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

Guys, I have always wondered about this, but I feel like when listening to music on YouTube for example, it sounds a bit better in Vivaldi than when I use MPC. Is there anything I can do, to improve sound quality in MPC? It seems like I notice this difference even more on cheap speakers, see link.

https://tweakers.net/pricewatch/412696/logitech-z150-wit/specificaties/

 

MPC-HC 1.9.17 Released (November 9, 2021)
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.17

Changes from 1.9.16 to 1.9.17:
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

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) 1.9.19 Released (January 30, 2022)
Announcement
Download (Github)

Spoiler: Changes v1.9.19

Changes from 1.9.18 to 1.9.19:
Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.76-2-g642bf

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Windows Vista is no longer supported.
• Added hotkeys to adjust font scale of text based subtitles. Defaults are set to: Ctrl+Add/Substract
• Added hotkeys to move subtitles vertically. Defaults are set to: Ctrl+Shift+Add/Substract
• Added hotkeys to zoom in/out the player window in 32px increments. Unset by default.
• Added BT.2020 support to the RGB color correction of subtitles. This is used if signaled by the subtitle script or video renderer.
• Added advanced option to not open the recording panel automatically when opening a capture device.
• The internal splitter now supports a few more audio and video formats.
• Increased web interface video preview update frequency

Fixes:

• Fixed issue with framestepping that could give lagging behavior with madvr.
• Fixed subtitle issue where opaque border style could be draw even when both border and shadow were zero.
• Fixed subtitle issue with handling of no-break space character.
• Fixed issue with saving the playlist if it contained certain Unicode characters
• A few other small fixes and internal optimizations

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.9.19 (lightweight media player) Released (January 31, 2022) (PortableApps.com)

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) 1.9.20 Released (March 17, 2022)
Download (Github)

Spoiler: Changes v1.9.20

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

 

thanks, @mood . mpc-be hasn't been updated for months. i might give this one another shot.

 

Yes it is updated constantly right here:

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

 

thanks, snow.

 

Getting caught up a few versions, thanks fellows for the heads up with this.

 

Excuse me I have not been following MPC-HC since version 1.7.13.x64. When the original developers stopped developing MPC-HC.

Is it now again being developed by the original developers? Because both my old version & the new version list the MPC-HC Team as developers. I didn't think that was the case anymore.

 

Really good and useful PC player. My fav even over VLC and everyone remembers how stellar VLC is.

 

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) 1.9.23 Released (August 26, 2022)
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Spoiler: Changes v1.9.23

Changes from 1.9.21.2 to 1.9.22:
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

 

This player is a gift in the same vein as VLC for many of us. Thanks for keeping it's development going

 

I wish the Linux version worked.

 

Wouldn't that be the cream? Really surprised kind of that it's not. MPC-HC is a very well made Video Player nearly unequaled.

 

I don't know who develops it now. The Ubuntu version just won't run. Maybe one day.

 

Ah, I didn't know there was a Linux version. I see it's a snap version.
The snap details say:
"This is a snap of Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source (OSS) video and audio player for Windows wrapped in Wine." and: "This snap is a work in progress and WILL contain bugs".

There's also a MPC-BE snap version, with similar details: "wrapped in Wine", "WILL contain bugs".

Having MPC-HC/BE for Linux would be nice, but luckily VLC media player is OK for most media, and Kodi for Disney/Pixar DVD (which don't play correctly with most other players than Kodi, on Linux).