Media Player Classic - Home Cinema settings

Here are the quick settings for MPC-HC for playing x264 (mkv) movies.

Download Media Player Classic Home Cinema here.

You can read a more comprehensive guide or visit several hundred pages of forum post but if you want to just make it work, here's it is:

Win 7 users, if you are experiencing a missing dll error on mpc-hc, install DirectX End-User Runtimes first.




Notes:
Catalyst 10.4 and mpc-hc version 1819 and above now supports L5.1 x264 dxva.


My preferred encoders (720p):
Scene:
1. Wiki
2. CBGB
3. iNFAMOUS

Internal:
1. HiDt
2. EuReKA

My specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
Biostar A785GE using IGP (HD4200) for video output.
Athlon II x2 240 2.8Ghz
Team Xtreem Dark 1066 CL6
Previous video cards used for hd playback: HD4350 , 9600gt