Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.9.19

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 minor improvements and the latest versions of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo are always included. The changelog for version 1.9.19 can be found below.

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.76-2-g642bf

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Windows Vista is no longer supported.
• Added hotkeys to adjust font scale of text based subtitles. Defaults are set to: Ctrl+Add/Substract
• Added hotkeys to move subtitles vertically. Defaults are set to: Ctrl+Shift+Add/Substract
• Added hotkeys to zoom in/out the player window in 32px increments. Unset by default.
• Added BT.2020 support to the RGB color correction of subtitles. This is used if signaled by the subtitle script or video renderer.
• Added advanced option to not open the recording panel automatically when opening a capture device.
• The internal splitter now supports a few more audio and video formats.
• Increased web interface video preview update frequency

Fixes:

• Fixed issue with framestepping that could give lagging behavior with madvr.
• Fixed subtitle issue where opaque border style could be draw even when both border and shadow were zero.
• Fixed subtitle issue with handling of no-break space character.
• Fixed issue with saving the playlist if it contained certain Unicode characters
• A few other small fixes and internal optimizations