Media Player Classic - Home Cinema has been designed as a simple but effective solution for viewing movies.
Seeing as how the current market is cluttered with complex media players, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema concentrates on boasting a simple interface that comes with all necessary and suffice features needed to play a video. Plus, it supports most commonly used video file formats.
Using this version of Media Player Classic can be a little tricky. For example, when we tried to open a video file, the program warned us about creating the EVR Custom renderer, due to the fact that some installed components are not supported by the media player (in other words, they are "too new"). However, the application managed to play the respective video file.
In the menu section you can access File (e.g. capture an image, save image thumbnails, save and load a subtitle, or search for one in the online database), View (e.g. playlist, shader editor, language, renderer settings, video frame, pan and scan), and others.
In the Play section you can go to a particular frame (especially useful if you're planning to split and join video clips), as well as select filters and shaders, but also configure subtitles.
In Navigate you can select audio and subtitle language, title, subtitle and chapter menu, and others. Of course, this is available for DVDs and Blu-Rays.
In Options you are able to select the file extensions associated with Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, integrate it in the Explorer context menu, configure hotkeys, enable or disable internal filters, and others.
The bottom line is that Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is a small but very powerful tool for playing video files. We strongly recommend you give it a try.
What's New in This Release:
· DVB: Show the parental rating and the content type within the EPG information when available
· Ticket #2872, Add support for DVB-T2 and improve channel switching (new options are available to have a finer control on switching process)
· Ticket #3179, DVB: Support EPG information for Freeview broadcast (UK DVB-T2)
· Updated Basque, Czech, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified / Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian translations
· Updated Little CMS to v2.5-rc1
· Updated zlib to v1.2.8
· Updated Unrar to v5.0.6
· Updated MediaInfoLib to v0.7.63
· Updated ZenLib to v0.4.29
Audio Switcher improvements:
· Ticket #1936, Improve the normalization algorithm to avoid huge volume variations
· Use percentage for the boost setting since it is easier to understand for most people
· Add a setting to change the max normalization factor and use a default max normalization factor of 4 instead of 10
· Ticket #2567, New About dialog with more detailed information and a "Copy to clipboard" feature...