Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.9.11

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 mainly contain small improvements and the latest versions of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo are always included. The changelog for version 1.9.11 can be found below.

Updates:

• LAV Filters version 0.75-2-gddef5
• MediaInfo DLL version 21.03

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added basic support for embedded WebVTT subtitles
• Seek preview window now uses same aspect ratio as the video
• After long pause (> 10 min) or hibernation, the player now performs a seek to current position before resuming. This re-initializes the video decoder, and hopefully solves a hang/crash on certain systems (with buggy graphics driver).
• Some improvements for the youtube-dl functionality. It now also supports DASH manifest URLs.

Fixes:

• Fixed subtitle regression that could cause subtitles to be skipped in certain situations when multiple lines were visible
• Fixed issue with seeking to nearest keyframe
• Fixed issue where the seek preview window broke the “always on top” functionality
• A few other small fixes