Added ability to load a secondary subtitle track from the subtitle menu. This supports only external text-based formats (SRT) and excludes formats that may contain explicit positioning (SSA/PGS/VobSub). The secondary subtitle is rendered at the top of the window. There are some known limitations. For example adjustments such as delay will apply to both tracks. Secondary is also not included in screenshots. Do NOT open issues/requests about this!
Added ability to auto-copy all rendered subtitle text to the clipboard in real-time. Toggling this on/off can be assigned to a hotkey or one of the custom toolbar buttons.
New "remote" page in web interface, providing a modern interface for remote control of MPC-HC from any phone (or web browser) in your local network.
Expanded the API for remote control through window messages from a master process. See MpcApi.h header file.
Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
Added "sort by date" option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as "Load subtitles".
MPC Video Renderer is now the by default renderer on the majority of systems. Previously EVR-CP was the default. MPCVR is a more advanced modern renderer with support for HDR video.
MPC-HC will detect your GPU(s) (once) after updating to this new version and will adjust the video renderer and hardware decoding settings when it makes sense.
Added an option to show the playback timer next to the seekbar instead of inside the statusbar. By default it is placed at the right side. There is an advanced option to place it at the left side. Tip: seekbar height can be adjusted in the options. Timer text size is scaled accordingly.
Added a new customizable viewing preset (hotkey 4). By default this hides the menu and statusbar compared to the normal viewing preset (hotkey 3).
Added an advanced option to specify the default viewing preset when starting the player. By default it remembers to last used
viewing mode.
Added a submenu to playlist context menu for adjusting the playlist location.
Fixes:
A few crash fixes, bug fixes and small improvements.
Fixed an issue where player could get stuck on "Opening" when the graph worker thread malfunctioned. This happened on a few Windows 11 systems when opening files from Windows Search. We were unable to reproduce it, so root cause is unknown, likely an obscure Windows bug.
Hiding of capture settings panel is now remembered.
Automatic subtitle search now only uses OpenSubtitles if you have configured an account for it. Because we have a limited daily download quota, this choice was made to reduce unnecessary downloads.
Added two new toolbar skins.
Fixes:
Improved long path support for loading external subtitles.
Donations are appreciated. There is now a PayPal option.
Changes from 2.5.3 to 2.5.4:
Updates:
Updated LAV Filters to version 0.80-9-gb2240
Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.9.15.2463
Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 25.09
Fixes:
A few small fixes and improvements.
OpenSubtitles download error 406
Subtitle downloads from OpenSubtitles may fail depending on time of day. This is due to our daily download quota being exceeded. Current amount of donations is barely enough to pay for the existing quota. So it is unlikely that quota can be increased and situation will get worse over time.
If you create an OpenSubtitles account and configure it in MPC-HC settings then you may be able to bypass the quota.
Options > Subtitles > Misc > Right-click on OpenSubtitles.com > Setup > Fill in username/password
Toolbars
If you want to create you own toolbar design, read this.
Translations
You can help improve and complete translations. See this topic for more info. There are several languages where recently added options have not yet been translated.
Overview of features
A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:
Play HDR video
This requires using either MPC Video Renderer (MPCVR) or madVR.
These renderers can be selected here:
Options > Playback > Output
With other video renderers, the colors will be wrong!
MPCVR is now included and is the recommended renderer for modern systems. MadVR needs to be installed separately. MPCVR also supports Dolby Vision. MadVR does not.
For optimal performance you should change the hardware decoder to D3D11 in LAV Video Decoder settings when using MPCVR on Windows 10/11, because this renderer uses DirectX11.
The installer of MPC-HC is very basic (and that will not change).
I therefore recommend using K-Lite Codec Pack. That includes MPC-HC and other essential components. It has a very advanced installation that can automatically create file associations, and helps you with easy configuration of important MPC-HC settings.
The Standard version should be sufficient for most people. Use Full version of you like to use MadVR.
Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light)
Options > Player > User Interface
It is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
Video preview on the seekbar
Options > Player > User Interface > Hover type
Ability to search for subtitles
Press D for manual search.
Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc
Adjust playback speed
Menu > Play > Playback rate
The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
Options > Playback > Speed step
Adjusting playback speed works best with the internal audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
Options > Player > History
You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
A-B repeat
You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
Menu > View > Pan&Scan
This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
Options > Player > Keys
Tip: there is a search box above the table.
You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
Put yt-dlp.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
This includes an option to specify the location of yt-dlp.exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
Note 1: You also need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Note 2: yt-dlp nightly build (very latest version made daily)
Note 3: yt-dlp win7 compatible build
Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.
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