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Media Player Classic Home Cinema |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema(MPC-HC) is a free audio and video player for Windows. The new Media Player Classic Home Cinema has Anti tearing option, Subtitle synchronisation, Support Vista 64bits and more, Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support (see specific section for details), Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform, Support for EVR renderer, Bugs and vulnerability fixes. Require latest DirectX Runtime
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Latest version: 1.6.2.4902 (May 26, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download portable version (direct link) Supported operating systems: Windows
More information and other downloads: Download more beta versions here (russian site). Require latest DirectX Runtime If you receive an error that no d3dx9.dll found then install the DirectX Runtime or change the output under View->Options->Playback->Output and change to System Default(EVR Custom is preferred though). Sections/Browse similar tools: Media Center/HTPC/PS3/360, Video Players |
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User options: Email me when it has been updated Report this tool (dead link/new version) Version history:
1.6.2 - 26 May 2012 View full changelog ========================= + MatroskaSplitter: Support for QT video formats in Matroska v1 and MPEG-1 + Added .tak extension * Changed default settings - Global media keys are now activated by default - Media volume keys will now change the system's volume when MPC-HC is the foreground application + Added a new Zoom option "Auto Fit (large only)" + Ticket #1792, Show an OSD message and a status message when a favorite is created via the keyboard shortcut + Ticket #1866, Added suppport for MLP audio in MpaDecFilter and DTSAC3Source + Ticket #2134, Added an auto-update feature to periodically check for new update. This feature can be enabled on first launch or via the Miscellaneous options page. The delay between the checks is also customizable. + Ticket #2193, Add PNG support for custom toolbars + Added Basque translation + Include unrar.dll in the installer; rar'ed subtitles should be supported out of the box * Ticket #734, A unicode encoding will now be used for the ini file. Old ASCII ini files will be automatically converted to unicode. Favorites with unicode filenames are now correctly handled when using an ini file * Ticket #1693, [VSFilter] Remove the feature preventing the screensaver from running when VSFilter is active since that's a job for players not for filters * Ticket #1733/#2029, Include subfolders when opening a folder using the command line or via the explorer context menu * Ticket #2144,2277, Improve the subtitles downloader dialog: - the dialog's size and position are now saved - the columns' sizes are saved - the subtitle list is now fetched from a worker thread (this way the player won't lock anymore when the dialog is being opened) - reduced flicker - tooltips will now be shown for clipped text * Ticket #2157, Show the [DXVA] indicator even when playback is paused * Ticket #2163, Improve the "Save As" dialog: the dialog is updated more regularly and the units for the sizes and the speed are now automatically adapted to the values * Ticket #2165, Improve the "Organize Favorites" dialog: - the favorites can now be deleted using the delete key or the backspace key - the buttons are disabled when they cannot be used - pressing the "Enter" key after selecting a favorite will now start playback - multiple selection is now allowed so that more than one favorite can be deleted or moved at the same time - Ctrl + A will select all items and Ctrl + I inverts the selection. - the size and position of the dialog are saved * Ticket #2216, Show seekbar in compact mode instead of the toolbar since all toolbar functions can be accessed easily with keyboard shortcuts * Ticket #2218, Improve the Go To dialog: - use a masked edit for entering the timecode (hh:mm:ss.ms or mm:ss.ms depending on the file duration) - show an error message when the entered timecode is greater than the file duration * Ticket #2234, Changed some UI fonts according to the OS; more modern fonts will be used on Vista and later * Reduced the maximum number of packets in the Queue, except for AVI. This will reduce the amount of memory consumed by the player * Improved the "Open directory" dialog: - when using XP the checkbox will now use only one line when possible and the overall dialog will look better - on Vista and later the dialog will use the new user interface * Use the new user interface for all open folder dialogs on Windows Vista and later * Avoid using negative option in the Tweaks page: change "Don't use 'search in folder' on commands 'Skip back/forward' when only one item in playlist" into "Open next/previous file in folder on 'Skip back/forward' when there is only one item in playlist" * The minidump feature is now enabled by default. The crash dialog has been updated to redirect the users to the bug tracker. The minidump feature can be turned off completely by using the /nominidump switch * Updated FFmpeg (git 72261fa) * Updated MediaInfoLib to v0.7.57 * Updated ZenLib to v0.4.26 * Updated SoundTouch to v1.7.0pre r142 * Updated VirtualDub to v1.10.2-test9 * Updated zlib to v1.2.7 * Updated Detours to v3.0 build 316 * Updated Little CMS to v2.4 (git 9e246ec 23/05/2012) * Updated French, Turkish, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, German, Polish and Portuguese (Brazil) translations * Removed GTSdll support since it's dead * Removed the option to disable XP theming since it's of no use for any OS >= Windows XP * Removed the option "Use the WM ASF Reader for Windows Media files" since it has no effect on any "modern" OS (>= Windows XP) * Removed SSF support ! Broken playback and picture on H.264 and MPEG-2 interlaced with DXVA on intergrated Intel adapter ! The settings location is now changed only when applying the changes in the options dialog instead of immediately after changing the state of the checkbox ! Improve/Fix the "Open" dialog: - the "OK" button will be disabled until a file has been selected (this avoids an error when clicking on "OK" while no file was selected) - when the selected file cannot be dubbed (for example when opening an rtsp stream) the wrong label was grayed out ! MatroskaSplitter: Better detection of fps for some webm files ! MPCVideoDec: Crash with some RV30/40 files when there are no input data from splitter ! MPCVideoDec: H.264 DXVA decoder skipped broken frames on interlaced material ! MpegSplitter: Removed crackling from LPCM tracks when switching and seeking ! MpegSplitter: Fix incorrect detection of MPEG Audio stream as AAC ! AviSplitter: Fix looping not working on short animations ! WebServer: Fix a few errors and typos ! MPCVideoDec: Fix MPEG-2 DXVA for some files ! Fix the remember file/DVD position feature: the positions' cache was not cleared when disabling the feature ! The Windows 7 taskbar was sometimes not correctly updated (for example when opening another video without closing the previous one). The preview was incorrectly cropped when the menu was hidden. ! Ticket #869, The playlist visibility state was incorrectly restored when MPC-HC was quited in fullscreen mode while the option "Hide on fullscreen" was enabled ! Ticket #1182, Unable to playback MPEG-2 in AVI ! Ticket #1290, Fix the reversed behavior of the playlist option "Hide on fullscreen" when the "Launch files in fullscreen" option is enabled ! Ticket #1589, Crash with "Null (uncompressed)" ! Ticket #1706, CSS 2.1 and HTML 4.01 Validation for the WebServer files ! Ticket #1946, Skipping bug with EVR custom output and .webm with vsync on ! Ticket #2090, Better handling of font fallback in the MediaInfo dialog so that the font size is now correctly adapted to the font used ! Ticket #2126, Fix DVBSub: the subtitles' color was incorrect ! Ticket #2133, Javascript error in "player.html" ! Ticket #2137, Disable animation when pressing the "Boss" key ! Ticket #2155, Change the background color of the options pages caption so that it is readable with all Windows themes ! Ticket #2156, MPCVideoDec: Incorrect number of frames at the end of playback with software decoding ! Ticket #2161, Prevent the "Open" dialog from being opened multiple times (for example when double clicking on the tray icon) ! Ticket #2172, MP4Splitter: skip video tracks with motionless frames ! Ticket #2274, MPCVideoDec: the configured threads count was ignored when the decoder had to fallback in software mode because of a DXVA incompatible file, only one thread was used in this case ! Ticket #2304, MpaDecFilter: PCM 32-bit output gives cracking sound ! Ticket #2313, Fix crash related to the case sensitivity when using play next/previous file in folder ! Numerous other bugfixes and improvements
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MPC and MPC-HC are my favourite media players. Using them about 6 years i think! But this player may not be good for newbies, as sometimes some settings should be changed for proper playback! (Yes i use other players too... at home MPC-HC.) (At work/college use/used VLC, KMP, GOM)
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First comment I am using 1.6.1.4235 portable. So far this player plays everything that I have tried even webm and M2TS files.. Nothing fancy about the player.. But it just works !! But I have been only using for less than a month so I might change mind later. I have several video players on my machine. Right now my two favorite players are COWON Media Center Basic and Media Player Classic Home Cinema.. So if don't need anything fancy I recommend either one of these 2 players.. Have A Nice Day - Gary
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Just wanna congratulate the work force behind the player wich is fully customizable best player out there thanks!!!
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I had an old panasonic digital cam which creates .mov quicktime files and uses a certain mjpeg format for its video. I've been using MPC-HC for years but it could never open read the video, only the audio. Usually I will load up Windows Media Player or use AVIDemux to change the container format to AVI then it'll work. And everytime MPC-HC comes out with a beta, I'll scan the changelog for any changes that involves .mov or mjpeg so that I could play the video natively only to be disappointed over the years until now. With latest beta version, I could play the .mov files natively! Probably thanks to the upgrade in libAV.
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I have had a lot of issues with MPC-HC in the past...especially with high bitrate mkv's. Yesterday I decided to try this out with a retail Blu Ray title not expecting any better results and low and behold...MPC-HC plays Blu Ray's without any issues. It doesn't show the menu but it scans the disc and finds the main movie title and voila!!!!...Blu Ray function works fine. Didn't have any issues. I didn't even set up the filters or codec packs. I just installed the latest ffdshow and LAV Filters and nothing else...Blu Ray works fine right out of the box for me. Yippie!!!!! My guess is that it's using ffdshow but I'm not sure...don't care either...all I know is that it works fine. Give this one or PotPlayer a go for Blu Ray playback...both will work without having to pay a dime for Blu Ray software.
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I've found an issue. On playback of an webM video file the video freeze after 1 to 2minutes. Audio continues.
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Regression Alert! Use caution. It's a bit sad to see this project run into the ditch. Version 1.5.3.3734 works.
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Unfortunately MPC-HC doesn't work with some standard streaming feeds: http://www.npr.org/streams/mp3/nprlive24.pls http://voxsc1.somafm.com:2026/listen.pls http://somafm.com/missioncontrol64.pls https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/1889 https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/432 https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/1830
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Taking a brake maybe, but you can get updates here too: http://xhmikosr.1f0.de/
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So this has stopped being updated, or they just take a month off every now and again??
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Still the best free player for video files
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i am not entering into the argument of who is fool or not? i hv use and liked MPC-HC in the past....past...past..... MPC-HC based on MPlayer and Mencoder libraries which inturn ffmpeg is back-boned. 1) How come professional programmers encodes the video clip interlaced and sets the flag progressive? 2) How come professional programmer(s) do not stick to or follow the standard practice for ac-3 encoding and sets the audio stream id 11111111_111111..... instead of 189 (0xBD) or 128 (0x80), due to which stream fails to be decoded. i leave answers to the so called professional programmers.
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Totally agree with the two last comments, I use MPC and MPC-HC since many years too and won't change for another player. MPC-HC which has its built-in filters can compete or even beat VLC, PowerDVD, etc.. In addition it is a light-weight soft and with ffdshow filter : perfect team ! Just put 9 overall score because it changes sometimes my custom icons and I had to create a *reg file to get my icons back.
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scorpinok is a foul-mouthed idiot. I've used dozens of players over the years including VLC, GOM, WMP, Splashlite, PowerDVD etc. and I pretty much use MPCHC exclusively now. Plays all my DVDs & Blurays including AVCHD bluray backups, flawlessly. Also, they continually update the player. Right now this is the best free player and is better than most of the payfer players.
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scorpinok has no idea what he's talking about and apparently doesn't know how to speak Englush clearly. MPC-HC has been driven thus far by a competent and responsible team of developers; only people who know how to familiarize themselves with a program before writing a half-conceived rant will get anything out of MPC-HC. It requires DirectX for hardware acceleration, and if it uses all your CPU, you have a garbage PC. MPC-HC can't fix a messed-up Directahow environment created by previously installed codec packs or broken filters, which are almost certainly present on the PC of the whiner immediately below.
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Past few releases takes too long (not instantly) to load video because of MPC-HC tries to access DR0 and access memory as compared to VLC or other mplayer derivatives like SMPlayer,MPUI-HCB and so on...
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This is a revision of an earlier comment. Tried to load a .sub file with MPCHC. It wouldn't do it. Life's too short. Downloaded a couple of other freeware players. KMPlayer is junky ... never trust freeware that's prettified too much. Interface stinks too. VLC works fine. Plus the interface is better. It's too easy to hit the wrong button in MPC.
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Media Player Classic HomeCinema - BE Mod could also be announced I guess...
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This new version is much, much better. The (pretty recent) one I was using before certainly has the functionality and wide format support that WMP lacks, but I didn't use it unless necessary because it was a bit clunky. I don't have much patience for clunky software, free or not. This one does very much the same but it works seamlessly. It's now my default player.
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Long time listener first time caller he he. Just wanted to add my experience to the mix.Im an A+ certified Tech and I was stumped. This shows there is always new stuff to learn. Firstly my system specs are well within acceptable limits to play video. Infact I’ve been doing it for a few years. But lately a problem reared its ugly head. Every few minutes the video would stutter or judder if you will. No matter what I DID nothing changed. I researched and researched. Finally It seemed that it was the frame rate of the new codecs being used for encoding that where the problem. My lcd tv was not syncing up. And it was by accident I came across this info. MPCHC to the rescue. It is able through tech voodoo to make the frame rate of the video source sync to my lcd !!!!. Outstanding. I was a devoted mplayer for windows fan but I have switched. I have been using MPCHC for a while now smooth playback on all video sources. Before I became an MPC convert I tried other players vlc etc to fix the problem and of course all the system updates upgrades diagnostics blah blah no joy. Now I am a true believer. Happy video watching.
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If you have more than 5000 video files, you DEFINITELY need this player! My take is if you have less than 1000 video files, VLC and the built in WMP will do, if you have more than 2000 video files, you'll also need SMPlayer and if you have have more than 5000 video files, you definitely need MPC HC! MPC HC is the mother of all players, it will play non properly indexed, no indexed, no metas files (especially incomplete LIVE streamed FLV files) and files other player couldn't even open...BUT on the other side of this powerful player, there is a dark side, this is the ONLY player I know of that can bring down Windows (blue screens). I have VLC and SMPlayer as my default players and MPC HC as standby cause sometimes you need to play the same video file in different players just to test! One bug about MPC HC with WMV files is that if you drag and enlarge the WMV video file and then use the slider to seek/fast forward/backward, the screen would automatically return to it's original size! (this is happening with MPC HC x64 in Windows 7 x64).
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The easiest, lightest, most reliable and altogether finest piece of playback software you can find! Plays practically everything you throw at it and opens lightning fast! On slow systems as well! I rate it above VLC, which is also quite good, but lacks a number of features. A very small drawback perhaps in MPC-HC is the cursor staying visible during playback, if it is not in full-screen mode. I imagine some people like that, but I would love an option to change that behaviour. But not important... Thumbs up! Keep up the good work and thanks so much for this free app!!
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one of the greatest free video player out there.
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Is the nvidia geforce 8800GT *not* supported by mpc-hc for gpu acceleration? but the 8800GT is dxva2 compliant... dx10 comes bundled with vista. have I to install dx9 too for mpc only? can dx9 and 10 life happy on the same OS? thanks a lot!
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This is a fantastic media player that is light on system resources and can handle most media formats. You can also use ffdshow with it if there are a few formats that you cannot play with MPC-HC's built-in codecs. There is one thing that sort of puts me off this player and that is when adding multiple audio/video files using the "Play All" option under "Music Tasks" on Windows XP, often MPC-HC will start opening the files and drop/forget some of the files, leaving only a couple left on the playlist e.g open 20 mp3's, forgets the first 15 and only plays the last 5??? Even Windows Media Player DOES NOT do this, the media populates the playlist almost instantly. This problem DOESN'T occur if I select a folder containing media, right-click and select "Add to MPC-HC Playlist". Using this method the playlist is populated instantly and the first file is played, which is what I would like to see happen when clicking "Play All" under "Music Tasks" on Windows XP, because I am so used to opening media in this way. I set MPC-HC to be the default player for all media formats, I would really love it if MPC could alter the registry in some way so that the "Play all" music task defaults to "Add to MPC-HC Playlist" for all media in that particular folder, hence loading ALL media fast without dropping/forgetting files. Hope you take my suggestion into consideration. Thankyou for continuing to develop a superb media player.
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