Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.9.10

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 on the website Doom9 and a long-time member of mpc-hc now releases new “unofficial” versions from time to time. These mainly contain small improvements and the latest versions of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo are always included. The changelog for version 1.9.10 can be found below.

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Some optimizations for the seek preview functionality
• Seek preview now gets hidden when dragging the seekbar
• Renamed “System Default” video renderer to “Video Mixing Renderer 7”. This to prevent people from thinking this ancient renderer is the preferred one. Also changed order of the available renderers to put the recommended ones at the top.
• The player now tries to parse JSON output from youtube-dl even when that has encountered an error. This fixes loading of youtube playlists that contain deleted videos.
• Added a timeout in LAV Splitter code to prevent the player from freezing in case of certain network connection errors during playback of online streams
• Added support for text color tags in WebVTT subtitles
• Subtitle render buffer is now disabled by default. It doesn’t provide any noticeable performance benefit for most users.
• A few other small changes

Fixes:

• Fixed subtitle text encoding bug that caused wrong characters to be displayed (regression in 1.9.9)
• Fixed issue that caused wrong keyframe to be show in seek preview window. Now a seek will go to the same frame as shown in the preview.
• Fixed issue in sub picture buffer implementation that could result in reduced rendering performance for animated subtitles in certain cases
• A few other small fixes