Media Player Classic Home Cinema 1.6.1.4235

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a full featured audio and video player based on the original Media Player Classic, a great open source Windows multimedia player. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional features. You can use the player as a Media Player Classic Home Theater. Media Player Classic Home Cinema allows you to enhance, decode and accelerate a broad span of movie formats like x.264 with GPU assisted acceleration and image quality enhancing. Media Player Classic Home Cinema does not require many system resources than the rest of the video media players to run smoothly. This is a low PC resources windows media player that runs on slower machines with older CPUs. Modern graphics card offer the possibility to decode partially or completely a video stream using DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), in order to reduce CPU usage dramatically. MPC-HC includes an embedded video decoder that uses this technology, to decode x.264, H.264 and VC-1 with hardly any CPU time required.

Additional player features:
- Option to remove Tearing
- Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform
- Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer)
- Subtitles support
- Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed
- Creation of minidump when MPC HC crashes
- OSD (On Screen Display)
- Shuttle PN31 remote control support
- Support Multi-Monitor configuration
- Pixel shader to convert BT601 - BT701
- YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader
- Language Translations
- All features from the Guliverkli MPC Project from Gabest
- Remote control for Android devices

What's new in this version:

- Use ffmpeg for RealVideo/RealAudio decoding
- Support for SIPR and VP30/31
- Support WMV3 DXVA
- Support for ALAC
- MatroskaSplitter: support for QDesign Music, Sorenson and Cinepak video
- Add the ability to check if a newer stable version is available using Help --> Check for updates
- A keyboard shortcut can now be assigned to toggle custom channel mapping on/off
- Support for decoding FLV SWF ADPCM [view full changelog here]

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Screenshot

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Interface

Latest version: 1.6.1.4235 (02 Apr 2012)
License: Freeware
System requirements: Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download MPC-HC 32-Bit setup: MPC-HomeCinema.1.6.1.4235.x86.exe (5.7 MB)
Download MPC-HC 64-Bit setup: MPC-HomeCinema.1.6.1.4235.x64.exe (6.0 MB)
Download MPC-HC 32-Bit portable: MPC-HomeCinema.1.6.1.4235.x86.7z (5.0 MB)
Download MPC-HC 64-Bit portable: MPC-HomeCinema.1.6.1.4235.x64.7z (5.3 MB)

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