Media Player Classic Home Cinema 2.3.7 (MPC-HC)

Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a lightweight media player for Windows. Designed as a mod of Media Player Classic for home cinema use, it resembles Windows Media Player 6.4 but includes many additional features.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema allows enhancement, decoding, and acceleration of a wide range of movie formats, including x.264, with GPU-assisted acceleration and image quality enhancements.

The MPC Home Cinema player requires fewer system resources than most other video media players for smooth operation. This Windows media player is optimized for minimal resource usage, making it suitable for slower machines with older CPUs.

Modern graphics cards can partially or fully decode a video stream using DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), significantly reducing CPU usage.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema includes an embedded video decoder that uses this technology to decode x.264, H.264, HEVC, and VC-1 formats with minimal CPU usage.

Supported Decoding

Media Player Classic supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 playback. It can play VCD, SVCD, and DVD formats without requiring additional software or codecs.

It has built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video and codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3, and DTS audio, and likewise contains an improved MPEG splitter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. A *.mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text support were added. An AAC decoding filter makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in MP4.

MPC Home Cinema additionally has H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, and DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video formats are available in MPC HC. MPC may use the QuickTime and the ActualPlayer architectures. Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats.

Supported Video, Audio, and Image File Formats

WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, MIDI, MPEG, MPG, MP2, VOB, AC3, DTS, ASX, M3U, PLS, WAX, ASF, WM, WMA, WMV, AVI, CDA, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, D2V, MP4, SWF, MOV, QT, FLV

Additional Media Player Classic Home Cinema Features:

• Play HDR video. This requires using MPC Video Renderer or madVR.
• Option to remove Tearing.
• Better support for Windows 11, including a release for the 64-bit platform.
• Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer)
• Supports Subtitles.
• Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed.
• Creation of minidump when Media Player Classic Home Cinema 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.