


MPC-HC lets you use the keys on the numeric keypad to zoom in and out, move the picture up and down, or even rotate it if that's your thing, while a tap on the "5" key resets it. DXVA (hardware decoding) support, Directshow support, the ability to open Avisynth scripts, the ability to open multiple instances of the player, and a decent pan and scan function. I tried SMPlayer a while back when someone recommended it and quite disliked it as most of my "must haves" weren't to be had. Potplayer is very similar to MPC-HC in that huge chunks of it seem to be a direct ripoff, and while it seems like a decent player it's got options for days I don't really need and have to hunt around to find, making navigating and changing settings with MPC-HC easier for me. There's another version called MPC-BE which has a preview function as you move the cursor along the navigation bar which I really like, but it gave me a fullscreen problem last time I tried it. Every so often a new player comes along and/or someone recommends one so I try it out hoping it'll be even better, but for one reason or another it doesn't take me long to go back to MPC-HC.

I couldn't understand at first why changing the subtitle styles with that menu didn't seem to "stick" once the player was restarted. It took me a couple of minutes to realise the Play/Subtitles/Styles menu lets you change a subtitle style "on the fly" so changing it for a particular video doesn't change the default settings. MPC-HC has lots of subtitle options I've barely looked at and never used, but I went from loading subtitles as per picture 1 to loading them as per picture 2 and 3 pretty quickly. Usually over the lower part of the picture so I can zoom without losing them, but it's not hard to encode them over a lower black border.Īnyway. If I know I'm going to need them I hardcode them. The earliest version of MPC I have is dated 2003. I'm a bit of a hoarder of program installation files so I had a look.
