Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) Portable 1.6.6 is a lightweight media player with support for a variety of audio and video formats. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It is a Media Player Classic mod design for homecinema usage and looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional extra features. Media Player Classic – Home Cinema allows you to enhance, decode and accelerate a broad span of movie formats like x.264 with GPU assisted acceleration and image quality enhancing.

The WMP Classic Home Cinema player does not require many system resources than the rest of the video media players to run smoothly. This is a low PC resources windows media player that runs on slower machines with older CPUs. Modern graphics card offer the possibility to decode partially or completely a video stream using DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA), in order to reduce CPU usage dramatically. MPC-HC includes an embedded video decoder that uses this technology, to decode x.264, H.264 and VC-1 with hardly any CPU time required.

Supported Decoding: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 playback. Media Player Classic is capable of VCD, SVCD and DVD playback, without the need to install any additional software or codecs.

It has built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video and codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3 and DTS audio, and also contains an improved MPEG splitter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. A *.mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text support added. An AAC decoding filter makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in MP4.

MPC Home Cinema also has H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video formats is available in MPC HC. MPC can also use the QuickTime and the RealPlayer architectures. Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats.

Supported Video, Audio and Image File Formats: WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, MIDI, MPEG, MPG, MP2, VOB, AC3, DTS, ASX, M3U, PLS, WAX, ASF, WM, WMA, WMV, AVI, CDA, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, D2V, MP4, SWF, MOV, QT, FLV

Additional Player Features:
• Option to remove Tearing.
• Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform.
• Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer)
• Supports Subtitles.
• Playback and recording of television if a supported TV tuner is installed.
• Creation of minidump when MPC HC crashes.
• OSD (On Screen Display)
• Shuttle PN31 remote control support
• Support Multi-Monitor configuration
• Pixel shader to convert BT601 – BT701
• YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader
• Language Translations.
• All features from the Guliverkli MPC Project from Gabest.
• Remote control for Android devices.

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 (32-bit & 64-bit).

1.6.7 - 25 April 2013
Legend:
+ New
* Changed
! Fixed
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+ DVB capture: Improve channel switching
+ Subtitle downloader improvements:
- Ticket #2144, Sort by language and then by filename by default. Subtitles matching a language set as preferred in the options are now displayed first in the result list
- Ticket #2926, Double-clicking or pressing the "Enter" key will download the selected subtitle(s)
+ Ticket #2837, New INI parser: the accesses are now cached for faster settings loading/saving. Using the INI file should now be as fast as using the registry
+ Ticket #2987, Playlist improvements:
- Scroll and select the first newly added item
- Put MPC-HC on top and give the focus to the playlist after a drag and drop
* Updated Basque, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Greek, Simplified Chinese, Slovak,
Turkish and Ukrainian translations
* Updated Little CMS to v2.5 (git cde00fd)
* Updated VirtualDub to v1.10.4-test6
* Ticket #2689, Replace "On top -> Never" by "On top -> Default". In most of the cases "On top -> Default" will have the exact same behavior than "On top -> Never" but it won't try to override the "On top" flag if an external tool sets it
* Ticket #3049, Re-enable VSync by default for Windows XP users
! Fix a crash when VMR-7 (renderless) renderer failed to load
! SSA subtitles rendering: Improve error checking to avoid possible crashes when the SSA script was using obviously wrong values
! Ticket #1392, DVD subtitles: Improve rendering in case of overlapping. Ensure that both subtitles will be shown.
! Ticket #2991, Fix loading of MicroDVD subtitles
! Ticket #3001, "After Playback": Always give "Once" events a higher priority than "Always" events
! Ticket #3023, "File -> Load Subtitle" didn't work anymore for DVD
! Ticket #3045, Go to dialog: Fix frame rate detection for DVDs