Media Player Classic Home Cinema

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Description

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a sober but reliable media player. It sports the classic look of the old Windows Media Player version 6.4 but has modern, advanced features.

With no need to install any additional software, Media Player Classic Home Cinema will play MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and it also has VCD, SVCD and DVD support.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema has built-in support for the following:

• MPEG-2 video
• LPCM, MP2, AC3and DTS audio
• .mp4and MPEG-4 Timed Text support
• AAC decoding filter for AAC playback in MP4
• H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support
• DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video formats
• 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

• Can remove Tearing.
• EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer) support
• Subtitle support
• Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed
• OSD (On Screen Display)
• Shuttle PN31 remote control support
• Multi-Monitor configuration support
• Pixel shader to convert BT601 - BT701
• YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Change Log

• New features :
  • Support for Flac audio streams
  • Support for Dolby Digital+ (Eac3) and Dolby true HD (MLP)
  • Nellymoser audio decoder
  • Belarusian, Brazilian and Sweedish translation
  • New shader "Sharpen Complex 2" (required hardware compatible with pixel shader 2.A)
  • Support for madVR video renderer
  • Additional information on video using MediaInfo (DLL can be download from http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net and placed in mpc-hc directory)
  • Internal DXVA decoder support for H264 with Intel G45 (thanks for people who help me at Intel Corp.)
• Changes :
  • Add support of interlaced flags in software mode for MPCVideoDecoder filter
  • D3DFullScreen mode now takes into account the monitor to full-screen mode in options, if monitor is not specified on the command line.
  • Auto-hide playlist on fullscreen(feature request #2219561)
  • Detours library updated to v2.1
  • Support for AC3 in MP4 splitter
  • Support for EAc3 in Matroska splitter
  • Hotkeys added to support more remote control keys
  • Support for Theora in Matroska internal splitter
  • LibVorbis updated to v1.2.3
  • LibOgg updated to v1.1.4
  • Improved streaming performances
  • Prevent display or computer to sleep during playback
  • Faad library updated to rev 2.2.7
  • LibPNG updated to release 1.2.38 (fix security bug)
  • Playlist file is now saved in mpc folder (patch # 2671496)
  • frame by frame modify to support step frame back functionality (except for VMR9)
  • support for AC3 in MP4 files created by Nero Digital
  • EVR custom and VMR9 renderless revamped (Beliyaal), better synchronisation, remove tearing in windowed mode, support for dialog box in DirectX exclusive mode, ...
• Bugs fixed :
  • Support for Theora stream in Ogg internal splitter
  • Save thumbnails crash in x64
  • Bugs on presentation graphics (missing subtitles, better synchronization)
  • Audio change on M2TS files reset the selected subtitle
  • Switch to "Minimal view" reset main menu language to English
  • Bug in Mpeg splitter for VC1
  • Maximum texture resolution to "Desktop" not working with Haali renderer (Bug #2456735)
  • Better synchronization with EVR custom to improve playback smoothness
  • 24 bits LPCM not properly play
  • Possible deadlock with Reclock
  • Support of framestep backward, even if the codec didn't support it natively (bug #2600542)
  • DXVA decoder support multiple graphics cards (PCI vendor id detection on the fly)
  • Incorrect aspect ratio for some H264 files with DXVA1 decoder (extended SAR)
  • H264 files with 16 reference frames freeze during playback (bug #2795785 and #2784256)
  • AVI with H264 not decoded properly (bug #2794854)
  • Revamped DXVA h264 decoder based on new insights, fixing black screen, macroblock, support for AVI, ...
  • Incorrect playback for padded DTS
  • Hang when moving player between monitors