Install MPC-HC

About MPC-HC

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. It is famous and loved for its simple and effective user interface, providing an excellent user experience. It offers a huge amount of functionality. Being a DirectShow player, it also allows flexibility and extensibility through third party filters.

What's new in 2.7.1

Donations are appreciated. There is now a PayPal option. Changes from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1: Updates: - Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.2.2535 Fixes: - Several small fixes and improvements. OpenSubtitles download error 406 Subtitle downloads from OpenSubtitles may fail depending on time of day. This is due to our daily download quota being exceeded. Current amount of donations is barely enough to pay for the existing quota. So it is unlikely that quota can be increased and situation will get worse over time. If you create an OpenSubtitles account and configure it in MPC-HC settings then you may be able to bypass the quota. Options > Subtitles > Misc > Right-click on OpenSubtitles.com > Setup > Fill in username/password Overview of features A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about: - Play HDR video This requires using either MPC Video Renderer (MPCVR) or madVR. These renderers can be selected here: Options > Playback > Output With other video renderers, the colors will be wrong! MPCVR is now included and is the recommended renderer for modern systems. MadVR needs to be installed separately. MPCVR also supports Dolby Vision. MadVR does not. For optimal performance you should change the hardware decoder to D3D11 in LAV Video Decoder settings when using MPCVR on Windows 10/11, because this renderer uses DirectX11. (Automatic detection of GPU and configuration of the above settings is high on my ToDo list, so MPC-HC will ha...

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