Software Update: Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 1.9.9

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 1.9.9 can be found below.

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to 0.74.1-92-g88da5

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added video preview functionality to the seekbar
  You can enable this in: Options > Tweaks
  For performance reasons, preview is only shown in case of local file playback. It is disabled for online streams and spinning discs.
  Preview is currently also only enabled for files that have keyframes for fast seeking.
  To avoid interference with the main video playback, preview does not use hardware accelerated decoding.
  Don’t enable preview if you have a slow computer that already struggles with normal video playback.
• Added menu entries and hotkeys for toggling shaders on/off
• Added support for CUE sheets
• Increased default value for number of recent files that is remembered from 20 to 40
• Reduced minimum allow playback rate from 0.125x to 0.05x
• Some seeking improvements. Unprocessed seeks can no longer queue up when seeking is slow.
• The internal audio renderer can now fallback to default audio device if it fails to initialize the output device that is selected in the options

Fixes:

• Fixed some issues with parsing M3U playlists
• Fixed issue with opening online .asx playlist
• Fixed GDI resource leak in dark theme
• Fixed hang with MPC Video Renderer if max subpic texture size was set to VIDEO
• Fixed automatic metadata based rotation with MPC Video Renderer
• Several crash fixes
• Several other small fixes and improvements