Media Player Classic – Home Cinema 2.3.0

In July 2017, version 1.7.13 of Media Player Classic – Home Cinema was released and the developers indicated that they would not release any more new versions. However, the source code is open source and a developer known as clsid at the Doom9 website, who was himself involved with mpc-hc for a long time, now occasionally releases new, 'unofficial' versions. These mainly contain minor improvements and the latest versions of the LAV Filters and MediaInfo are always included. Version 2.3.0 has been released and the changelog for this release can be found below.

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to version 0.79.2-9- g56aab
• Updated MediaInfo to version 24.05
• Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.8.3.2255
• Updated libass and various other external libs

Changes/additions/improvements:

• MPC Video Renderer is now included in the installer/zip and usable as internal filter.
  It is not yet the default renderer, but will become that in near future (on modern systems). You can select it here:
  Options > Playback > Output
  It uses DirectX 11 on Windows 10/11, so for optimal performance and compatibility it is also recommended to change the hardware decoder from DXVA2 to D3D11:
  Options > Internal Filters > Video Decoder > Hardware acceleration
  Note: an external copy of the video renderer gets used first when available, so either uninstall that or update it.
• New OSD implementation. It now also works during audio-only playback. OSD transparency can be adjusted in advanced options.
• Volume normalize algorithm now no longer regains on short seeks and much less on long seeks. This should prevent unwanted jumps in volume.
• Improved downsampling quality of the images when generating a thumbnail sheet.

Fixes:

• Several small fixes and improvements