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

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:

Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light)
Options > Player > User Interface
When using modern theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
Video preview on the seekbar
Options > Player > User Interface
Play HDR video
This requires using MPC Video Renderer or madVR.
After installation these renderers can be selected here:
Options > Playback > Output
Tip: If you want an easy to use all-in-one package that contains MPC-HC and these renderers, then use K-Lite Codec pack.
Ability to search for subtitles
Press D for manual search.
Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc
Adjust playback speed
Menu > Play > Playback rate
The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
Options > Playback > Speed step
Adjusting playback speed works best with the SaneAR audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
Options > Player > History
You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
A-B repeat
You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
Menu > View > Pan&Scan
This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
Options > Player > Keys
Tip: there is a search box above the table.
You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
Put yt-dlp.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don’t want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
Note 1: You also need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Note 2: yt-dlp nightly build (very latest version made daily)
Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.

System Requirements

Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11

Changes from 2.7.4 to 2.8.0:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82-5-g77c25
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.7.2560

Changes/additions:

• Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
• Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
• It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
• When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
• Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
• Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
• There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
• Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
• Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
• When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
• Added “sort by date” option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
• Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
• Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
• Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
• Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
• Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
• Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
• Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
• Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
• Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as “Load subtitles”.
• A few other fixes and small improvements.

A big thanks to my fellow developer Adipose for doing a lot of great work this summer.

 

 

 

 

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