Media Player Classic Home Cinema 2.8.1 (MPC-HC)

Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It is a Media Player Classic mod design for homecinema usage and looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional extra features.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema allows you to enhance, decode and accelerate a broad span of movie formats like x.264 with GPU assisted acceleration and image quality enhancing.

The MPC Home Cinema player does not require many system resources than the rest of the video media players to run smoothly. This is a low PC resources windows media player that runs on slower machines with older CPUs.

Modern graphics card offer the possibility to decode partially or completely a video stream using DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), in order to reduce CPU usage dramatically.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema includes an embedded video decoder that uses this technology, to decode x.264, H.264, HEVC and VC-1 with hardly any CPU time required.

Supported Decoding

MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 playback. Media Player Classic is capable of VCD, SVCD and DVD playback, without the need to install any additional software or codecs.

It has built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video and codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3 and DTS audio, and also contains an improved MPEG splitter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. A *.mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text support added. An AAC decoding filter makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in MP4.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema also has H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video formats is available in MPC HC. MPC can also use the QuickTime and the RealPlayer architectures. Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats.

Supported Video, Audio and Image File Formats:

WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, MIDI, MPEG, MPG, MP2, VOB, AC3, DTS, ASX, M3U, PLS, WAX, ASF, WM, WMA, WMV, AVI, CDA, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, D2V, MP4, SWF, MOV, QT, FLV

Additional Media Player Classic Home Cinema Features:

• Play HDR video. This requires using MPC Video Renderer or madVR.
• Option to remove Tearing.
• Better support for Windows 11, including a release for 64 bits platform.
• Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer)
• Supports Subtitles.
• Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed.
• Creation of minidump when Media Player Classic Home Cinema crashes.
• OSD (On Screen Display)
• Shuttle PN31 remote control support
• Support Multi-Monitor configuration
• Pixel shader to convert BT601 – BT701
• YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader
• Language Translations.
• All features from the Guliverkli MPC Project from Gabest.
• Remote control for Android devices.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.8.1 (2026-08-22):

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.83-1-g63d24
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.8.2572
• Added ability to load a secondary subtitle track from the subtitle menu. This supports only external text-based formats (SRT) and excludes formats that may contain explicit positioning (SSA/PGS/VobSub). The secondary subtitle is rendered at the top of the window. There are some known limitations. For example adjustments such as delay will apply to both tracks. Secondary is also not included in screenshots. Do NOT open issues/requests about this!
• Added ability to auto-copy all rendered subtitle text to the clipboard in real-time. Toggling this on/off can be assigned to a hotkey or one of the custom toolbar buttons.
• New “remote” page in web interface, providing a modern interface for remote control of MPC-HC from any phone (or web browser) in your local network.
• Expanded the API for remote control through window messages from a master process. See MpcApi.h header file.
• A few bug fixes in web interface.
• A few other fixes and small improvements.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.8.0 (2026-08-10):

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82-5-g77c25
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.7.2560
• Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
• Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
• It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
• When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
• Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
• Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
• There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
• Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
• Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
• When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
• Added “sort by date” option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
• Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
• Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
• Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
• Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
• Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.
• Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
• Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
• Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
• Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
• Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as “Load subtitles”.
• A few other fixes and small improvements.

Homepage – https://mpc-hc.org

Supported Operating Systems:  Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).

Size: 20.3 MB

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