Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.9.1

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 would bring out. However, the source code is open source, and a developer known as clsid at the Doom9 website and a long-time member of mpc-hc now releases new “unofficial” versions from time to time. These contain only minor improvements and the latest version of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo is always included. The changelog for version 1.9.1 can be found below.

Changes/additions/improvements:

• ICC color profile is now also applied on cover art
• Added LumaSharp and Sepia shaders
• Added a shortcut for toggling default subtitle style (see Options > Player > Keys)
• Improved the visual appearance of the volume control in dark theme
• Improved the visual appearance of the transition to full screen (on Windows 8+)

Fixes:

• Fixed slow loading or huge playlist (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed autoplay issue with madVR on secondary screen (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed large text in option window due to text scaling of Windows 10 (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed issue where subtitles could be rendered at a too low resolution after video resize (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed a small memory leak with PNG cover art
• Fixed rendering of certain SSA subs that use opaque boxes as background for translated texts
• youtube-dl processing is now skipped when an URL points directly to a media file