Media Player Classic Home Cinema 2.3.6 (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 2.3.6 (2024-10-05):

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-20-g81c56
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.7.2295
• 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.
• Several small fixes and improvements.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.3.5 (2024-09-02):

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.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.3.4 (2024-08-06):

• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.5.2275
• 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.
• A few fixes.

Homepage – https://mpc-hc.org

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

Size: 19.5 MB

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