Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec.

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It also supports SVCD/CVD selectable subtitles and lots more. The best part about Media Player Classic is the ability to modify the filters when playing your favorite video files.

What is Media Player Classic - Home Cinema?

It is a Media Player Classic mod designed for homecinema usage and released by Casimir666.

Changes in Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 :

- MPC: some minor changes
• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 [2008-10-05]
- MPC: Save image/thumbnails now also supports PNG
- MPC: Updated libpng to 1.2.32
- MPC: Fixed playlist shuffle functionality

Changes in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.3.1249.0 :

- NEW: Support for Flac audio streams
- NEW: Support for Dolby Digital+ (Eac3) and Dolby true HD (MLP)
- NEW: Nellymoser audio decoder
- NEW: Belarusian, Brazilian and Sweedish translation
- NEW: New shader "Sharpen Complex 2" (required hardware compatible with pixel shader 2.A)
- NEW: Support for madVR video renderer (http://madshi.net/madVR.zip)
- NEW: Additional information on video using MediaInfo (DLL can be download from http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net and placed in mpc-hc directory)
- NEW: Internal DXVA decoder support for H264 with Intel G45 (thanks for people who help me at Intel Corp.)
- CHANGED: Add support of interlaced flags in software mode for MPCVideoDecoder filter
- CHANGED: D3DFullScreen mode now takes into account the monitor to full-screen mode in options, if monitor is not specified on the command line.
- CHANGED: Auto-hide playlist on fullscreen(feature request #2219561)
- CHANGED: Detours library updated to v2.1
- CHANGED: Support for AC3 in MP4 splitter
- CHANGED: Support for EAc3 in Matroska splitter
- CHANGED: Hotkeys added to support more remote control keys
- CHANGED: Support for Theora in Matroska internal splitter
- CHANGED: LibVorbis updated to v1.2.3
- CHANGED: LibOgg updated to v1.1.4
- CHANGED: Improved streaming performances
- CHANGED: Prevent display or computer to sleep during playback
- CHANGED: Faad library updated to rev 2.2.7
- CHANGED: LibPNG updated to release 1.2.38 (fix security bug)
- CHANGED: Playlist file is now saved in mpc folder (patch # 2671496)
- CHANGED: frame by frame modify to support step frame back functionality (except for VMR9)
- CHANGED: support for AC3 in MP4 files created by Nero Digital
- CHANGED: EVR custom and VMR9 renderless revamped (Beliyaal), better synchronisation, remove tearing in windowed mode, support for dialog box in DirectX exclusive mode, ...
- FIXED: Support for Theora stream in Ogg internal splitter
- FIXED: Save thumbnails crash in x64
- FIXED: Bugs on presentation graphics (missing subtitles, better synchronization)
- FIXED: Audio change on M2TS files reset the selected subtitle
- FIXED: Switch to "Minimal view" reset main menu language to English
- FIXED: Bug in Mpeg splitter for VC1
- FIXED: Maximum texture resolution to "Desktop" not working with Haali renderer (Bug #2456735)
- FIXED: Better synchronization with EVR custom to improve playback smoothness
- FIXED: 24 bits LPCM not properly play
- FIXED: Possible deadlock with Reclock
- FIXED: Support of framestep backward, even if the codec didn't support it natively (bug #2600542)
- FIXED: DXVA decoder support multiple graphics cards (PCI vendor id detection on the fly)
- FIXED: Incorrect aspect ratio for some H264 files with DXVA1 decoder (extended SAR)
- FIXED: H264 files with 16 reference frames freeze during playback (bug #2795785 and #2784256)
- FIXED: AVI with H264 not decoded properly (bug #2794854)
- FIXED: Revamped DXVA h264 decoder based on new insights, fixing black screen, macroblock, support for AVI, ...
- FIXED: Incorrect playback for padded DTS
- FIXED: Hang when moving player between monitors