MPC-HC issues on Windows 10

[pinkish]

I've recently moved from Windows 7 to 10 and I've been having some problems with MPC-HC. The hardware is the same, the Windows was a clean install, not an upgrade.

On Win 7 I had MPC-HC x64 + MadVR + Haali. I read that Haali was outdated so I didn't install it on Win 10.

I used to start a video, drag'n'drop the srt file to the MPC-HC window and it was loaded. The issue I have on Win 10 is when I pause the video for a longer time (10-20 minutes). When I resume playback, it gets reloaded in the window and the subtitles are gone, I need to drag'n'drop them again to the MPC-HC window.

I thought this was caused somehow by Haali not being installed. I installed Haali now and it's not working at all. I don't see the icon in the systray and it's like it hasn't even been installed.

So there are 2 issues, but basically I would like to fix the first one.

Thanks!

[lvqcl]

Advanced setting "ReloadAfterLongPause": you can adjust its value or disable it completely.

[pinkish]

Advanced setting "ReloadAfterLongPause": you can adjust its value or disable it completely.

Thank you very much, I didn't know of this setting. It must be because of the newer version of MPC-HC.

What should I do about Haali? Try to make it work or uninstall it?

[pinkish]

I disabled Matroska in MPC-HC => Internal Filters -> Source Filters and Haali now works!

[lvqcl]

IIRC Haali filters are old, and outdated. For example you won't be able to play HEVC video if you use Haali.

[pinkish]

IIRC Haali filters are old, and outdated. For example you won't be able to play HEVC video if you use Haali.

It's so weird that you said that. I just tried to play a HEVC video right now and I couldn't do it with Haali (I only had audio in MPC-HC). But it was working with Haali on Windows 7 just a few weeks ago!

Why would that be?

[Sunspark]

Use LAV filters instead of Haali on Windows 10.

[filler56789]

It's so weird that you said that. I just tried to play a HEVC video right now and I couldn't do it with Haali (I only had audio in MPC-HC). But it was working with Haali on Windows 7 just a few weeks ago!

Why would that be?

Windows 10 is so different internally that it may have broken Haali Splitter's (full) functionality.

Just as an example, the MPEG-2 decoder DScaler 5 works well with Windows XP, but becomes buggy or glitchy with Windows 7.

[pinkish]

Use LAV filters instead of Haali on Windows 10.

Yes, I'll stick to the built-in filters of MPC-HC, which are LAV filters.

Windows 10 is so different internally that it may have broken Haali Splitter's (full) functionality.

Thank you for this explanation, it makes total sense!

[bbildman]

For a while now, my toolbar has gone missing, only the standard black and white one is shown, I have downloaded the BMP of the one I like, placed it in the MPC-HC folder, to no avail, can someone help me??

[v0lt]

@bbildman
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.5.3
Old toolbar skins are no longer supported.

[clsid]

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