Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.7.1

Media Player Classic is a small no-nonsense media player with the look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4. However, Gabest, the original creator of this program, has since discontinued development and several projects have been created based on this open source code, including Media Player Classic – Home Cinema. The program handles the most commonly used media formats, has hardware acceleration support and is available in more than 25 languages. Version 1.7.1 has been released and the changelog of this release looks like this:

New:

• Ticket #2655, Internal filters: Support WMV/ASF/DVR-MS splitting
• Ticket #3548, Add British English translation
• Ticket #3590, Internal filters: Support for HEVC and VP9
• Ticket #3605, Support playlists using UTF8 encoding without BOM
• Ticket #3643, Add Slovenian translation

Changed:

• Ticket #3569/#3679/#3680, Disable internal WMV/ASF/DVR-MS splitting and WMV decoding by default since Microsoft filters are generally more stable

Updated:

• LAV Filters to 0.59.1.26:
  • Ticket #3576, LAV Video: Support H264 Annex B format in MP4 files
  • Ticket #3601, LAV Video: Fix a crash with DXVA on AMD cards when stopping playback
  • Ticket #3676, LAV Audio: Fix a crash when using old versions of the ArcSoft DTS Decoder to handle DTS decoding internally
  • Ticket #3688, LAV Audio: Fix a freeze when changing the bitstreaming settings when paused
• VirtualDub to v1.10.4
• Unrar to v5.0.0.12
• Little CMS to v2.6b (git 69ecafd)
• French, German, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Simplified Chinese translations

Fixed:

• DVD: The chapter marks could be wrong for some titles
• Ticket #1478, Slightly improve the precision of the frame number in the “Go To” dialog. The frame number was sometimes off by 1. This was easily noticeable when doing frame-stepping
• Ticket #1555, Use elapsed/remaining time for the chapter change OSD depending on what is selected for the time display. Also prevent the OSD from blinking when changing the chapter
• Ticket #3518:trac:, Improve the reliability of the [DXVA] indicator in the status bar. Sometimes the indicator wasn’t shown when hardware acceleration was used
• Ticket #3523/#3533/#3551, Improve the stability of MPC-HC on buggy systems
• Ticket #3530, Internal LAV Splitter: the advanced subtitle selection modes were ignored
• Ticket #3564, If “Keep history of recently opened file” option was enabled, MPC-HC crashed when opening very long URLs
• Ticket #3672, “Output” property page: “Shader” and “Rotation” were sometimes wrongly displayed as unavailable for “Sync renderer”
• Ticket #3702, External audio was not synced on open if restarting from the last remembered position
• Ticket #3720, DVB: Obey the Auto-zoom option when opening a channel