Questions tagged [media-player-classic]
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Use Media Player Classic to resynchronize subtitles?
I see that in Media Player Classic, under View - Subresync, there is a tool that should serve to resynchronize subtitles.
What is the procedure exactly?
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Fine control over zoom and aspect ratio in VLC player
In VLC Player (v1.01), how do I zoom video and control aspect ratio with fine control, as is possible with Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPCHC)? The standard zoom appears to only support double, ...
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How to play 24 fps video smoothly on a 60Hz display?
I use mpc-hc to play videos on Win7 x64. With the default settings (#1), video playback is great most of the time. But for panning shots, playback is not smooth. I stepped through the video frame by ...
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MPC-HC Seekbar Not Jumping to Correct Position with Mouse Click
On my MPC-HC video player installation, the seekbar is not moving to the correct position whenever I click to move it. Instead, it moves either slightly ahead or behind where my cursor clicks. Since I ...
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Seekbar Thumbnails in MPC HC like Youtube
I have downloaded the latest version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema which is v1.6.8.
I want to know if there is any way to generate "seekbar thumbnails" Like youtube?
I mean when I hover on ...
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Finding and Saving Media Player Classic downloaded subtitles?
Recently I discovered this feature which enables users to download subs directly from the MPC program. However, I thought that by default it downloaded the file directly to the folder where the movie ...
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How to enable pitch shifting in MPC?
How can I enable pitch shifting in MPC? I read in Wikipedia that Media Player Classic has pitch shifting but it seems it's not enabled (doesn't work?). I was wondering I have to do something to enable ...
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How can I go forward and back frame by frame in media player classic? (left and right are jumping many seconds!)
I like media player classic because it has built in support for showing milliseconds.
I would like to be able to move frame by frame
I have heard that left and right should move frame by frame, but ...
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How to make MPC-HC to cache more aggressively
The buffer for streamed video in MPC-HC is too small and can't be expanded in user preferences.
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How to make Media Player Classic HC play audio as mono instead of stereo?
I'm using Media Player Classic HC (MPC-HC) and I want to know how to make it play in mono sound output instead of stereo.
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Set custom window size for Media Player Classic/Windows Media Player
When opening Video files on Media Player Classic or WMP, is there any setting we could set so it will always open in the same window size?
Currently what happens is, it automatically adjusts its ...
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How to “one-click” delete a file that is currently playing on Media Player Classic
Is there a way to do it straight from MPC or could I create a separate program that would detect the file that is currently playing and delete it (I know it is possible to delete files while they are ...
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How do I check if .wmv file is corrupted?
Whenever I try to play .wmv in an media player, it won't start playing by itself. When I slide the bar a little further only then it does. Could be the .wmv file corrupted from the beginning? How can ...
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Understanding buffer/bitrate statistics in Media Player Classic
I understand that the two numbers under bitrate are the average bitrate and the current bitrate of each stream.
But what are the two numbers under buffers? I suppose the second one is the amount of ...
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120fps video playback issues
Unable to playback the 120FPS video downloaded from http://www.blurbusters.com/hfr-120fps-video-game-recording/
For VLC it moves at 20fps and is all pixelated (with lots of artefacts) and broken
In ...
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Open a video at a specific time in Media Player Classic
How can I open a video file in Media Player Classic at a specific time in the file?
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Play Blu-rays using Media Player Classic, I have PowerDVD10
So my laptop came with a copy of PowerDVD10 but I would prefer to use Media Player Classic (v1.5.3.3819). I had read somewhere you can make it use PowerDVDs codecs but I have no idea how to set this ...
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ffdshow DXVA vs. MPC-HC internal DXVA in k-lite setup
The setup of k-lite codec pack lets me choose between ffdshow DXVA and MPC-HC internal DXVA for H.264 and VC-1.
&...
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Getting “DVD: Copy-protection fail” error when trying to play DVD in Media Player Classic
I'm trying to play a DVD in Media Player Classic, when I get the error
DVD: Copy-protection fail.
What can I do to play my DVD? Preferably in Media Player Classic.
I'm running Windows 7. It works in ...
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Small, medium and large jump distances in media player classic
In the media player classic there this configuration:
but I can only jump medium distances by left and right arrow keys.
Is there a shortcut key for small and large distances, I tried Shift/CTRL+ ...
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How to hide the opaque gray information on MPC HC in the upper left of the video
I just updated K-Lite Codec Pack. The updated version of MPC HC is showing this gray opaque OSD box:
Anyone knows how to disable that? I can't seem to find the option to remove it. It's getting ...
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make Media Player Classic autoplay next when opening a single file (instead of looping)
If I open a video folder in Media Player Classic, when a video finishes it will automatically start playing the next video in the folder. If I open a single file, it loops back to the beginning when ...
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How to get smooth GPU accelerated video playback with Subtitles using Media Player Classic
I run Windows 7 x32 in my Dell Studio 1555 laptop having ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series Graphics card. I have the latest drivers installed, even then, I got some stuttering, when I try to ...
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How to change toolbar skin in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema?
I am following this link to change toolbar skin of Media Player Classic - Home Cinema but it is not using the new skin. I'm using Windows 8 Pro N and Media Feature Pack is installed.
More Information:...
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When you save favorites in Media Player Classic where are they saved
I would like to transfer all my favorites from another computer but I am not sure where they are.
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A malicious threat was detected in Media Player Classic exe file
When I run HitmanPro, it says that mpchc64.exe is a trojan. A virustotal analysis seems to show malicious flags triggered by several vendors.
What is going on? Why does a file by Media Player Classic ...
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MPC-HC lags hard when there are lots of subs on screen
I've been watching various anime lately and I noticed that around generously decorated with subtitles opening and ending sequences, the CPU spikes, free buffered frames pool drains and severe lags ...
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Tool allowing to resume and bookmark specific location of video/playlist
I am going insane trying to watch a course of videos on a bunch of different folders. I aggregated all the folders into one huge playlist (in different Windows players) but each time i resume watching,...
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Play multiple audio tracks of a video simultaneously on MPC-HC
I have an MP4 file containing two audio tracks, and would like MPC-HC to play them both simultaneously.
I saw that this is possible on VLC, and would like to know whether there is a way to achieve ...
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Media Player Classic Home Cinema stops on MKV
Media Player Classic Home Cinema stops on MKV. It goes to "stop" mode after file open. Unable to run playing. No error messages generated.
MPC-HC version: 1.6.7.7114 (9eb64ec) 64 bit
Compiler ...
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MPEG files damaged over time. How to fix?
I have a strange problem with a few MPEG files (.mp4 and .mpg).
These files have been living on my hard disk for quite a long time. I also have recently copied them into a new disk, not having the ...
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Video playback lags when skipping forward/backwards with TS files for Media Player Classic
I often download video files in the TS format and watch them with Media Player classic. I often skip forward a few seconds with shortkeys. My issue is that after skipping forward, I immediately can ...
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How to turn off details being displayed in Media Player Classic?
I accidentality pressed some shortcut key and currently not able to turn this details off.
How can this be turned off..?
This is Media Player Classic software running in windows 10
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How to copy current timestamp to clipboard in MPC BE?
I have visited every link on the internet but cannot seem to find a solution.
What I want to do is that copy the current timestamp of the video I am watching and then paste it into the Word Document ...
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Windows 7 slow at opening media files
A few days ago I encountered a strange problem that since then consistently persists, I noticed that Windows 7 all of a sudden became exceptionally slow at opening video files. I haven't got the ...
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Media Player Classic plays everything stretched/zoomed
The program sudenly started playing all videos very stretched or zoomed, not even changing the pan/scan, zoom and the like works. I re-installed my video drivers, CCCP and MPC-HC. But it persists.
The ...
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navigate using arrow keys in Media Player Classic-HC
Today, I installed Media Player Classic-HC and noticed it doesn't use arrow keys for moving forward or backward. I went to View => Options => keys and made the proper changes to my need. But now, ...
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ffdshow filter cannot be selected in Media Player Classic-HC
I installed ffdshow on my Windows 8.1 x64, as you can see:
My MPC-HC can't see it as an external filter:
Where should I look for it?
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How do I make MPC show forced subtitles?
There is Home Cinema video player, installed directly from its site.
And it can show any other subtitles in a MKV video file, but it not showing the forced ones. I can select them, but there is just ...
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What do Channel positions mean in Media Info?
I see in MPC-HC Media Info the following information:
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
What can it mean?
By sense, "channel ...
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Media player classic starts at boot up CPU 100% not listed in msconfig. What is going on?
Every time I boot windows, media player classic starts running in the background (no actual MPC window opens) and hogs the CPU at 100% until I kill it. In process explorer the parent is explorer. I ...
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How can I remove a voice over translation from a movie in Media Player Classic?
On Windows XP Professional, SP3, how can I remove a voice over translation from a movie in Media Player Classic?
The movie is in .avi format.
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How to restore the original MPC-BE user interface?
I must have accidentally switched to an alternate UI, presumably with a hotkey. How can I restore the original interface without clearing configuration settings?
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How to make video on media player classic more vivid? [closed]
Is there way to make video played on media player classic more vivid, like PowerDVD or Sony LCD TV ?
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Is there a 'global media cache' in Windows 7 that may be used by third party media players?
Here's the background. I don't use Windows Media Player or Media Centre, in fact both components have been 'turned off' via the 'Programs and Features' option. My media player of choice is a nightly ...
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Media Player Classic rmvb compatibility issue in Windows 7 x64 [closed]
I get this error whenever i try to run an rmvb (RealMedia Variable Bitrate) file.
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I've installed K-Lite Codec Pack, DirectX, and Shark codec. Is ...
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Set different subtitles colors/brightness for sdr/hdr content respectively with mpc-be?
I use mpc-be to play videos. One annoying issue is that the subtitle's colors/brightness I set for SDR content become too bright when I change to play HDR content. So I have to change subtitle's ...
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MPC Playlist not loading last played media
I have this problem in which I created a playlist with some video files and saved the mpcpl file.
Now when I open this mpcpl file, instead of playing from the last position of the last running video, ...
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MPC-BE fails to render files that MPC-HC renders
I am switching to a new computer. I have MPC-HC on my old computer, but I understand that version is deprecated, so I installed MPC-BE on my new computer instead. However, I find that MPC-BE cannot ...
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Media Player Classic often fails to keep always on top
I use the latest Media Player Classic Home Cinema version (v1.7.13), and I like its Always on top feature (the player remains on top, no matter what other windows I open).
Unfortunately, this (...
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