yay! This is a awesome player! Thank You @mood for another new update notice

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.6 (lightweight media player) Released (June 27, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

MPC-HC v1.9.7 Released (August 1, 2020)
Announcement
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.7

Changes from 1.9.6 to 1.9.7:
Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to 0.74.1-64-g5162c

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Improved drag&drop to better handle subtitle files

Fixes:

• Fixed seeking in WebM files that only have audio cue points and no video cue points
• Fixed wrong parsing of timestamps in certain WebVTT subtitle files
• Several other small (crash) fixes