HC Player 1.3

HC Player 1.3

What's new

• Added optional native OpenSubtitles integration directly from the subtitle panel.
• Added optional native YouTube Comments using the user's own YouTube Data API key.
• Added Most Relevant / Newest sorting for YouTube comments.
• Added relative timestamps for recent comments, such as 5 minutes ago and 1 hour ago.
• Added (edited) indicators when YouTube reports that a comment was updated after publication.
• Added on-demand replies for YouTube comment threads.
• Added incremental reply pagination, loading up to 50 replies at a time, with a Load more replies option for large threads.
• Added native YouTube Live Chat with API-guided automatic refresh and bounded message history.
• Added Ctrl+Y to quickly toggle the YouTube Comments / Live Chat panel when available.

Picture-in-Picture

• PiP window size refined to 440 × 330 DIP.
• Returning from PiP to the normal window now keeps the transport controls hidden.
• Transport controls reappear only after genuine user interaction.

Media information

• MediaInfo now prefers the full HDR format description when available.
• Improved reporting of Dolby Vision and HDR details.

HC Player 1.2

HC Player 1.2

HC Player 1.2 brings focused usability, window-presentation and interface improvements.

What's new

• Folder drag-and-drop — drop a folder on the player to open supported media in natural file-name order. Folder drops are non-recursive, so subfolders are not scanned automatically.
• Start borderless — new optional setting to launch HC Player directly in borderless mode, while the existing B shortcut remains available during the session.
• Media title in the title bar — optional setting to show the media title when available, with the file name used as fallback.
• Manual update check — a new Check for updates button in Settings > About checks the latest official GitHub Release. If a newer version exists, HC Player opens that Release page in the default browser.

Interface refinements

• Compact Bar finalized at 91 DIP.
• Initial empty-state control bar reduced to 50 DIP for a tighter home screen.
• Home-screen glow is smoother and more responsive, updating at approximately 60 Hz only while the empty state is visible.
• Light-theme transport button outlines refined to a subtle #28000000 treatment.
• Added a small hover treatment to the volume icon while keeping the icon permanently visible.

HC Player 1.1

HC Player 1.1

HC Player 1.1 is a stability-focused update.

Highlights

• Improved switching between imported mpv profiles using a safe restore-before-apply transition.
• Options that exist only in the previous imported profile are restored before the next profile is applied.
• Re-selecting the already active imported profile is a no-op, avoiding unnecessary reapplication.
• HDR and non-HDR imported-profile switching was validated without changing mpv's native video pipeline semantics.

HC Player 1.0

HC Player 1.0

The first public release of HC Player.

HC Player is a native Windows 11 media player built with WinUI 3 and powered by mpv, FFmpeg and libplacebo.

Highlights

• Native Windows 11 / WinUI 3 interface
• High-quality mpv / FFmpeg playback
• Hardware-accelerated decoding
• HDR playback and tone mapping
• Dedicated Picture-in-Picture mode
• Advanced subtitle and audio controls
• Custom GLSL shaders and Anime4K support
• Playlist and resume playback
• MediaInfo integration
• Windows media controls and taskbar integration
• Custom media badges and file-type icons
• Optional yt-dlp / Deno integration

Installer

Recommended for normal Windows installation.

License

HC Player is free and open-source software licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Third-party components remain subject to their respective licenses.