After 3 months since the last stable build, we decided to release 1.6.6.
This release has many bugfixes and a few new features. Also, the binaries are digitally signed so you can easily verify their integrity.
Highlights of this release:
Uncompressed RAR files can now be played directly in MPC-HC, drag any .rar or part file (.r00, .r01, etc.) into the player to play it (thanks to RARFileSource)
The Subtitle menu now shows all available subtitle tracks including the tracks offered by the splitter
“Now playing” information can now be sent to Skype’s mood message, MSN support has been removed
VSync is now turned off by default due to playback issues, if you have Aero on you already have VSync and will not notice the difference
The hotkeys related to D3D Fullscreen and Frame Time Correction have changed to avoid accidental activation
The external filter list has been split for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the player, your current filter list will automatically be corrected
New:
Formats: The space key can now be used to enable/disable formats
Miscellaneous: Add button to export key bindings
Add the ability to choose the scale factor (relative to the screen size) for the auto-fit zoom
Internal Subtitles Renderer: Show all subtitles tracks in the Play -> Subtitles menu. That includes all the embedded tracks exhibited by the source filter and the external tracks.
Add a new shader that over brightens with gradient from the bottom to the top of the screen. It needs LCD monitors with low viewing angle (~170/160).
DVB: Remember audio and subtitle track selection.
Add an OSD reminder when Escape is pressed in D3D Fullscreen
Ticket #649, Add RARFileSource as an internal filter. Allows rar files without compression to be played without unpacking them.
Ticket #899, DVB: Add signal statistic to the status bar
Ticket #1025/#1054, Add the ability to select the default track directly by its number in MPC-HC and the standalone MPEG Splitter
Ticket #2050, Add Romanian translation
Ticket #2905, Support DTS-HD and E-AC3 passthrough
Ticket #2935, Add support for sending “Now playing” information to Skype
Changed:
UI: Use a more native look and feel for the options dialog tree
More resilient support for MPL2 and SRT subtitles formats:
Ticket #2779, Support MicroDVD tags in MPL2 subtitles files. This is normally not supported but MPL2 files that use MicroDVD tags for formatting are quite common.
Support SRT files with missing millisecond part in the timecodes.
Re-enable the option to bypass the DVD/BD path selection. The user won’t be asked to choose the location of the DVD/BD player (or folder) when this option is enabled.
Changed default D3D Fullscreen hotkey to Ctrl+Alt+F
Disabled Frame Time Correction hotkey by default
DVB: Some filters that are known to be incompatible with the BDA source filters are now blacklisted
External filters: Use two separated lists for x86 and x64 since x86 filters only work with MPC-HC x86 and vice versa
Ticket #978, Apply the “Repeat” option after “Play next in the folder”: the option will now take effect after the next file in the folder was played (similarly to what happens for playlist items)
Ticket #1620, UI: Use the new styled radio bullet for menu’s items
Ticket #2878, Removed obsolete MSN Messenger support
Ticket #2924, Use the current file directory as default folder for the “Load Subtitles” dialog
Ticket #2947, VSync is now disabled in the default renderer settings
Updated:
FFmpeg (n0.8-19080-g2bac153)
Little CMS to v2.4 (git 4ba0259)
Logitech SDK to v3.01 (driver 8.00.100)
SoundTouch to v1.7.1 r170
VirtualDub to v1.10.4-test1
MediaInfoLib to v0.7.62
ZenLib to v0.4.28 r430
Basque, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Slovak and Ukrainian translations
Fixed:
Various WebUI fixes:
Fix seeking
Fix volume slider going out of bounds with IE in player.html
Fix incorrect encoding of the parent directory’s path in browser.html
MPCVideoDecoder: Fix low merit internal filter
MPCVideoDecoder: The “Read Aspect Ratio from stream” option didn’t always work right
DVB EPG: Some strings weren’t correctly displayed in some cases
PGS Subtitles: Some subtitles were displayed with wrong colors or even not displayed at all
EVR-CP renderer: Fix some cases where VSync breaks smooth playback
The external filters list was lost when switching from registry to ini or vice-versa
Ticket #84, WebServer: The filenames weren’t correctly URL decoded
Ticket #593, Fixed EVR-CP using the CPU while the player is paused when VSync is on
Ticket #890, DVB: Disable pause for capture mode to avoid accidental playback stop
Ticket #1554, The OSD was looking bad when using the EVR Sync renderer
Ticket #1600, Improve the naming of subtitles tracks (avoid showing a useless and ugly comma)
Ticket #2396, DVB: Fix default audio track selection when its type is different than the first audio track
Ticket #2423, Fix wrong rounding leading to small black bars when resizing the window. This was mostly visible when using the “auto-fit” zoom or when resizing manually.
Ticket #2783, Fix crash when generating the chapter marks
Ticket #2805, AviSplitter: Fix a crash when closing the file while re-indexing
Ticket #2838, The window wasn’t draggable anymore by clicking on the information panel
Ticket #2839, Post-resize shaders didn’t work with VMR-9 (renderless)
Ticket #2855, The filename could be wrong when saving a screenshot or thumbnails
Ticket #2859, FLACSource: Improve timestamps accuracy. This fixes some cases where the end of the file wasn’t played.
Ticket #2863, The OSD was incorrect when restarting the playback of a file after it ended
Ticket #2864, VobSub subtitles were auto-loaded twice
Ticket #2881, “Auto-fit” and “Auto-fit (Larger Only)” zooms gave different results depending on if they were used in windowed or fullscreen mode
Ticket #2889, Fix incorrectly displayed OSD when using EVR and VRM-9 (windowed) renderers
Ticket #2902, DVB: Some old channels weren’t deleted when redoing the scan
Ticket #2913, Fixed DXVA1 MPEG2 decoder
Ticket #2931, DVB Subtitles: Fix a crash with some subtitles streams
Ticket #2934, MPEG Splitter: Some files couldn’t be opened
Ticket #2939, Some fields of the renderer statistics were wrong
Ticket #2971, Fix a rare crash on startup
Ticket #2984, SSA subtitles: Fix outline background with frx or fry tags
Ticket #2985, Prevent the volume OSD message from erasing the filename OSD message on startup
