Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.8.4

In July 2017, version 1.7.13 of Media Player Classic – Home Cinema was released and the developers indicated that they will continue no more new versions were going to bring out. However, the source code is open source, and a developer known as clsid at the Doom9 website and who was himself involved with mpc-hc for a long time now occasionally releases new “unofficial” versions. These only contain minor improvements and the latest version of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo is always included. The changelog for version 1.8.4 can be found below.

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.73.1
• Updated MediaInfo DLL to v18.12

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Several Youtube-DL related improvements
• Menu > File > “Save a copy” now also works for online streams
• Increased maximum image size for “Save Thumbnails” to 3840. Max columns is now 16 and max rows is now 40.

Fixes:

• Fixed slow seeking in certain MP4 files
• Fixed playback of UHD Bluray with internal source filter