Media Player Classic Home Cinema 2.3.3 (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 2.3.3 (2024-07-18):

• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.5.2268
• The modern theme volume slider now shows % value
• The options to show audio and video format details in statusbar are now enabled by default
• The file delete function now shows a confirmation prompt on Windows 10/11, because Windows may not show one by itself anymore like it did in the past.
• A few small fixes.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.3.2 (2024-07-01):

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-18-ga7212
• Updated MediaInfo to version 24.06
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.4.2263
• The video is now paused/unpaused automatically when dragging the seekbar. Can be turned of in advanced settings for old behavior.
• Now writes MultiSelectModel value in file association ProgIDs. This allows opening a selection of up to 100 files, instead of Windows default limit of 15.
• A few small fixes.

Changes in MPC Home Cinema 2.3.1 (2024-06-22):

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-14-g49d8b

Changes/ additions/ improvements:

• When closing filter graph takes too long, for example due to a deadlock situation in a filter, a prompt is now shown to ask you if you want to terminate the player process or wait longer.

Fixes:

• A non-responding player instance will now no longer block opening a new instance (when re-use same instance option is enabled).
• Fixed issue where /fullscreen command line parameter did not work in combination with FullScreenSeparateControls option.
• Fixed issue that caused DVB subs to be unavailable.
• A few other small 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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