Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) - v1.7.13

[vivan]

I was hoping a shorcut key (user-customized) could be added to heavily blur or darken (overlay) a certain section of the screen as well as mute the player.Well, you can blur with shaders, shaders don't affect subtitles and you can switch shaders with shortcut keys, so...

Simple 3x3 blur shader (based on sharpen shader): http://pastebin.com/ACqLgtLX (save as Blur.hlsl and put into Shaders dir).
Open Shaders in mpc-hc, save empty preset. Then add lots of new Blur shader (since 3x3 blur is not strong enough) and save it as another shader preset.
Now set "Next Shader Preset" shortcut in Keys and you're done.

[Blackfyre]

Well, you can blur with shaders, shaders don't affect subtitles and you can switch shaders with shortcut keys, so...

Simple 3x3 blur shader (based on sharpen shader): http://pastebin.com/ACqLgtLX (save as Blur.hlsl and put into Shaders dir).
Open Shaders in mpc-hc, save empty preset. Then add lots of new Blur shader (since 3x3 blur is not strong enough) and save it as another shader preset.
Now set "Next Shader Preset" shortcut in Keys and you're done.

That's a great idea. Thanks I already set it up. But it's extremely heavy on performance. Running SVP with my custom settings, as well as Madvr with custom higher quality settings and applying 20x blur and darkening results in a massive drop in frames.

Still thank you and I'll be using this method until such feature is added (whenever that may be). Maybe I could edit the code for blur.hlsl to make it stronger.

[madshi]

You can use the blur method from LumaSharpen which should be quite a bit faster.

[vivan]

Here's 2-pass blur shader with much larger radius (16), it should be much faster at the same strength.
BlurX http://pastebin.com/pcbjTm8v
BlurY http://pastebin.com/vgh11XM2

[rodrigo081089]

Today i was trying to watch a movie, but when i opened the mpc it says the direct access wasnt there. So i installed it again and i had the same problem.

Now i can see in the malwarebytes the mpc is in quarantine and it says ransom.filelocker.

Anyone else have this problem?




Thanks

[kuchikirukia]

Today i was trying to watch a movie, but when i opened the mpc it says the direct access wasnt there. So i installed it again and i had the same problem.

Now i can see in the malwarebytes the mpc is in quarantine and it says ransom.filelocker.

Anyone else have this problem?


Looks like Malwarebytes just-released definitions (1-02-2016) are flagging MPC-HC as ransomware. Considering 1.7.10 has been released since November and nobody has had a problem with it encrypting all their files, I'm going to hazard the guess that it's just a false positive.
It flags mine which I got right off the MPC-HC site a couple months ago, so it's not even a problem with any codec pack site (CCCP or K-lite) going rogue. It's flagging the legit MPC-HC as malware.

Just take it out of quarantine and whitelist it for now.

Why are you even running Malwarebytes' real-time checker?

[vBm]

Today i was trying to watch a movie, but when i opened the mpc it says the direct access wasnt there. So i installed it again and i had the same problem.

Now i can see in the malwarebytes the mpc is in quarantine and it says ransom.filelocker.

Anyone else have this problem?
Thanks
It's a false positive and it's already fixed by MBAM team. Just update to their latest db. More info here. (https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/176925-media-player-classic-home-cinema-being-detected-as-ransomfilelocker/)

[rodrigo081089]

Looks like Malwarebytes just-released definitions (1-02-2016) are flagging MPC-HC as ransomware. Considering 1.7.10 has been released since November and nobody has had a problem with it encrypting all their files, I'm going to hazard the guess that it's just a false positive.
It flags mine which I got right off the MPC-HC site a couple months ago, so it's not even a problem with any codec pack site (CCCP or K-lite) going rogue. It's flagging the legit MPC-HC as malware.

Just take it out of quarantine and whitelist it for now.

Why are you even running Malwarebytes' real-time checker?

It's a false positive and it's already fixed by MBAM team. Just update to their latest db. More info here. (https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/176925-media-player-classic-home-cinema-being-detected-as-ransomfilelocker/)

Thanks to both

[Blackfyre]

Here's 2-pass blur shader with much larger radius (16), it should be much faster at the same strength.
BlurX http://pastebin.com/pcbjTm8v
BlurY http://pastebin.com/vgh11XM2

Thanks a lot for this, it helped a lot.

If there's a way to make the subtitles not get affected by the blur/darken/grayscale effect that I've added, that would be great.

Aka subtitles not affected by shaders and are rendered on top of the shaders (not under them).

[raymondjpg]

Using latest versions of madVR 89.19 and Emby for WMC (Windows 7 Professional). With MPC-HC 1.7.10 after refresh rate switching by madVR (windowed overlay mode) then video hangs and does not play. Video will play after closing then re-starting MPC.

Refresh rate switching when using MPC-HC 1.7.9 works with video playing fine after refresh rate switching.

Has anyone else seen this, better still have a solution for it? I have also posted this in the madVR forum, but I suspect it is more of an issue with the latest version of MPC-HC than madVR

[Selur]

Small feature request: Would be nice if one could set a higher default Auto Zoom than 200%.

[v0lt]

@Selur
May be
Auto-zoom = Auto fit
Auto fit factor = 80...100 %
?

[stranno]

Is there any way to stream Youtube to MPC-HC? I've seen the latest VP9 change and i have a low-end machine where this could help with Youtube VP9 stream (that is waaay lighter than h264 but not accelerated).

[LigH]

Google takes some measures to protect their content from simple third-party access, but there are some downloader tools which are able to select substreams of MPEG DASH (adaptive stream selection for HD content). But they will first download the content. Then you can play it from your local disk. Recommendable are e.g. the "Complete YouTube Saver" Firefox plugin, or youtube-dl as separate CLI application.

[stranno]

Google takes some measures to protect their content from simple third-party access, but there are some downloader tools which are able to select substreams of MPEG DASH (adaptive stream selection for HD content). But they will first download the content. Then you can play it from your local disk. Recommendable are e.g. the "Complete YouTube Saver" Firefox plugin, or youtube-dl as separate CLI application.
I see, i thought there was an app to pipe the video directly to MPC.

I think SMplayer is able to stream Youtube content, but maybe not the dash video file (not 1080 or 60fps)

I can download the videos using JDownloader (it use FFMPEG to mux the dash parts) but i wanted to stream them.

[ts1]

stranno
livestreamer + mpc-hc (but only h.264 I think) or youtube-dl + mpv.

[stranno]

stranno
livestreamer + mpc-hc (but only h.264 I think) or youtube-dl + mpv.
It seems livestreamer is only capable to stream non-dash streams, limited to 720p 30fps :-/

I havent tested MPV yet but it could handle it, just not with the DXVA2 VP9 decoding.

[MokrySedeS]

Try SVPtube.

[stranno]

Try SVPtube.
I didnt know that software, it works almost perfect.

Almost because Youtube-DL allow to choose whatever audio/video stream you want. You can mix the lowest bitrate sound stream with the best video-stream (vp9, coz h264 is amazingly bad optimized in terms of quality/bitrate).

I havent seen this feature in SVPtube.

[Selur]

@v0lt:ahh,... didn't know what Auto-fit was meant to do. :)

[cascardian]

Hello,

Just two quick questions: Will there be another standalone release of Sanear Audio Renderer (https://github.com/alexmarsev/sanear)? It's still being worked on, right?

Thank you.

[ryrynz]

Hello,

Just two quick questions: Will there be another standalone release of Sanear Audio Renderer (https://github.com/alexmarsev/sanear)? It's still being worked on, right?

Thank you.

Alex is just taking a break.

[wanezhiling]

http://i.imgur.com/CtGo3va.gif

I think ISR should be automatically used again when changing video renderer from vanilla EVR to EVR-CP.:)

[yonta]

Is there any way to stream Youtube to MPC-HC? I've seen the latest VP9 change and i have a low-end machine where this could help with Youtube VP9 stream (that is waaay lighter than h264 but not accelerated).

Try this;
http://ys.3dyd.com/home/

[stranno]

Try this;
http://ys.3dyd.com/home/
It works great and i can configure each audio/video stream. The only problem, it is a bit slow opening the stream. SVPtube works way faster.

[nijiko]

LAV supported H264/MVC from 67.54 for a few days, why MPCHC nightly cooperate with that so slowly? Half dead?

[huhn]

it's a test build claim down.

and people have problem with it!

[madshi]

Exactly, it's a very first test build, with some more changes and improvements expected soon. Let's wait until the dust settles before expecting it to be included in media players.

[kasper93]

LAV supported H264/MVC from 67.54 for a few days, why MPCHC nightly cooperate with that so slowly? Half dead?

For no more than two day exactly. By "so slowly" you mean what? We had LAV update on Friday which was merely 4 days ago. We don't want and will not incorporate changes few minutes after they appear. Because everyone make mistakes and little buffer between incorporating new LAV into MPC-HC is to avoid importing possible bugs, which are likely to be fixed soon after. Furthermore we will not generate MPC-HC nightly only because LAV Filters had a change. This is not how it works. LAV Filters are and will be updated in batches. In fact this is already an exception that thirdparty library is used in non-stable version.

Also I'm tired of people ranting about random things for no apparent reason without actually trying to help or contribute anything to make the project better. We will not respond to hostile comments.

[LogicDeLuxe]

When I use "Sync Renderer", the picture is not updated when navigating a DVD still menu, ie. I can still click the buttons, but the highlight is missing when hovering over them. This is especially annoying when using a keyboard to navigate.
This does not happen with "Enhanced Video Renderer".
Is this a known bug?
It is reproducible on my example image (40 MB): http://abmischung.de/files/www.abmischung.de_demo_v2.0.7z
Other than that, MPC runs fine as always.

I'm using Windows 10 x64. MPC is 1.7.10.40 (847313a) from K-Lite Codec Pack 11.8.0.

[clsid]

The highlights are also working with EVR-CP in latest nightly. So, yes, it must be a bug in EVR Sync.

[nijiko]

For no more than two day exactly. By "so slowly" you mean what? We had LAV update on Friday which was merely 4 days ago. We don't want and will not incorporate changes few minutes after they appear. Because everyone make mistakes and little buffer between incorporating new LAV into MPC-HC is to avoid importing possible bugs, which are likely to be fixed soon after. Furthermore we will not generate MPC-HC nightly only because LAV Filters had a change. This is not how it works. LAV Filters are and will be updated in batches. In fact this is already an exception that thirdparty library is used in non-stable version.

Also I'm tired of people ranting about random things for no apparent reason without actually trying to help or contribute anything to make the project better. We will not respond to hostile comments.

First of all, NIGHTLY is the meaning of NON-stable, instead of NON-up-to-date in every days/nights. All testers know nightly is meaning of NEWEST.
"So slow" is said because whole last year, NIGHTLY builds had became MONTHLY builds. NIGHTLY published at least by half a month.

[Nullack]

Im not gunna comment on MPC-HC vs MPC-BE theyre both cool projects, but I will say if nightly builds are important to you nijiko then MPC-BE have a good setup for nightly builds and they even digitally sign their nightly binaries too.

[nijiko]

Im not gunna comment on MPC-HC vs MPC-BE theyre both cool projects, but I will say if nightly builds are important to you nijiko then MPC-BE have a good setup for nightly builds and they even digitally sign their nightly binaries too.

Maybe you haven't seen. Ever, mpc-hc's nightly were built nightly on such xvidvideo.ru, xhmikosr's site and etc. But later, it was being cool as you see.

[rock]

hi, I have problem when try creating a new ticket on trac, "Submission rejected as potential spam" and then "Trac thinks your submission might be Spam. To prove otherwise please provide a response to the following." I wait for captcha but doesn't show anything.

edit:
(wanted to post this)
ISR: subtitle doesn't move to bottom when using madVR

my video res 832x352, play on my desktop resolution 1366x768

using madVR with zoom control -> move subtitles -> to bottom of screen /window enabled

using ISR (MPC-HC latest nightly) : http://i.imgur.com/MI0OAO9.jpg
using XySubFilter (latest beta) : http://i.imgur.com/eNbGuT7.jpg

if more info needed, let me know. thanks :)

[StainlessS]

System Requirements

An SSE capable CPU
Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 32-bit/64-bit


- Requires Windows Vista or newer


Might also want to give link for final version supporting XP.

[clsid]

MPC-HC still works on XP. The Vista requirement is only for certain optional functionality such as WASAPI output of the internal audio renderer.

[vBm]

@StainlessS: It's clearly stated where that requirement is present. @clsid already explained it.


* Completely new Internal Audio Renderer:
- Requires Windows Vista or newer


* means new item and - means new subitem

Once and IF XP support gets dropped, everyone will be notified via our website. We might even create new branch that will remain there for archive purposes, just like we have the legacy one.

[StainlessS]

OK, I stand corrected, many thanks for your continued support.

[GCRaistlin]

YADIF deinterlacing is the only way to get progressive video from natively interlaced sources in a number of cases. On the other hand, with telecined sources it gives worse results than madVR's film mode. So it would be nice to have a way to enable YADIF deinterlacing for the current MPC-HC session via command line switch.

[Jeff R 1]

The forced French subtitles in the Blu-ray movie "The Walk" are not displayed even though "Forced Subtitles (eng) (auto)" has been ticked.
There are two other subtitle choices in English (pgs)
Choosing either one of those will bring up subtitles, but now they are displayed all the time, even when they are speaking English.
Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing so I can get just the forced English subtitle track ?
Most of the time I can get only the English forced track, but the odd movie (like this one), the subs show up all the time no matter what track I choose.
I'm not sure what info to give, but I'll begin with these two screen shots.
Thanks !

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj623/jeffr15/Subtitles_zpsppspvmmu.png (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/jeffr15/media/Subtitles_zpsppspvmmu.png.html)

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj623/jeffr15/64%20Bit_zpsb255xyvi.png (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/jeffr15/media/64%20Bit_zpsb255xyvi.png.html)

[sneaker_ger]

Go Play->Filters->LAV Splitter and tick "Deliver only forced subtitles". Then try both tracks again. You may need to deactivate that option again for other movies.

[Jeff R 1]

Go Play->Filters->LAV Splitter and tick "Deliver only forced subtitles". Then try both tracks again. You may need to deactivate that option again for other movies.
Hey, great stuff, :) that worked !
Much appreciated, thank you !
With UHD Blu-ray just around the corner, I'm hoping to use MPC-HC for that.
My Sony 4K projector has no frame interpolation at 4K, so I have to use the computer.
This assumes that there will be a reader that can deal with UHD Blu-ray and that James over at Sly Soft can get around AACS 2 so a free player can be used.

[Nullack]

Sadly, until full bluray menu support is added to FOSS players, forced subtitles will always be hit and miss because in some cases it relies on the menu data for forced subs. Its good in this case you've fixed it, but it wont always work out that way.

MPC-BE/HC along with lav filters and madVR works really well with MAIN 10 HEVC full hardware acceleration at 127 Mbps even at 60 FPS in IHD 4K, so thats ready for UHD Bluray. HDR is kinda an evolving thing and having the right display is a big part of that.

[ParkerLewis]

Hi all,

Long time fan and user of MPC-HC here.

My audio setup is a simple 2.1 plugged on the jack output of my motherboard integrated sound chipset (standard HD Realtek, MB is an Asus Z97-A). Everything has been perfect for years as-is.

Among a few hundred mkvs with DTS/DTS-HD/etc, I have a few rare ones with DTS-ES audio. They all used to play fine.

However, I have noticed that now DTS-ES audio isn't played properly (mainly voices are missing / very low), which sounds like a downmixing issue. And indeed, I do know a way to fix this : I just have to activate downmixing to stereo in MPC-HC's audio decoder options. Yet I don't know if this is ideal and more importantly doesn't explain why I am suddenly needing to select this option.
Facts are :

- up til now, I never needed to activate this option (thus leaving the downmixing to the integrated chipset and/or its driver), and my audio setup always did the job (even with DTS-ES files). I can't say for sure when/what caused the downmixing not to work anymore for DTS-ES files, as this is not a very common format thus I am quite rarely playing such a file. I can only hint that I just recently upgraded my Win7 Pro 64bits to Win10 Pro 64bits, but this also totally might not be related and maybe simply started to happen the last time I updated MPC-HC (or one of the previous times : it very well may have been a year since I last played such a file before today).

- so I have now activated audio downmixing to stereo inside MPC-HC as this is the solution I've found to make DTS-ES play correctly.

(- just in case / for the record, VLC plays these files totally fine)

And my questions :

- do you have any idea what could have caused this change (from playing DTS-ES files correctly to, well, not) ?

- is there any other way to correct this ?

- is downmixing by MPC-HC the best way to go (quality-wise), or should I revert to letting my chipset/driver do the job (DTS-ES files excepted of course) ?

I am running MPC-HC (64-bit) 1.7.10 (d911f14) which should be the latest stable release at time of writing.

Thanks for your help and advice.

[Nullack]

I wouldve thought youd be better off getting the audio out through HDMI on your PC but anyway

As to who does the downmixing to make it 2.1 for your setup, well you have options in the chain as to where that happens. Personally I downmix within LAV filters via the audio configuration GUI for LAV. Id just set it via lav audio to downmix to stereo including a LFE and dont mix stereo sources, with clipping protection on. Should be fine and has been for me. If not, disable the MPC-HC internal fav filters and try the currently nightly LAV filters build as external filters. Ive ran nightly lav filters for sometime without much problem at all, its pretty robust.

[Jeff R 1]

Sadly, until full bluray menu support is added to FOSS players, forced subtitles will always be hit and miss because in some cases it relies on the menu data for forced subs. Its good in this case you've fixed it, but it wont always work out that way.

MPC-BE/HC along with lav filters and madVR works really well with MAIN 10 HEVC full hardware acceleration at 127 Mbps even at 60 FPS in IHD 4K, so thats ready for UHD Bluray. HDR is kinda an evolving thing and having the right display is a big part of that.
Yeah, but I've always been able to have forced subtitles.
You're right though, it can be a big guessing game as to which sub track is the forced one _ sometime MPC/LAV gets it right and some times not.
And like this movie, as well as a few others, forced subs are in with the English track and I find that very annoying, so hopefully the fix works all the time.

[ParkerLewis]

I wouldve thought youd be better off getting the audio out through HDMI on your PC but anyway

Why ?

Also that doesn't make sense. My HDMI goes to my screens, only one of which is audio equipped (because it happens to be a TV that I never use for anything else than PC display). Are you saying I should plug my 2.1 to the TV instead ?

As to who does the downmixing to make it 2.1 for your setup, well you have options in the chain as to where that happens. Personally I downmix within LAV filters via the audio configuration GUI for LAV. Id just set it via lav audio to downmix to stereo including a LFE and dont mix stereo sources, with clipping protection on. Should be fine and has been for me. If not, disable the MPC-HC internal fav filters and try the currently nightly LAV filters build as external filters. Ive ran nightly lav filters for sometime without much problem at all, its pretty robust.

I feel like there's a misunderstanding somewhere because I did say I was perfectly aware I could do the downmixing anywhere ;).

I just want to know if there are any pitfalls doing it one way or another (if you have no idea that's totally fine, but that's what I want to know, and why I am posting here). So if anyone has informed knwoledge in this area... :)

[Nullack]

Generally hdmi passthrough is optimal because it preserves the digital signal to be decoded by better quality digital to audio dacs and other parts of the electronics for higher fidelity. Also hdmi has the bandwidth to carry dts hd ma and Dolby true hd amongst other formats which other digital audio connectors cant do such as tos link. Generally using the onboard audio from the morherboard with its crappy dacs and signal path to then feed analogue audio to amps results in poor sound. I still use downmixing though because my current dac cant do some of the higher end formats so in those cases I need to convert it.

[ParkerLewis]

OK, but this HDMI generality does not apply to me. My setup is this : PC -> 2.1 through MB chipset jacks. There is no HDMI here, and my 2.1 is from the last century (literally :)).

Still interested :

- on whether LAV downmixing is preferrable to letting the audio chipset and drivers do it.
- on what could have caused my setup to stop downmixing DTS-ES correctly, if anyone has an idea.