A multimedia player with a similar interface to Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many more features specific for DivX playback.
A "HomeCinema" edition of MPC is also available with some additional features:
Anti tearing option
Jitter tests - In VMR9 renderless and EVR custom pres. mode it's possible to display a jitter curve using "Ctrl+J" shortcut. This curve show difference between the moment one frame was expected to be displayed, and the moment it was really displayed.
Subtiles synchronisation
Shuttle PN31 remote control support
OSD (On Screen Display) - When video output is VMR9 or EVR, MPC can displays some informations on screen (remaining time, volume, audio track, subtitle, …).
Playing back .MP4 H.264 encoded movies:
Use VideoLAN which has a built in .MP4 reader and H.264 decoder
Description: This guide provides information and tips for some of the things you might need to do with your MP4 file, like playback, conversion (to and from), splitting/joining, mux/demux and more.
Description: Short guide on how to watch DVD files that are on your hard drive. This guide can also be used to preview the files before actually burning them to a disc.
Added a dark theme option for the GUI. You can enable it through: Menu > View > Dark theme
The dark theme also has a more modern looking seekbar. You can adjust seekbar height in: Options > Advanced
Added option for vertical alignment of the video. This for example allows you to have a black bar only below the video.
Added support for playing contents of uncompressed RAR5 archives. Previously only RAR4 was supported.
Added manual search functionality to the subtitle download results window.
Improved positioning of PGS subtitles
Some optimizations for subtitle texture size. This should improve performance on systems with multiple screens. And also reduce GPU memory usage.
Added column sorting and a search/filter option to the keybindings options page.
The supported languages of the OpenSubtitles/SubDB subtitle providers are now hardcoded, so the player no longer needs to connect to the Internet each time the subtitle options page is viewed.
Reloading a stream with CTRL+E will now call youtube-dl again to get a fresh URL.
Added basic support for MPC Video Renderer (https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/VideoRenderer). What currently works with this new renderer is: Hardware decoding, Subtitles, and Pan&Scan. What not yet works is: OSD, Rotation, and Shaders. That will be added in a future update.
Fixes:
Crash when detaching a (cloned) monitor during playback.
D3D exclusive not working anymore when transitioning to fullscreen a second time.
Restored window size was sometimes wrong due to DPI settings
Workaround for Intel driver bug where Brightness and Hue values of -100 are unsupported.