New features :
- Seamless playback support for multi files BRD
- Support for Windows 7 taskbar and thumbnails features
- Added Catalan, Dutch and Japanese translations
- VSFilter x64 is available
- Added internal VP8 Decoder
- MPC-HC can be compiled with MSVC2010 and Intel C++ Compiler
- Support for MCE remote control (values added in AppCommand column in "Options/Player/Keys")
- Support of Broadcom Video decoder for VC1, H.264 and MPEG-2 (hardware acceleration)
- Support for DVB subtitles
- Open files to Recent Documents
- AUTO HDMI MODE 1080p/24 support for fullscreen mode
- Ticket #46, add number to AudioDevice list
- Sync Renderer dialogs
- Real Video decoder in MPCVideoDecoder
- Support interlaced mode in fullscreen resolution list
- Auto change fullscreen resolution for different video content
- Fullscreen Options page
- Video decoder, options for DXVA Compatibility check
- Support for MPEG-2 bitstreaming in the DXVA decoder
- Full screen resolution - support for native 23.976 and 29.97 mode (Vista and above only)
- Auto resolution change for DVD
- Always Exit after playback option
- Support for SRM7500 remote control
- New panel for switching DVB channels, audio and tuner scan accessible through View-->Navigation menu when in Capture mode
- Automatically play next files in a folder
- Implemented 'Quick add favorite' shortcut (default: Shift + Q) will use current settings from 'Add Favorite' dialog
- Select D3D device for render, including DXVA if two or more video adapters are in the system (EVR Custom & VMR9-Renderless only)
- Statistics - added render device
- Ability to select OSD font & size
- Option "Don't use 'search in folder' on commands 'Skip back/forward' when only one item in playlist"
- H.264 L5.1 DXVA support for ATI cards with drivers > v8.14.1.6105 (Catalyst 10.4)
- MPCVideoDecoder, disable DXVA (H.264) for SD video (width < 1280)
- Improved DXVA compatibility check
- Implemented drag and drop folders with sub-folders
- Support for MPEG-1/Layer1 audio stream in the Matroska splitter
- Command to switch video frame mode (key 'P')
- Video frame options like in TV: Zoom 1 and Zoom 2
- Auto saving position every 30 seconds
- Added internal filters context menu (disable/enable)
- Command to reopen file (Ctrl+E)
- Support for PGS in Matroska
- Open root BD movie from command line & shell context menu
- OSD messages added when switching audio stream or subtitles
- OSD on Jump Forward/Backward (keyframe)
- OSD when open DVD/BD
- OSD for jump to chapter in file
- Detect system UI language and set interface language at first run
- Full ICC color management (Little CMS v2.1a library added)
- Full floating point processing (FP16 temporary textures)
- High-quality dithering (color management, full floating point processing, 10-bit -> 8-bit)
- Option to force 10-bit EVR mixer input (probably hackish, but in many cases it seems to work)
- Added MediaInfoLib (v0.7.35) (no need for MediaInfo.dll anymore)
- Added support for MPEG-2_VLD DXVA for Intel G31/33 (and maybe other Intel) chipset
Changes :
- Updated UnrarDll. It is now possible to use the 64bit UnrarDll with the 64bit MPC-HC
- Updated Detours to v2.1 build 216
- Updated Bento4 to v1.2.3.0
- Updated libpng to v1.4.3
- Updated SoundTouch to v1.5.0
- Updated zlib to v1.2.5
- Updated LibOgg to v1.2.0
- Updated LibVorbis to v1.3.1
- Updated PNGDIB to v3.1.0
- Updated sizecbar to v2.45
- Better support for madVR
- Updated Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Traditional Chinese, German, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian translations
- Updated FFmpeg
- Updated installer script
- "DirectShow Audio" label on playback->output now says "Audio Renderer"
- Ticket #27: Allow screensaver to activate when audio only (sleep is still stopped)
- Add open file to Recent Document only if "Keep history of recently opened files" is checked
- Select and change resolution for selected fullscreen monitor
- Improve options for fullscreen monitor and resolution
- Open DVD root folder (include VIDEO_TS) from explorer context menu
- Many internal code improvements for more stability
- Improved playlist
- Improved subtitle handling
- Rewritten DVXA check for better readability
- Disabled internal H.264 (AVC) decoder for interlaced files (bad supported by FFmpeg)
- Show filename in OSD at open, instead "Pause/Play"
- Add 'x64' suffix in Title and in the About dialog for the x64 build
- OSD file name at open show delay up to 3 sec.
- Core rendering code in the DX9AllocatorPresenter class is moved to a new class :D X9RenderingEngine
- "10 bit RGB" option changed to "10-bit RGB Output", does not affect internal processing anymore
- Removed unnecessary temporary texture allocations
- Removed old player logos and added a new one
-Bugs fixed :
- Name of MPC-HC in title bar (Bug #2826963)
- Web interface status.html not showing status/media state when Status bar is turned off (Bug #2025675)
- Ticket #12, crash/hang after standby, hibernate, UAC or CTRL+ALT+DEL
- Ticket #74, [MP4] AAC sound stops playing
- Ticket #116, issue with some MPEG (mono) audio playback
- Ticket #120, Inner PCM inside QT .mov is supported now
- Ticket #150, issue with playback AMR sound
- Ticket #161 and #414, "no audio capture device"
- Ticket #163, Crash with RealMedia
- Ticket #237, DVB channels are all saved as number 0 when tuning
- Ticket #242, No PCM sowt audio in MOV
- Ticket #258, speaker configuration in Audio Switcher isn't stored
-Ticket #281, [CAPTURE] No video decoding when capturing from DVB-T card with internal MPEG2 DVXA Decoder enabled
- Ticket #282, Auto-zoom function problem
- Ticket #295, SSA/ASS and other save subtitle formats problem
- Ticket #300, Regression when hiding Caption and Menubar
- Ticket #333, Missing tracks when playing a TS file
- Ticket #363, #563, Can't open some mp3
- Ticket #385, no chapters with MP4Splitter
- Ticket #455, Bug with PGS subtitles
- Ticket #456, Problem with auto-loading subtitles fixed
- Ticket #465, MPEG/TS splitter can't recognize some video track
- Ticket #477, Internal audio switcher
- Ticket #489, MPC-HC API improvements
- Ticket #502, Problem with D3D9Ex
- Ticket #513, .rmvb interlaced decoding
- Ticket #511, Subtitle renderer crash fixed
- Ticket #528, Unable to scan for dvb-t
- Ticket #536, [MKV] Default values of the specification should be strictly followed
- Ticket #576, Next AR Preset Issue
- Ticket #578, VSFilter crash fix with certain malformed drawing lines
- Ticket #599, ignores /audiorender option
- Ticket #601, BD movie length detect wrong
- Ticket #660, Pressing left arrow under Options->Logo causes right arrow to disappear
- Ticket #661, Ctrl+C / File->Close form size discrepancy
- Ticket #672, DVB-T - image problems after changing from tv channel to radio & back
- Ticket #677, Wrong colors using Color Management
- Ticket #679, add color management status in EVR CP graph settings
- Ticket #680, "Don't hide controls in full screen" does not work unless you move the mouse
- Ticket #694, DLL preloading vulnerability
- Ticket #696, [GUI] use options dialog causes main window elements to disappear
- Ticket #714, MPEG2 detected as H264
- Opening multiple files via Explorer context menu
- Memory leak in libavcodec
- Memory leak in DXVA decoder
- Playback of some broken avi files
- Fix VCD playback
- Better detection of "Used For Reference Flags" (fixes some broken DXVA samples)
- Screensaver activating during video playback on XP
- Audio language detection for HDMV (broken by seamless playback feature)
- Bug with prevent sleep mode
- Bug in "Open File" dialog & "Add to Playlist" checked
- Default (center) window position after file close
- Issue with a switch to fullscreen mode
- FavoriteAdd dialog
- Possible buffer overflows
- Bug with launch in fullscreen
- Incorrect decoding with MPEG-2 bitstream decoder on video with alternative scan
- Seeking problem with MPEG files
- Don't show OSD message when auto play is disabled
- Checking for duplicates in display modes
- Correct state when done playback (rewind fix)
- Incorrect minimal window height calculation when caption is on
- Search in dir function
- Play video from network share
- Incorrect position (desktop) after fullscreen when playing multiple files on multi-monitor systems
- Playback issue for some H.264 media files captured from digital cameras
- Various DVB-T fixes
- DXVA regression: black video with some files
- Crash in Matroska splitter with unknown streams
- OSD shown wrong (previous) audio stream on change
- Improved DVD resume
- Crash with some VOB subtitles
- Undetected H.264 video streams in MPEG splitter
- Incorrect identification of the video stream in MPEG splitter (H.264 instead of MPEG-2)
- Logical/numeric sorting in Playlist, "Play next in the folder"
- OSD on open BD
- MPEGSplitter - could not read some MPEG files
- Crashes with MSVC2010 builds
- The EVR mixer output media subtype matches the surface format (as a consequence, it's always RGB)
- Incorrect lenght detection of MPEG, DVD (.ifo)
New:
Add a hotkey to open the subtitles downloader dialog
Web server: various performance improvements
VobSub subtitles can now also be loaded by selecting or draging and dropping the .sub file
FLACSource: Basic support for embedded metadata
Take currently applied delay into account when saving subtitles using File > Save subtitle
The volume steps can now be changed on the playback options page
Ticket #439, External subtitles: support UTF-8 without BOM
Ticket #728, Show tooltips in the information panel so that truncated lines can be read completely
Ticket #888, Show the information about the current DVB program in the information bar
Ticket #1004, The playing speed steps can now be changed on the playback options page
Ticket #1617, Use MPC-HC’s icon when registering the context menu entries
Ticket #1673, FLACSource: Basic support for embedded CUE sheet
Ticket #1680, Add Greek translation
Ticket #2425, Improve the “Remember file/DVD position” feature: when a file/DVD that was already in the list is reopened, it now goes at the top the list. This way files/DVDs that are often used will stay in the list instead of being inexorably pushed out of it.
Ticket #2647, Add .3ga to known formats
Ticket #2712, MPCVideoDec: Add the ability to force the interlaced flag
Ticket #2737, Improve file associations on Windows 8. The system dialog will be used to set MPC-HC as default handler since it is not possible anymore to do that programmatically.
Ticket #2739, Support custom pixel shaders with madVR v0.85.0
Changed:
Removed hotkeys to change the volume by 1%
VSFilter: Allow floating-point values for \fscx and \fscy
Ticket #2698, Allow the App key to be used as a hotkey which opens the player menu by default
Updated:
FFmpeg (n0.8-16924-ga8b3f0c)
MediaInfoLib to v0.7.61
ZenLib to v0.4.28 r411
Little CMS to v2.4 (git 026ba4f)
SoundTouch to v1.7.0 r160
VirtualDub to v1.10.3-test11
Armenian, Basque, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Slovak and Ukrainian translations
Fixed:
API: CMD_PAUSE was acting as CMD_PLAY and vice versa
MpaDecFilter: updated CMixer, avoid possible memory leaks
MPEG Splitter: Fix parsing of some malformed TS files
VSFilter (auto-loading version) didn’t load on Windows 7
VSFilter: Fix and update the blacklist
Internal Subtitle Renderer/VSFilter: Fix high RAM usage with some complex subtitles
DVB EPG: Fix the start time of the current program being off by one hour because of incorrect DST
Internal Subtitle Renderer/VSFilter: Fix most cases where rotating/shearing is not properly scaled
Ticket #376, Fix subtitles when switching from animated subs to non-animated subs. The subtitles’ timings were not correctly respected after switching from an animated subtitles track to a non-animated subtitles track.
Ticket #1782, Correctly empty the “Recent” jump list when erasing the history and ensure that no item is added to Windows recent documents menu or to the “Recent” jump list when the history is disabled
Ticket #1953, DVB EPG: Fix default encoding
Ticket #2326, Fix a crash when closing the player with the player menu open
Ticket #2537, #2554, Fix the “Attempted an unsupported operation” error in the Save dialogs on Vista and newer systems
Ticket #2572, FLACSource: Fix playback for some files
Ticket #2619, FLVSplitter CM audio doesn’t play
Ticket #2673, MPEGSplitter: Fix playback for some TS files
Ticket #2685, FLACSource: Fix a crash with some corrupted file
Ticket #2699, AviSplitter: Fix a potential crash with PCM tracks
Ticket #2703, Fix a crash that could happen when auto-loading some subtitles
Ticket #2751, Improve DVBSub parsing: some subtitles could have been missing