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Media Player Classic Home Cinema 1.6.7

Developer: Media Player Classic
Last updated: April 26, 2013
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (all)
File Size: 7.1 MB
Downloads: 6,468
∟ Last week: 18
User Rating:    (13 votes)
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Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features.

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. The player supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. Most important thing is that we're completely free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.

It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. Media Player Classic was created and is currently maintained by a programmer named "Gabest". This is a mod of Media Player Classic design for home cinema usage.

Watch movies on any SSE CPU, even on your old computer back from '99. With its wide array of options, MPC-HC can be customized to fit almost any needs. Among other things we added custom toolbars. MPC-HC can also be used as DVB player.

What's New:

  • New:
    • MPCVideoDec: Add support for 4K for Intel HD Graphics 4000
    • AVI Splitter: Add a property page so that the support for non interleaved files can be turned on/off. Support for such files is now enabled by default. The old AVI Chunk Viewer dialog has been removed.
    • Added chapter indicators to the seekbar and the chapter name is now displayed in the time tooltip.
    • Added keys for changing volume by increments of 1
  • Changed:
    • Remove .dat extension from the icon library and the formats (you can still associate it in the “Others” formats)
    • Re-enable the embedded resources viewer in the properties dialog and improve its “open in browser” function (when double clicking on a resource)
    • Store the path to MPC-HC’s executable in HKEYCURRENTUSER for external use. External applications that depend on that path should get it from there rather than HKEYLOCALMACHINE. The old key in HKEYLOCALMACHINE will be removed in the next version
    • Changed default maximum subtitle resolution to “Desktop”
  • Updated:
    • Updated FFmpeg (n0.8-14000-g015b805)
    • Updated Little CMS to v2.4 (git 728139a)
    • Updated SoundTouch to v1.7.0
    • Updated MediaInfoLib to v0.7.60 r5048
    • Updated ZenLib to v0.4.28 r403
    • Updated VirtualDub to v1.10.3-test6
    • Basque, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Slovak translations
  • Fixed:
    • The hand cursor wasn’t shown in the web links in Keys and WebServer options page
    • Web interface: Fix the “Deploy” feature
    • Subtitles didn’t show in some cases when using the internal subtitles renderer
    • Improve DVB subtitles handling:
      • Fix missing subtitles
      • Ticket #2589, Fix wrongly colored subtitles
    • Ticket #48, #515, #2533, Improve PGS subtitles (BluRay) parsing:
      • Fix missing subtitles
      • Fix wrong display duration
    • Ticket #102, Fix playback of VideoCD as disk
    • Ticket #790, #1511, #2269, #2612, VSFilter: Fix a bug causing the subtitles not to show when using YUY2 color space
    • Ticket #2219, #2610, MPEG Splitter/AAC Decoder: Add basic support from AAC LATM tracks
    • Ticket #2267, WebUI: added support for ‘#’, ‘%’, ‘+’ and other characters in file names
    • Ticket #2452, Fix color controls in certain situations
    • Ticket #2455, #2484, #2614, WebServer: Better Unicode support
    • Ticket #2540, Fix handling of big API messages
    • Ticket #2547, The master window handle was erroneously reset when starting a file from the explorer.
    • Ticket #2599, Fix “Snap to desktop edges” option for multi-monitor setup
    • Ticket #2606, MPEG Splitter: Don’t output the fake “No subtitle” track when the file contains no subtitles

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