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Media Player Classic Qute Theater 25.07

Media Player Classic Qute Theater ("Mpc-Qt") is a multimedia player designed to closely replicate the interface and experience of Media Player Classic Home Cinema ("Mpc-Hc").

While Mpc-Hc is widely regarded as a classic media player for Windows, Mpc-Qt recreates much of its look and functionality using the Qt toolkit. Instead of relying on DirectShow, it uses the powerful libmpv backend for media playback. Though inspired by Mpc-Hc, Mpc-Qt introduces several enhancements rather than serving as an exact clone.

Features and Improvements Over MPC-HC

Mpc-Qt builds upon the classic Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) experience with a range of practical enhancements. It maintains the familiar interface while adding features like multiple playlist support with progress tracking, allowing users to manage different shows or albums without losing their place. Seekbar thumbnail previews make navigation smoother, and integrated online video playback via youtube-dl expands content accessibility directly within the player. Additional improvements include quick queuing for flexible, out-of-order playback, multi-threaded playlist search for instant results, and customizable screenshot templates for neatly labeled captures. Users can display rich metadata in the playlist and personalize the app's appearance with built-in theming options. While staying true to MPC-HC's simplicity, Mpc-Qt delivers a more powerful and modern media experience.

Media Player Classic Qute Theater 25.07 changelog:

Key highlights

  • A video preview is shown on the seek bar.
  • The window can be moved by dragging the bottom section.
  • Bigger icons and updated subtitles icon.
  • The shuffle feature shuffles the entire list (and preserve its original order) and the playlist keeps the current item at the center, so you'll always know what's playing next.
  • The new music mode makes it possible to keep the MPC-QT small to play music.
  • The keys editor is easier to use thanks to a search field and a better workflow.
  • Subtitles additions for deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH) like [whispers] can be automatically hidden (in "Subtitles > Misc").
  • You can force MPC-QT to use English instead of an incomplete translation.
  • The AppImage is made with Ubuntu 22.04, but you're encouraged to use the Flathub Flatpak version instead.

Features

  • Add a setting to remember panels state and keep last window geometry setting active (#304)
  • Implement ICC Profile browse button (#317)
  • Support pan and scan (#330)
  • Add a video preview to the seekbar (#411, #415, #438, #443, #452)
  • Implement window resize in minimal and compact modes (#391, #467)
  • Add a music mode (#398)
  • Add Previous and Next Audio track shortcuts (#399)
  • Add a quick search field to the Keys page of Options (#404)
  • Add OpenSubtitles web search support (#422)
  • Support removing subtitles additions for deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH) (#424)
  • Implement remember last selected playlist option (#428)
  • Implement language override to English in Player options (#426)

Improvements

  • Update subtitles icons (#313)
  • Enable the seekbar time tooltip by default (#318)
  • Make icons images larger (#320, #363)
  • Draw slider background transparently (#324)
  • Add support for .iso file extension (#355)
  • Detect the icons theme (#364)
  • Always use the built-in icons (#365)
  • Enable Fusion Qt style by default on Windows for dark theme support (#366)
  • Update MimeType & X-KDE-Protocols in .desktop (#376)
  • Switch to the CMake build system (#387, #444, #446, #453)
  • Position current item of playlist at center of viewport (#390)
  • Remove audio volume from Options and move balance to audio page (#396)
  • Show OSD message on track change by shortcut or subtitles enabling/disabling (#402, #407)
  • Move audio, subtitles and video tracks at the top of their submenus (#403)
  • Improve keybinding workflow (#406, #409)
  • Always use pointing hand cursor for seekbar (#413)
  • Make Statistics translatable (#432)
  • Implement yt-dlp web video max height setting (#434, #445)
  • Make more playlist-related strings translatable (#433)
  • Show more tracks information in submenus and fix tracks info formatting (#436)
  • Set a bottom margin by default for subtitles (#441)
  • Tweak playback speed feature (#449)
  • Output stacktrace in log and handle SIGABRT (#454, #455)
  • Allow the window to be moved by dragging the bottom section (#457)
  • Increase width of Open Network Stream dialog (#458)
  • Add Catalan, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Tamil translations. Thanks to the translators!

Bug fixes

  • Work around bug on Wayland where video doesn't fit window (#305)
  • Disable auto zoom by default in Wayland mode (#306)
  • Change ccHdrRemapper stack to show Mobius by default (#312)
  • Propagate background color to mpv too (#322)
  • Re-raise segmentation fault signal instead of exiting with error (#384)
  • Fix playlist hidden on start (#397)
  • Make the JSON IPC link in Keys Options clickable (#400)
  • Change shortcuts for volume up and volume down (#408)
  • Don't show "Volume:" OSD message when opening mpc-qt (#418)
  • Don't show "Subtitles:" OSD message when opening mpc-qt (#420)
  • Restore music mode state on start (#421)
  • Make percent (%) strings translatable (#423)
  • Disable actionFileSaveCopy (Save a Copy...) (#431)
  • Use Consolas as monospace font on Windows (#442)
  • Prevent assert failure in qBound call in DrawnSlider (#456)
  • Fix Thumbnailer on Windows and center MPC-QT's name vertically (#460)
  • Add a 1px margin at top of MediaSlider (#471)