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 enhancement.
The MPC Home Cinema player does not require more system resources than the other video media players to run smoothly.
This is a low PC resource windows media player that runs on slower machines with older CPUs.
Modern graphics cards offer the possibility to decode partially or completely a video stream using DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), 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 were 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 are 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
- Option to remove Tearing.
- Better support for Windows 10, 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.
Updates:
- Updated LAV Filters to version 0.76-2-g642bf
Changes/additions/improvements:
- Windows Vista is no longer supported.
- Added hotkeys to adjust the font scale of text-based subtitles. Defaults are set to Ctrl+Add/Subtract
- Added hotkeys to move subtitles vertically. Defaults are set to Ctrl+Shift+Add/Subtract
- Added hotkeys to zoom in/out the player window in 32px increments. Unset by default.
- Added BT.2020 support to the RGB colour correction of subtitles. This is used if signalled by the subtitle script or video renderer.
- Added an advanced option not to automatically open the recording panel when opening a capture device.
- The internal splitter now supports a few more audio and video formats.
- Increased web interface video preview update frequency
Fixes:
- Fixed issue with frame stepping that could give lagging behaviour with madvr.
- Fixed subtitle issue where opaque border style could be drawn even when both border and shadow were zero.
- Fixed subtitle issue with handling the no-break space character.
- Fixed the issue with saving the playlist if it contained certain Unicode characters
- A few other small fixes and internal optimizations