Media Player Classic - BE Win32/x64

[mogli]

Thanks, it's working again.

[brad86]

Any way to change the main toolbar size like in MPC-HC advanced settings ?

I tried to add DefaultToolbarSize=24 to the ini but it doesn't change. Even when set to read-only.

I find the toolbar way too small at its default.

Also, rember audio volume at startup is gone too ?

[v0lt]

Any way to change the main toolbar size like in MPC-HC advanced settings ?

I tried to add DefaultToolbarSize=24 to the ini but it doesn't change. Even when set to read-only.
This is not MPC-HC. Settings from different players may not match.

You can use the toolbar with large buttons.Examples of toolbars (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/Toolbars/).

[Klaus1189]

Updated german translation (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwBzp70DqbsN-NeKUsrorOgUedPyb_nu/view?usp=sharing) based on r5401 :)

[s0meone_new]

New text? :)

[Klaus1189]

Yes, see here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mpcbe/code/5401/tree//trunk/src/apps/mpcresources/text/mplayerc.hu.rc.txt?diff=54bb00b7c4d104415b75022c:5400

[s0meone_new]

Ok thank. :)
Hungarian translation updated.
https://www24.zippyshare.com/v/aZDTcWa0/file.html

[v0lt]

@Klaus1189, @s0meone_new
Thanks. Updated in r5402 and r5403.

[wushantao]

Simplified Chinese is coming ：）

https://fil.email/mjLJFrJn

[v0lt]

@wushantao
Thanks. Updated in r5404.

[P.J]

The aspect ratio of this video is wrong in MPC-BE but fine in MPC-HC:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FRBxetUKH1mIfZiF4aj6MTYPVdh_tfxn/view?usp=sharing

[v0lt]

@P.J
I think MPC-HC is wrong. Because LAV Filters doesn't support cropping.

MediaInfo gives out a little strange information about the aspect ratio:
Width : 720 pixels
Clean aperture width : 720 pixels
Height : 512 pixels
Clean aperture height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 5:3
Clean aperture display aspect : 16:9

[huhn]

volt can you check this file with mpc-be and internal filter with madVR. that are some chroma issues here.

[v0lt]

@huhn
There format P210 (or P216). madVR does chroma upsampling with DXVA. This is not possible for my video card, something in madVR is not working properly.

[huhn]

well the file works fine with lavfilter (ignoring the cropping) and madVR. else there wouldn't be a point in even assuming something could be done about this from your side.

and about DXVA to use DXVA for chroma on madVR you either have to hardware decode the file with DXVA native, deint the file or use image upscaling DXVA with chroma bilinear and this is working on my side too. so according to the OSD madVR is using DXVA scaling on 4:2:2.

[v0lt]

My GTX 950 cannot work with P210 format using DXVA Video Processor. The video renderer does frame cropping (not the player and not the decoder, which only transmit information about the crop). Conclusion: madVR does not work correctly.
https://i.ibb.co/jvZcbBd/DXVA-VP.png (https://ibb.co/jvZcbBd)

[huhn]

i get the same on DXVA checker with my 1060 but that doesn't change that i don't have to use DXVA2 with madVR and it still working with DXVA2 processing when lavfilter is used.

so in short again. this video works with lav filter and madVR it doesn't work with mpc-be internal filters and madVR. DXVA is not been used here and doesn't have to be used.

[Mate94]

Hey everyone!

I have just switched to BE, and frankly I have no idea what are the "good to have" settings one should set up when using BE. I am sort of looking for a bare-minimum efficiency build. I think I figured most, setting EVR-CP with DXVA-HD for both options, and Flip/FlipEX for lower iGPU usage, while setting the Audio Renderer to MPC Audio Renderer. Is there anything else that I should be mindful about? I couldn't find any useful, up-to-date recommendations when it comes to settings in BE.

This might be a long shot, but bear with me. I have a Lenovo laptop with a pre-installed programme called "Dolby Atmos for Gaming" that switches into different sound modes depending on the content present on the screen.

I have just changed from MPC-HC to MPC-BE, but now this programme does not seem to recognize that BE is actually playing a video and does not switch into a different sound mode, which previously worked with MPC-HC. Any idea what I could do to make it recognize?

Thank you for your kind and any replies! :)

[Aleksoid1978]

I think app "Dolby Atmos for Gaming" must some configure for that.

[beter]

Update translation for Chinese Traditional and Dutch

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ce1jxx

[v0lt]

@beter
Thanks. Updated in r5431.

[mogli]

MPC-BE sets a cookie when using YouTube. Is that necessary or would it be possible to delete it on exit or so?

[Aleksoid1978]

MPC-BE sets a cookie when using YouTube. Is that necessary or would it be possible to delete it on exit or so?

You can delete it self.

[TheP]

Requests/suggestions
Under Options > Player
The correct name for "title bar text" is actually "window title." It is found not just in the title bar, but also in several other places, such as on the taskbar.
Regarding the aforementioned window title, the file name that can be shown in it and on the seekbar should not show the extension as it is currently showing, also in accordance with the default Windows settings. Therefore, instead of, for example, "Song File.mp3" and "Movie File.mp4" being the window titles, they should be just "Song File" and just "Movie File," perhaps with an option under Options to show or not the extension (if you can't check the user's Windows Explorer setting for that). Apps generally don't show extensions to the end user, logically. This would contribute a slight bit to clean up the player and make it friendlier.
Again regarding the window title, it's absurd to see indicated on it if my system is 64-bit or 32-bit, being a technical aspect that has no place in a window title. I see that it is part of the program name, that is, for example, "Media Player Classic Black Edition x64 - v1.5.4 ." If you really want that name for the end user, whatever (but compare it to popular programs, they aren't named like that in window titles)... What matters is: I wish for an option to not display the whole "- MPC-BE x64 - v1.5.4" aspect (the program name) on the window title. For example, a simple checkbox saying "☑ Show program name in window title". This point together with my previous point would change the windows titles from "Song File.mp3 - MPC-BE x64 - v1.5.4" to simply and only "Song File."
The current time and the duration of the file, shown on the bottom right corner, for example, as "00:02:12 / 00:06:21," should not show leading zeros. That is, the example shown should say "2:12 / 6:21" only. (The file is not hours long.) It would contribute to a cleaner program.
Now, there's a new section, Options dialog > Player > Interface, but you forgot to increase the height of the Options dialog accordingly, in order to spare the left pane list from overflowing, that is, in order to spare it from having its new scrollbar, leaving the bottom options Miscellaneous out of view (definitely confusing users). You see, the Options dialog had the exact dimensions in terms of height and width to fit the left list on it, but not anymore with the addition of Interface, pushing Miscellaneous out of view. At least, from the perspective of my system. It's pretty simple, if you can understand it.

Also, I'm very relieved that the new dark menu can be turned off. A lot of users wisely use something called "visual styles" on their systems (such as this (https://www.deviantart.com/djabytown/art/Dark-Agility-Visual-Style-148691785) one, or this (https://www.deviantart.com/yorgash/art/League-of-Legends-Forum-VS-for-8-8-1-471838823) one, or this (https://www.deviantart.com/k-johnson/art/Clearscreen-Sharp-for-Vista-126471800) one, or so many others) and the new dark menu theme clashes awfully with our visual styles, taking their place, replacing them. Only the default look makes use of the system's visual style, thus, I'm immediately disabling the new dark theme, and continuing to use MY visual style of choice.

I certainly have more important things to note, but I will experiment seeing the result of these ones first.
And than you for the program, regardless of its characteristics being one way or another.

[huhn]

My GTX 950 cannot work with P210 format using DXVA Video Processor. The video renderer does frame cropping (not the player and not the decoder, which only transmit information about the crop). Conclusion: madVR does not work correctly.

to give you an update after having a talk with madshi the issue should be madVR doing the cropping wrong and not DXVA2 but MPCVR could deinterlace the video just as good as madVR. madVR is nearly for sure just converting the image to an DXVA2 complain format according to other information from him hardware deint seems to do the best work with 4:2:0.

pretty sure it's not worth the dev time to fix this for a very lower number of files.
maybe don't accept a DXVA2 incompatible colorspace when the stream is interlaced EVR doesn't accept P210 and get's YUY2 which works just fine.

[v0lt]

MPC-BE 1.5.5 (build 5433) stable (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/MPC-BE/Release%20builds/1.5.5/) (SF.net) with digital signature.

MPC-BE Nightly builds: main file store (https://yadi.sk/d/hlf1lfC8mKU58), alternative 1 (https://yadi.sk/d/AjAXDDHtHRIELg), alternative 2 (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/V1rp/2iqNDT5Rx)
Also new and old versions can be found on VideoHelp.com (https://www.videohelp.com/software/MPC-BE).

[Klaus1189]

Thank you very much for both MPC-BE 1.5.5 and MPC Video Renderer v0.4.9.1460 :)

[digi340]

Hi to all. How to install standalone filter for MPC-BE and it is necessary?Thanks.

[v0lt]

MPC Video Renderer 0.4.9.1460 (https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/VideoRenderer/releases/tag/0.4.9)
Description (https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/VideoRenderer/blob/0.4.9/Readme.md)

[v0lt]

How to install standalone filter for MPC-BE and it is necessary?
The player does not need standalone filters, which are already present in it.

To register a DirectShow filter in the system, use the following command:
regsvr32.exe filter_file_name.ax

[chros]

Thank you very much for both MPC-BE 1.5.5 and MPC Video Renderer v0.4.9.1460 :)
Thanks guys for both!

Small requests for mpc-vr:
- can you modify the color of statistic from white to e.g. grey?
- can you add lanczos for chroma upscaling as well?

I just tried out this (and the prev release as well), but I got massive tearing on the Secondary monitor (LG TV) at 23p/24p with 23p content. (see my details in my signature)
All is working fine now (although I had upgraded the video card driver as well in the meantime), no more tearing. :)
Exclusive mode is working fine as well, and switching to it is way more faster than with madvr (also no black screen)!
Setting it to 16bit float we can get 10 bit output with d3d11native in FSW and FSE. Really nice!

Overall: the player is way more snappier with mpc-vr than with madvr :) Good job!

HDR10 output would be really useful via Win10 API :)

[clsid]

Can you guys add a configuration entrypoint to MPCVR to open settings through command line?
rundll32.exe mpcvideorenderer.ax,configure

example code (https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/blob/master/decoder/LAVVideo/dllmain.cpp#L88)

[v0lt]

- can you modify the color of statistic from white to e.g. grey?
Why is this necessary in practice?
- can you add lanczos for chroma upscaling as well?
Not planned. Because for chroma upscaling this does not make any visible difference in comparison with bicubic.

@clsid
Thank. I'll see.

[arapkadri]

great video player
Thanks to all those who worked

[Fred]

Cannot select shaders. List remains empty. With MPC-HC I can use the shader function without errors. What is the difference between the shaders?

Thanks!

[v0lt]

@Fred
1. Reinstall the player.
2. Remove Shaders and Shaders11 folders in %APPDATA%\MPC-BE\
3. Start the player.
4. All standard shaders will be restored.

[chros]

Why is this necessary in practice?
It's blindingly white, especially when font size is large :)

[Fred]

1. Reinstall the player.
2. Remove Shaders and Shaders11 folders in %APPDATA%\MPC-BE\
3. Start the player.
4. All standard shaders will be restored.
Thanks, it works!
Use the portable version. Inspired by your note, I copied the shaders directories from the program folder to %APPDATA%\MPC-BE\.

[chros]

MPC-BE 1.5.5 (build 5433) stable (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/files/MPC-BE/Release%20builds/1.5.5/) (SF.net) with digital signature.
I just noticed a bug: external subs will not get selected by default, only internal ones. It worked fine before this stable release and it works fine in MPC-HC with similar settings.

Example:
foo.mkv
foo.srt
foo.EN.srt
foo.GE.srt

Related settings:
- settings is saved into "ini" file
- Playback -> Default track preference is checked
-- Subtitles: en eng
- Subtitles:
-- Subtitle renderer: internal subtitle renderer
-- Auto load paths: .;.\subtitles;.\subs;.\sub;d:\subtitles;d:\subtitles\series
-- Prefer external subtitles over embedded subtitles is checked

So, the external "foo.EN.srt" subtitle should be selected by default.

Note, I use Lav splitter and Lav audio/video decoders.

Edit: b5347 works fine.

[Aleksoid1978]

I just noticed a bug: external subs will not get selected by default, only internal ones. It worked fine before this stable release and it works fine in MPC-HC with similar settings.

Example:
foo.mkv
foo.srt
foo.EN.srt
foo.GE.srt

Related settings:
- settings is saved into "ini" file
- Playback -> Default track preference is checked
-- Subtitles: en eng
- Subtitles:
-- Subtitle renderer: internal subtitle renderer
-- Auto load paths: .;.\subtitles;.\subs;.\sub;d:\subtitles;d:\subtitles\series
-- Prefer external subtitles over embedded subtitles is checked

So, the external "foo.EN.srt" subtitle should be selected by default.

Note, I use Lav splitter and Lav audio/video decoders.

Edit: b5347 works fine.

Thanks - fixed.

[chros]

Thanks - fixed.
Thanks, it's fixed in the fresh b5442.

[CZ Eddie]

Is there a way to make MPC-BE or MPC-HC jump to a certain time spot?
And I don't just mean to the exact second, but even more accurate than that. Such as a specific frame.
Like, jump to 21:14:07 (21 minutes, 14 seconds, 7 whatever-it-is).
I want to do this so I can compare video quality of specific shots while trying out different filter settings.

[huhn]

you go to the frame in question pause and:
navigate -> "go to" the current frame should be highlighted just control + c
if you want to go to the same frame again just navigate -> "go to" control +v enter.

doesn't properly work with filters that need multiply frames to work correctly like hardware deint.

[butterw2]

Shortcut For Go To is 'CTRL-G' in mpc-hc/be.

Though this may work well enough for your purpose, MS Directshow seeking is not guaranteed to be frame accurate.

An alternative would be to open the video frame through an Avisynth script.

[chros]

Or you can pick a keyframe for comparison, so you can jump to the exact frame all the time (SHIFT+left/right).

[CZ Eddie]

I couldn't seem to get the CTRL+C or Shift+Left/Right to work with my version of WMC-BE.

But the CTRL+G is a nice feature. Thanks for showing it to me, butterw2.
Not sure if it's 100% perfect but it's at least 99% perfect.
When comparing star movement in two different screenshots of the same frame and also of the same millisecond (tried both individually), it seems to be *just barely* off.
I'll research the avisynth script if necessary.
https://i.ibb.co/rQkXQt2/Untitled.jpg

[Klaus1189]

@CZ Eddie: Please download latest 1.5.5 stable of MPC-BE and it is not called WMC-BE ;)

[chros]

:) Latest stable has a bug, use this one instead:
Thanks, it's fixed in the fresh b5442.

[CZ Eddie]

Sorry, I meant MCE-BE

lol

Seems I'm already on 1.5.5.

[butterw2]

I would expect CTRL+G to be frame accurate on x264 keyframes in practice.

Shift-Right/Left keyframe seeking works for me on mpc-be v1.5.4

I also have the following option checked (not sure what it does, probably just a speedup)
mpc-hc/be Options: Misc. > Fast Seek (on keyframes)