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  [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2026-07-21 08:33 -0500
    Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2026-07-22 06:10 -0700
      Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-22 15:52 +0200
        Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-22 22:11 +0800
        Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-22 16:15 +0200
        Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "Allan Higdon" <allanh@vivaldi.net> - 2026-07-22 09:46 -0500
        Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 06:58 +0700
          Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2026-07-23 03:38 -0700
        Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2026-07-23 03:37 -0700
      Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-22 16:15 +0200
    Re: [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4 "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-07-22 21:54 +0800

#380119 — [Update] Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 2.7.4

"Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a lightweight player with broad format support.
It includes keyboard shortcuts, audio/video controls, a web interface for remote control and more.
The program is derived from Media Player Classic (MPC), a media player that mimics the interface of Windows Media Player 6.4, and adds support for EVR rendering, H.264 and VC-1 video hardware acceleration, bugfixes, additional languages, decoders and more."

https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2054

Home Page
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/

Release Notes
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/latest

Portable Downloads
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/download/2.7.4/MPC-HC.2.7.4.x64.zip
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/download/2.7.4/MPC-HC.2.7.4.x86.exe

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#380124

Allan Higdon wrote:
> "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a lightweight player
> with broad format support.
> It includes keyboard shortcuts, audio/video controls, a web interface
> for remote control and more.
> The program is derived from Media Player Classic (MPC), a media player
> that mimics the interface of Windows Media Player 6.4, and adds support
> for EVR rendering, H.264 and VC-1 video hardware acceleration, bugfixes,
> additional languages, decoders and more."
> 
> https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2054
> 
> Home Page
> https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/
> 
> Release Notes
> https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/latest
> 
> Portable Downloads
> https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/download/2.7.4/MPC-
> HC.2.7.4.x64.zip
> https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/download/2.7.4/MPC-
> HC.2.7.4.x86.exe

Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.

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#380125

On 22/07/2026 15:10, John C. wrote:

> 
> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.
> 

John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?

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#380127

On 7/22/2026 9:52 PM, occam wrote:
> 
> John, I know that you're the resident retro 
> guy, but what's wrong with VLC?


Not answering the question for another:

The only reason to use VLC is Linux? :)



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#380129

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:52:48 +0200, occam wrote:

> John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?

It's too flashy. (-;

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#380130

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:52:48 -0500, occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:

> On 22/07/2026 15:10, John C. wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.
>>
>
> John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?
>

I've posted before that I still use VLC, mainly for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org using the VLSub extension.
It does that very well.

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#380131

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:52:48 +0200, occam wrote:
> On 22/07/2026 15:10, John C. wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.
>> 
> 
> John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?

Cross platform softwares are made to be usable on any OS.
But that also restrict them for using OS specific features.
IOTW, they're not well made for specific OS.

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#380133

JJ wrote:
> occam wrote:
>> John C. wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.
>>
>> John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?
> 
> Cross platform softwares are made to be usable on any OS.
> But that also restrict them for using OS specific features.
> IOTW, they're not well made for specific OS.

Exactly.

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#380132

occam wrote:
> John C. wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.
> 
> John, I know that you're the resident retro guy, but what's wrong with VLC?

When I was younger and doing the P90 fitness program (not the P90X, just
the P90), I played the workouts in VLC.

VLC works, but it locked up on me a few times. MPC-HC has never done that.

Other than that, I just don't like VLC's UI as much as I do MPC-HC's.
This is probably because VLC is designed for several OSes.

However, since my plan is to dual-boot Linux Mint on my W10 Pro system
so that I can phase myself into escaping Windows, I'll probably have to
go with VLC in the long run.

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#380128

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:10:40 -0700, John C. wrote:

> Thanks, Allan. This is my video player of choice.

Same here, but UniGetUI already warned me about the update and installed
it.

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#380126

On 7/21/2026 9:33 PM, Allan Higdon wrote:
> "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is ....
> 
> https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2054
> 
> Home Page
> https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/

Maybe we all should go back to the good,
old MPC, unless you need special codecs.


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