If you read my post from Monday, you saw I mentioned setting up bitstreaming for my HTPC. Up to now I have just stuck with using the default WMP player that W7MC uses (which requires additional codecs/hacks to be done for playback of some of my material, I will discuss this further in an upcoming post). Since I operate my HTPCs solely with a universal remote, I felt like I always lost remote functionality when MPC HC was launched, which was very inconvenient and not good for the ever critical WAF. XBMC, and add ins for WMC such as MyMovies and Media Browser, allow you to launch MPC HC for playback when you select a movie, but it just never felt seamless. If you want to play a movie with MPC HC you need to navigate to the movie from Windows Explorer which would bypass WMC or XBMC completely and really take away from the user experience. The reason is because it is not a media center platform like Windows Media Center or XBMC. Even though MPC HC sounds like the perfect player I have never really used for playback of my movies on my HTPCs. I have always used MPC HC to test out my videos before I copy over to my server to make sure everything looks ok. It also has native support for DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) which is especially critical for low powered CPUs of PCs.
What this means is that you don’t have to mess around with dreaded codecs or filters on your PC to play back video, simply install MPC HC and you are ready to play virtually any video. One of the great features of MPC HC is that the audio and video codecs are built-in. MPC HC (known as Media Player Classic – Home Cinema) is a free and versatile audio and video player for Windows.
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