MPC-HC playback issues .. [resolved]

[vhelp]

not too long ago i downloaded mpc-hc, but not sure i installed it or it played as-is. anyway. i am working on gui and was trying to play an encode i made when it popped this message:



i donloaded the latest per the link (menu\help\home page) and attempted to install, but it wants service pack 3, which i will NOT install. i had a lot of trouble with it in the past and it took a while to uninstall it. is there another download that has it that i can install w/out sp3 or better yet, has anyone a modified version that works no matter what ?

also, as it turns out, it displays this message for all the videos i try to play.

thank you, in advance.

[El Heggunte]

Try the following
( warning, I don't know if this will work or won't work, play at your own risk ):

open the installer with 7-Zip (or w/ Universal Extractor, as a last resource),
and unpack the contents to a separate folder;
locate the file DXSETUP.EXE and run it, *perhaps* it doesn't check if SP3 is installed

[fritzi93]

You might try MPC-BE. Very similar to MPC-HC, and it is a little more forgiving, There's a portable version available.

[EDIT] I see El Heggunte recommended pretty much the above fix to a user (in the MPC-BE comments section ) who had your same problem on Win7. And evidently it works. Anyway, I think MPC-BE is a better player than MPC-HC.

Good luck.

[vhelp]

7z did not work as expected. all the files are (in the root) are

[folder].rsrc
.bss
.data
.idata
.itext
.rdata
.text
.tls
[0]
CERTIFICATE

[El Heggunte]

Then try https://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPC-BE#11013 , please.

[vhelp]

just did, installed it, and it popped up the same error message, "the latest directx runtime is not installed!"
come on..how can i not have it installed.. 5 years and now i see this message. baloone. i know its installed, else i woudn't have been able to do anything (what i do to this day) on this pc. anyway.

[El Heggunte]

Do you have 7-zip 9.20 ?????

I have right-clicked the damn "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe", and 7-Zip shows

1 zillion cab files, 2 DLLs and 1 EXE.

[vhelp]

i have 9.22 beta on home pc. my netbook (behind me) has 9.20, just installed it this afternoon.

[vhelp]

(resolved)

the suggestion for versions 9.22 and 9.20 did not work.

however, thanks to fritzi93, mpc-be worked. it only popped the message once, but subsiquent file loads no longer show that message. i will stick with mpc-be since it works well. i guess tomorrow i will know if it truely worked or is something that occurs only once upon initial startup of every fresh bootup. or, maybe it needed to create a special file or register in the registry once. i don't know. anyway. i can live with that if that turns out to be the case. otherwise, i hope it was resolved.

[El Heggunte]

OK, you'll use MPC-BE, but I'd like to explain why 7-Zip didn't work for you ---

--- the installer you downloaded today is different from the installer I downloaded 3 years ago

This new type of compression (still) fools even the Universal Extractor, which then will call the 7z DLL and will show the same garbage as 7-zip

[fritzi93]

Well, I hope that's the end of those error messages. Too bad the fix didn't work, though.

[hello_hello]

So has 7zip compression changed a bit over time? I wondered why my old version of WinRAR wouldn't extract the odd 7zip file and I've had to download 7zip.

Speaking of which..... and sorry to wonder off topic a little.... what am I missing when it comes to 7zip? After installing it and compressed several folders containing various files into a 7zip file, I then repeated the process using WinRAR to compress to both RAR and ZIP.
7zip failed to produce a single archive which wasn't a little larger than both the RAR and ZIP versions.

[vhelp]

ot is fine by me.

Well, I hope that's the end of those error messages.

yes, confirmed..it worked out..no error message. it only comes up when i open *any* video files in mpc-hc.

mpc-be is working out well. but as i vaguely mentioned earlier, i am also working on a basic player of my own through dspack for delphi. but i wish i had some nicer looking UI controls and not the older boring ones that come with delphi. i did purchase the nextgrid suite a couple of years ago, the grid is ok and comes with a couple of nicer controls but not much i can do to polish up my gui's a little better. if i could find some good quality controls i'd buy them. oh well.