Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.2.908.0

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (84 votes)

(November 29, 2008)

Windows (All) / Open Source / 18,411 downloads

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is a Media Player Classic mod design for homecinema usage.

Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player), and lots more.

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    casimir666

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    Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

  • Latest Changes

    - Support Multi-Monitor configuration, select Monitor for full-screen playback

    - Creation of minidump when mpc crash

    - Simplified Chinese & Traditional Chinese translations

    - Pixel shader to convert BT601 -> BT701 (request #1911511)

    - YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader added (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1184975#post1184975)

    - Recursively adding directories to the Playlist (feature request #2013805), add as New Menu item

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    emanresU deriseD

    Reviewing 1.2.908.0 (Jun 5, 2009)

    It's pretty funny that they consider "Homecinema" an actual compound word. It's even funnier that the Fileforum editors "correct it" in the listing, even though when they do so, they get the name of the application wrong. (I know it doesn't matter, I'm just saying...)

    Some things that make me stick with the slow and unstable KMPlayer:

    - Lack of A-B repeat
    - Lack of automatic playback position saving
    - Cannot play incomplete video files

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Banquo

    Reviewing 1.2.908.0 (Mar 18, 2009)

    analphatester: "not working on win9x"

    Who uses Win9x anymore? It doesn't work on MS-DOS either, or CP/M.

    Here in the present century it works just fine though.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    photonboy

    Reviewing 1.2.908.0 (Dec 12, 2008)

    I now use for all my content including High-Def BluRay/HD-DVD rips primarily in Matroska.

    I can now use the High-Def decoders when the settings are correct (overlay mixer for XP; EVR for Vista, enable DXVA via AVC and VC-1 etc).

    Tested on an ATI HD3870 desktop and NVidia 8600M GS notebook. In XP the ATI system used 44% of the CPU for "wmplayerc.exe" to run a 1080p BluRay rip with DXVA disabled and only 3% once I enabled the hardware decoders.

    My TOTAL CPU usage to playback a 1080p BluRay rip of Hellboy (mine of course) was 5% under XP. Add a few percent under Vista. CPU was an AMD X2-4800+ but it sounds like maybe even an Intel Atom might work in conjunction with ATI or NVidia hardware decoders and MPlayerc Home Cinema with the settings correctly setup to use them.

    Use the Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and monitor "mplayerc.exe" to see if you have the correct settings. I recommend setting up a K-Lite Standard Codec pack and overwrite the regular MPlayer Classic (in the K-Lite installed folder on C:/Program Files..) with this one.

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    analphatester

    Reviewing 1.2.908.0 (Dec 10, 2008)

    not working on win9x

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    horsecharles

    Reviewing 1.2.908.0 (Dec 8, 2008)

    Support for multi-monitors is a real potential homerun:

    I work with a lot of web-embedded content..I'm going to try making it the default player for everything.

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