Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional 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 WMP Classic 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. MPC-HC includes an embedded video decoder that uses this technology, to decode x.264, H.264 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.
MPC 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 Player Features
- Option to remove Tearing.
- Better support for Windows Vista, 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 MPC HC 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.
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema supports the following operating systems:
- Windows XP SP3 32bit/64bit
- Windows Vista 32bit/64bit
- Windows 7 32bit/64bit
Change Log:
New :
- Use ffmpeg for RealVideo/RealAudio decoding
- Support for SIPR and VP30/31
- Support WMV3 DXVA
- Support for ALAC
- MatroskaSplitter: support for QDesign Music, Sorenson and Cinepak video
- Ticket #552, Add the ability to check if a newer stable version is available using Help --> Check for updates
- Ticket #1668, A keyboard shortcut can now be assigned to toggle custom channel mapping on/off
- Ticket #1738, Support for decoding FLV SWF ADPCM
- Ticket #2065, CMD_GETCURRENTPOSITION command gives the position with an accuracy of 1 ms (only for media files, not for DVD-Video)
- Ticket #2087, Add some OSD messages when resetting the playback rate and changing the zoom level
- Ticket #2111, A keyboard shortcut can now be assigned to toggle normalization and regain volume on/off
Changed :
Updated:
Updated Polish, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Slovak, French and Armenian translationslibpng to v1.5.10
Little CMS to v2.3+ (git 839a5b0 23/03/2012)
ffmpeg
MediaInfoLib to v0.7.54
ZenLib to v0.4.25
VirtualDub to v1.10.2-test5
Ticket #1652/#2070, UI improvements:
"Tearing Test" and "Display stats" menu entries are now disabled if no video is loaded (which means in audio only mode too)
The "Organize Favorites" menu entry is disabled if no favorites exist
The filename is not highlighted anymore when opening the properties dialog
Double-clicking on the file location from the clip properties will now open the containing folder and select the current file
The information fields in the properties dialog are now correctly aligned with their labels
Ticket #2098, Improve the behavior of the context menu in the internal filters page: menu items are now disabled when it makes sense to do so
Ticket #2108, Adjust drop-down list width for long shaders name
New icons for the Windows 7 taskbar controls
Fixed :
- Long opening of MKV files after using the "mkvclean" utility
- Incorrect detection of interlaced flag on some MPEG2 stream with DXVA decoder, fix choppy playback with incorrect frame rate
- MPASplitter can't split some .MP3 files
- MPCVideoDec switched to software decoding mode, even if only the DXVA decoder was selected, but wasn't supported
- MPEGSplitter can't load MPEG-TS files with corrupted packet header (incorrect Adaptation Field)
- Freeze occurs when madVR leaves exclusive mode
- MPCVideoDec bad playback with VC1 files with pulldown in MPEG-TS
- Ticket #90/#971/#1682, MP4Splitter - Fixed hanged image/slow response after seeking
- Ticket #413/#2096, Fixed register command line switches for audio and video files
- Ticket #1007, FLVSplitter: increased the depth of the search for audio and video tags
- Ticket #1815, Only try to expend command line argument into full path name when we are sure the argument is supposed to be a path name
- Ticket #1987, MP4Splitter: Fix a deadloop which happened sometimes at the end of a file
- Ticket #2007, Prevent a memory leak in FLACSource
- Ticket #2013, Bug when saving the ASS/SSA subtitle, the header has incorrect values
- Ticket #2014, Embedded subtitle overrides "Prefer external"
- Ticket #2047, Apply button under "EVR Sync Settings" can't be clicked
- Ticket #2057, Don't crash with some incomplete .AVI files
- Ticket #2057, MatroskaSplitter does not use properly cropping parameters
- Ticket #2064, CMD_SETPOSITION command does not start playback when paused
- Ticket #2070, Use MPC-HC's internal formats list when trying to get the format description from the file extension
- Ticket #2080, Add fallback fonts for the MediaInfo tab in case Lucida Console isn't available
- Ticket #2088, Fix a crash when double-clicking in the Organize Favorites dialog when the favorites list was empty
- Ticket #2093, Fixed time display when subresync bar is enabled
- Ticket #2116, Fix the "Reset" button in Options/Subtitles/Misc
- Ticket #2128, The "Apply" button is now clickable after modifying the web server root directory, the fullscreen modes list, the external filters list and the time tooltip option
- Numerous other bugfixes and improvements
