MPC-HC Is Officially Dead

Switched to pot player a while back. I guess the purist will want to hold on to MPC.
 
I switched to MPC-BE a while ago and haven't looked back. MPC-HC even with this latest update doesn't handle HDR videos on a SDR monitor correctly (doesn't tonemap at all) and I guess it never will. MPC-BE has for awhile now.
 
What the hell is this MadVR everyone is raving about? I've been using MPC-HC as a stand alone and didn't miss any features thus far.

But it will take a long time for MPC-HC to die, as on some computers that I've installed many years ago the 2-3 year old versions work just as well without update. So I expect this will work for the next 3-5 years even as is, unless some radical new encoding type or container comes around.

Madvr uses your video card to make small and or crappy videos, more tolerable. Its like applying supereagle to your rom collection.
 
Sad day indeed. Hopefully we can still use it for a while and better option comes along.
 
Definitely my favorite media player out there. Super-light and highly configurable. MadVR makes it even better even if it doesn't matter that much for most setups. VLC's fine, but I've had issues with certain videos and audio formats that MPC-HC plays with ease.
Still, even with no further development I don't see myself not using the program moving forward. It's not like there have been tons up updates in recent years anyway. Short of some kind of sea change in formats or something, it should continue to work fine. There are always the offshoots like the black edition, too.
 
Just hope for no major vulnerabilities being discovered.

I always just stuck with MPC because the UI suited me. Everything else I tried I remember missing certain functions I used with MPC, things like forward/back button on mouse to change videos, clicking anywhere to pause/resume, mouse wheel to change volume on hover, double click to go full/window, easy to hide/reveal the controls in full screen, controls disappear fast on full screen toggle, non full screen does not have controls overlaying the video (WMP for example)

I remember trying VLC and it was missing some of the above. Also didn't like the look of the UI on VLC.
 
Potplayer > MPC-HC/MPC-BE > VLC

Potplayer + SVP + MadVR + powerful CPU/GPU = mindfuck
 
Long time mpc user here. Sad to see it go. Perhaps it could go commercial?
I'd toss $20-$25 in for a "registered copy".
Gonna give potplayer a try, just to see how it runs.
 
Long time mpc user here. Sad to see it go. Perhaps it could go commercial?
I'd toss $20-$25 in for a "registered copy".
Gonna give potplayer a try, just to see how it runs.

Reserved for giving $50 to the project if needed!
 
I've seen lot of people mentioning potplayer is now really good. I might have to give it a try one of these days. I looked into it a year or two ago and it looked kinda busted. Almost like a Samsung app running in Windows.
 
Well that sucks. I use MPC-HC x64 as my primary video player since the Divx days. I guess I'll use it until something breaks/changes.... I have VLC too and it's OK but I like MPC better.

by Admin Yesterday at 10:46 pm

K-Lite contains a custom build of MPC-HC that contains additional fixes and improvements compared to the officials builds. This will continue in the future. The internal codecs that MPC-HC uses are also still actively maintained.

http://codecs.forumotion.net/t2644-mpc-hc-is-dead

Which is where most people download K-Lite Codec Pack from: https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

That's good to know, thanks! I haven't messed with K-Lite in forever, as I do 99% of my own rips.
 
Well that sucks. I use MPC-HC x64 as my primary video player since the Divx days. I guess I'll use it until something breaks/changes.... I have VLC too and it's OK but I like MPC better.



That's good to know, thanks! I haven't messed with K-Lite in forever, as I do 99% of my own rips.

What do you consider the Divx days? Divx is much older than you realise.
 
Just hope for no major vulnerabilities being discovered.

I always just stuck with MPC because the UI suited me. Everything else I tried I remember missing certain functions I used with MPC, things like forward/back button on mouse to change videos, clicking anywhere to pause/resume, mouse wheel to change volume on hover, double click to go full/window, easy to hide/reveal the controls in full screen, controls disappear fast on full screen toggle, non full screen does not have controls overlaying the video (WMP for example)

I remember trying VLC and it was missing some of the above. Also didn't like the look of the UI on VLC.

Yeah, I just wasn't feeling the interface of anything else as much. MPC's UI just "made sense" to me.

Also, setting up playlists on these others seems a lot less intuitive. Ever use WMP10? Jesus Christ.

My biggest issue with MPC-HC is that "Shuffle" on the playlist is very far from random. It's annoying when you have a huge library and the same episodes keep coming up. Could never figure out how to set up playlists on VLC.
 
The only reason I use VLC over MPC-HC is MPC-HC messes too much with video card clocks even when video is paused.

I often have videos paused while I'm out doing stuff, so it's having the video card running hot for no reason.
 
I was a long time user of mpc-hc for years but switched to Potplayer some time ago cause of the improved looking interface and consistently updated. Never was interested in any other player after that.
 
I used Media Player Classic for years until development on that was stopped and I jumped to Media Player Classic Home Cinema. I'm still using MPC-HC. I have no doubt that even if no one new steps up to the plate for development that I'll probably be using it for years yet. As it is, I just checked the version of MPC-HC I was using and it is 1.4.2499. There has been no need for me to upgrade because it has been working for years. Just for the hell of it I snagged the latest version and started using it.

The original reason I started using MPC was because Microsoft went full retard with Windows Media Player 7. Myself and many others had been perfectly content with WMP 6.4 which is the interface MPC and MPC-HC is based on. It was at that time that I started looking into different media players. The main other one I remember at the time was VLC. I hated it. At that time it was a resource hog for no reason and it was extremely unstable for me. There was simply no way I was going to use it and to this day I still avoid that media player.

The simplicity of MPC-HC as well as the no-nonsense UI is why I've continued to use it. It does what I need and it does it without being obnoxious.
 
That sucks...I use it regularly as it seems to work better than VLC performance-wise on UHD content.

Completely agree, I tried using VLC for 4k and it turned out badly. This bums me out but not enough to be a contributor, just not enough time. I feel like lots of us should though, seeing it die sucks.
 
As I still heavily rely on local files (incl ISOs), I actually really enjoy VSO Player. Use it even more than VLC, MPC and Ace.
 
Wow, lots of programs being talked about here, that I haven't heard of before. How is it all these wonderful programs have been kept a secret from me until one of them closes up? I've got some programs now I need to play with.
 
What do you consider the Divx days? Divx is much older than you realise.

Sadly I'm probably older than you realize, LOL. I had a HTPC in my living room in 1997, when my friends were like...whuts an MP3?

Divx days refer back to when I was ripping my DVD's and encoding them with the ancient Divx and Xvid codecs. 1999-2003. And it took ALL NIGHT to encode a stupid movie. As soon as recordable DVD became affordable, I abandoned it. Not referring to the stupid Circuit City dvd standard.
 
Sadly I'm probably older than you realize, LOL. I had a HTPC in my living room in 1997, when my friends were like...whuts an MP3?

Divx days refer back to when I was ripping my DVD's and encoding them with the ancient Divx and Xvid codecs. 1999-2003. And it took ALL NIGHT to encode a stupid movie. As soon as recordable DVD became affordable, I abandoned it. Not referring to the stupid Circuit City dvd standard.

Memories me and my wife still talk about. Dial-up that could take all day to grab a 20 minute episode and then re-encoding could take hours and as you said, all night. I remember too how DIVX had started to muscle their way into dvd/tv/media hardware and then came MKV. I was like, what's MKV and often my then current hardware would struggle with it. Now MKV pretty much fully dominates in its robust ability for variety and DIVX is just a memory.
 
Who cares.

MPC-BE is a better fork anyway. I switched a long time ago.
 
I just used it like 30 minutes ago, so not dead yet.

I replaced it with VLC on a different box... and while that works, I so much prefer the clean look of MPC-HC
 
I just used it like 30 minutes ago, so not dead yet.

I replaced it with VLC on a different box... and while that works, I so much prefer the clean look of MPC-HC

Someone is updating it on the doom9 forum.
 
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/1.8.4

New release 1.8.4 onlly 4 days ago, actually.

MPC-HC is far, far from being dead, thankfully. Mind you that "updates" to it nowadays are not geared towards adding all sorts of new features, mods, etc, it's more that the LAV filters become updated as new ones are created and released. In that respect, yes, MPC-HC is most likely dead for new feature development but I mean really, it's pretty much perfect as it is, what the hell else can you actually do with a media player that it doesn't already do? :cigar:
 
I've been using the new Doom9 updates for months and I still think it's the best player around. The UI is clean, simple, and it simply works. Combine it with madVR and it's tough to beat.
I really wish programs like Cyberlink's PowerDVD (along with JRiver and Zoom Player) worked this well and were as streamlined.
 
PotPlayer m
I've been using the new Doom9 updates for months and I still think it's the best player around. The UI is clean, simple, and it simply works. Combine it with madVR and it's tough to beat.

PotPlayer can't be beat on featureset.

mpv is fastest.

I've had all these players installed for years, I follow all their updates, I bounce back and forth between them. MPC-HC and MPC-BE are great but PotPlayer is a thousand-tool Swiss army knife.
 
PotPlayer m


PotPlayer can't be beat on featureset.

mpv is fastest.

I've had all these players installed for years, I follow all their updates, I bounce back and forth between them. MPC-HC and MPC-BE are great but PotPlayer is a thousand-tool Swiss army knife.


You can couple MPC with avisynth so really it's about as versatile as possible.
 
by Admin Yesterday at 10:46 pm

K-Lite contains a custom build of MPC-HC that contains additional fixes and improvements compared to the officials builds. This will continue in the future. The internal codecs that MPC-HC uses are also still actively maintained.

http://codecs.forumotion.net/t2644-mpc-hc-is-dead

Which is where most people download K-Lite Codec Pack from: https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

Thanks for the info. I use k-lite and was assuming this meant I was going to have to find something else.
 
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