1.9.2

Changes from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1-34-g1ceac

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added A-B Repeat functionality. You can set the timeline markers with [ and ] keys.
• Added a 25% zoom shortcut and menu entry
• Added support for reading title information (EXTM3U) from m3u playlist files.
• Added mousewheel tilt left/right support for shortcut settings (Options > Player > Keys)
• Added basic support for external WebVTT subtitles (.vtt). Only simple text formatting is supported. Advanced tags are ignored.
• Significantly improved performance of adding (many) files to the playlist.
• Changed logic of "Auto Fit (larger only)". Previously it would resize if the video was too large to fit on the screen. Now it always resizes when the video is larger then the specified auto fit factor percentage of the screen size.

Fixes:

• Fixed a few small GUI regressions related to dark theme
• Fixed a few rare crashes
• Fixed coverart not always loading for files with their own external coverart image file
• Improved compatibility of internal audio renderer with DTV playback
• When player is minimized it now stays minimized when adding files to playlist from Explorer

Notes:

• You can help to improve/complete the translations here: https://www.transifex.com/mpchc/mpchc/

1.9.1

Changes from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1:

Changes/additions/improvements:

• ICC color profile is now also applied on coverart
• Added LumaSharpen and Sepia shaders
• Added a shortcut for toggling default subtitle style (see Options > Player > Keys)
• Improved the visual appearance of the volume control in dark theme
• Improved the visual appearance of the transition to full screen (on Windows 8+)

Fixes:

• Fixed slow loading of huge playlist (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed autoplay issue with madVR on secondary screen (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed large text in option window due to text scaling of Windows 10 (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed issue where subtitles could be rendered at a too low resolution after video resize (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed a small memory leak with PNG coverart
• Fixed rendering of certain SSA subs that use opaque boxes as background for translated texts
• youtube-dl processing is now skipped when an URL points directly to a media file

1.9.0

Changes from 1.8.8 to 1.9.0:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1-31-ge94f9

Changes/additions/improvements:

• 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.
• Custom toolbar button file is now loaded using these filenames: toolbar.[png/bmp/svg] (normal theme / grayscale buttons), toolbar_dark.[png/bmp/svg] (dark theme / grayscale), color_toolbar.[png/bmp/svg] (normal theme / colored buttons), color_toolbar_dark.[png/bmp/svg] (dark theme / colored buttons)
• 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.

1.8.8

Changes from 1.8.7 to 1.8.8:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1-24-g50b3a
• Updated MediaInfo DLL to v19.09

Fixes:

• Security fixes in PGS subtitle parser

1.8.7

Changes from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1-20-gc76c1
• Updated MediaInfo DLL to v19.04

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Added option for looping folder when playing next/previous file
• Added option for specifying the preferred video format when selecting a stream from Youtube-DL results
• Global Media Keys option is now disabled by default on Windows 10, because Windows sends a Play/Pause event in certain cases (e.g. when notifications appear).
• A few other minor changes

Fixes:

• DVD region code bypass didn't always work

1.8.6

Changes from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74.1

Fixes:

• Potential crash when removing shader cache files

1.8.5

Changes from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.74

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Option to specify command line parameters to use when downloading with youtube-dl (File > Save a Copy). Does not apply to streaming.
• CoverArt improvements. Prefer image with same filename. Reduced chance of false positive matches.
• Increased max Pan&Scan zoom factor to 5x.

Fixes:

• Crash in null renderer. Also support more mediatypes.
• Ellipsis character was trimmed off from beginning or end of subtitles.
• Ignore auto-zoom setting when remember window size is enabled.
• Remember correct playlist position on a non-primary screen from extended Desktop.
• Don't use YDL when an URL points to a file.

1.8.4

Changes from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.73.1
• Updated MediaInfo DLL to v18.12

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Several Youtube-DL related improvements
• Menu > File > "Save a copy" now also works for online streams
• Increased maximum image size for "Save Thumbnails" to 3840. Max columns is now 16 and max rows is now 40.

Fixes:

• Fixed slow seeking in certain MP4 files
• Fixed playback of UHD Bluray with internal source filter

1.8.3

Changes from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.73

Changes/additions/improvements:

• Improved cover art selection when a file contains multiple embedded covers
• Added advanced option for controlling usage of Youtube-DL
• Excluded certain URLs from being processed by Youtube-DL (for example direct file links and URLs without domain)

Fixes:

• Fixed crash when accessing info page of web interface

1.8.2

Changes from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2:

Updates:

• Updated LAV Filters to v0.72-13-g449f8

Fixes:

• Previous version of LAV Filters caused freeze when opening DVD and crash with certain files
• Correct millisecond value in SaveImage filename
• YDL links were added to recent file list even if keep history was disabled