# mpc-hc **Repository Path**: yangth796/mpc-hc ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: mpc-hc - **Description**: 视频播放器，从https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc导入 - **Primary Language**: C++ - **License**: GPL-3.0 - **Default Branch**: develop - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2023-02-25 - **Last Updated**: 2025-12-19 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # Media Player Classic - Home Cinema Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. It is famous and loved for its simple and effective user interface, providing an excellent user experience. It offers a huge amount of functionality. Being a DirectShow player, it also allows flexibility and extensibility through third party filters. ## Development Status The player is mature, stable, reliable, and already provides a huge amount of features. I currently do not accept any new feature requests. But that does not mean that the player is not getting any new features or other improvements. In fact, a huge amount of improvements have been made since I have taken over development in 2017. There are three primary reasons why I currently do not accept any new feature requests:
1) I and my fellow developers are too busy working on our own ideas and wishes for MPC-HC, and do not have any time or desire to work on other stuff.
2) 90% of all requests are for functionality that is already available in the player, sometimes for over a decade, but users are too lazy/stupid to have a look at the options and player menus, or do a simple Internet search for help.
3) For certain extra functionality there are already good solutions available. Such as an [equalizer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/). The internal codecs are developed in an external project ([LAV Filters](https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters)). That project is actively maintained, and MPC-HC will be updated periodically with the latest codecs. Same applies to code/files from other external projects that are used by MPC-HC, such as MediaInfo. If you are a programmer and want to help improve MPC-HC, then you can do so by submitting a pull request containing your patches. ## Overview of features A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about: * Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light)
Options > Player > User Interface
When using modern theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
* Video preview on the seekbar
Options > Player > User Interface * Play HDR video
This requires using MPC Video Renderer (included) or [madVR](http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228).
After installation these renderers can be selected here:
Options > Playback > Output
Tip: If you want an easy to use all-in-one package that contains MPC-HC and these renderers, then use [K-Lite Codec pack](http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm). * Added support for playback of many new audio and video formats:
For example HEVC (H.265) / VVC (H.266) / AV1 video, and AC4 audio.
* Improved subtitle rendering performance, and ability to use libass. Plus support for WebVTT. * Ability to search for subtitles
Press D for manual search.
Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc
* Adjust playback speed
Menu > Play > Playback rate
The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
Options > Playback > Speed step
Adjusting playback speed works best in combination with the SaneAR or MPC Audio Renderer. These two renderers have automatic pitch correction.
Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer * MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
Options > Player > History * You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel. * You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown. * You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only) * A-B repeat
You can loop a segment of a video. Press \[ and \] to set start and stop markers. * You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
Menu > View > Pan&Scan
This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below). * There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
Options > Player > Keys
Tip: there is a search box above the table. * You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
Put [yt-dlp.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases) in the MPC-HC installation folder.
Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put [ffmpeg.exe](https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/) in the MPC-HC folder.
Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
Note 1: You also need to install [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe)
Note 2: [yt-dlp nightly build](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/) (very latest version made daily) Note 3: [yt-dlp fork with Win7 support](https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases) * Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. ## System Requirements * Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11 ## License MPC-HC's code is licensed under [GPL v3](/COPYING.txt).