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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by m45t3r » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 1:20 AM UTC

sotojuan wrote: post #27

Damn. I remember all the debates on /a/ (4chan anime board) on what are the best options and presets... for watching anime. Looking back it was kind of silly but we were able to do that because the player was so well built. On Linux/macOS I use mpv - I recommend it!

Well, this is because almost everyone nowadays concur that mpv is the way to go.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by cbhl » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 1:28 AM UTC

_l4jh wrote: post #33

MPC-HC is a superb media player but it is not surprising to see this happen. Interest in maintaining open source Windows applications written in C/Win32/C++/MFC is going to keep dropping as there are not as many people with the skills or motivation to do it. Especially for something as complex as a media player. Even on the Linux side I have seen a drop in the number of full blown media players being developed, they…

Plus, legal streaming video/audio has become ubiquitous in the US, and Chromecast/Fire TV/Roku are far cheaper than building a Home Theater PC (or even converting an old video game console or Linux box into one).

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 1:44 AM UTC

rakshithbekal wrote: post #32

NuDinNou wrote: post #26

Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

Does not have NGU

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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by unscaled » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 2:03 AM UTC

GuB-42 wrote: post #54

Is it dead or done? MPC-HC is just a DirectShow frontend, or at least, that's how I used it. Filters do most of the work. And no one seems to care about DirectShow anymore but that's mostly because everything works fine. It will die eventually, because Microsoft is trying hard to kill DirectShow (to replace it with something inferior...) and the opensource guys mostly go to mplayer, but for now, updates are not reall…

Calling MPC-HC just a DirectShow frontend is almost as inaccurate as saying mplayer is just a UNIX frontend. Just as mplayer is using POSIX APIs, MPC-HC is using the DirectShow API to run its filter graphs, but it actually provides a lot of internal decoders and filters (mostly based on ffmpeg/libavcodec), and if memory serves me right it even has its own renderer, and pretty much customizes its graph building, so you don't get a default DirectShow graph. To be honest, the DirectShow code provided by Microsoft usually ends up providing very little besides the Renderer (unless you're using an external renderer like madVR or Haali) and the glue code.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Kallie898 » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 2:10 AM UTC

rakshithbekal wrote: post #32

NuDinNou wrote: post #26

Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

Does not have NGU

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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Leilani99 » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 2:40 AM UTC

rakshithbekal wrote: post #32

NuDinNou wrote: post #26

Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

Does not have NGU

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Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by NamTaf » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 2:49 AM UTC

Well, nuts. I really liked MPC-HC as part of the CCCP. I'll check out some of the alternatives offered in this thread. Hopefully one follows the slim design and flexibility of MPC.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by djsumdog » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 2:57 AM UTC

NuDinNou wrote: post #26

Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

I switched from mplayer/mplayer2 to mpv a few years back and it's pretty amazing. It's my primary video player.

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Madeline44 » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 3:04 AM UTC

rakshithbekal wrote: post #32

NuDinNou wrote: post #26

Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

Does not have NGU

Finally, my paycheck is $ 8,500? A working 10 hours per week online. My brother’s friend had an average of 12K for several months, he work about 22 hours a week. I can not believe how easy it is, once I try to do so. This is what I do........http://www.joinmate2.com

Re: MPC-HC v1.7.13 is released and farewell

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Post by Nexxxeh » Mon, Jul 17, 2017, 3:24 AM UTC

pussypusspuss wrote: post #44

A more verbose title would've been useful. I shouldn't have to click through to the linked site to find out what the acronym MPC-HC means.

I don't think it really matters what the acronym means. It's a project name, like VLC (which is VideoLAN Client, to save you the trip ;) ) and its known BY the acronym.