Media Player Classic is een kleine no-nonsense-mediaspeler met het uiterlijk van Windows Media Player 6.4. Nadat Gabest, de originele maker van MPC, de ontwikkeling staakte zijn verschillende projecten ontstaan op basis van de opensourcebroncode, waar Home Cinema en Black Edition de bekendste van zijn. MPC - BE kan overweg met de meest gebruikte mediaformaten, heeft ondersteuning voor hardwareacceleratie en is in meer dan 25 talen te gebruiken. Versie 1.5.8 is uitgekomen en hierin zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
ShoutcastSourceUDPReader
- Added decoding of HTML codes like "&#NNNN" in the title of the track.
AudioSplitter
- Added decoding of HTML codes like "&#NNNN" in the title of the track for Shoutcast and Icecast radio.
MpcAudioRenderer
- Improved work with DFF, DSF, DTD-HD and WAV.
- Fixed opening of some WAV files.
Subtitles
- Fixed playing of very short files.
Youtube
- Fixed display of external subtitles during playback after pressing "Stop".
- Updated support for opening videos and playlists.
- Fixed getting metadata.
Player
Updated translations
- Added option "Move window by the video area".
- Added the "Remove missing files" command to the playlist menu.
- Fixed sorting in the "Explorer" playlist.
- Added and icons for display in the "tiles" of the Start menu.
- Fixed switching display mode in some cases.
- Fixed navigation when alternating step-by-step movement and movement for a specific time.
- Redesigned the "Frame synchronization" settings panel.
- Expanded the ability to play DVD-Video with region restrictions on drives with the same restriction.
Updated libraries:
- German (by Klaus1189).
- Hungarian (by mickey).
- Turkish (by cmhrky).
- Chinese (Simplified) (by wushantao).
- Ukrainian (by arestarh1986).
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Dutch (by beter).
- dav1d git-0.9.0-24-gddbbfde
- Detours git-v4.0.1-92-gfe7216c
- ffmpeg git-n4.5-dev-1109-g604924a069
- Little-CMS git-2.12-17-g79e8395
- MediaInfo git-v21.03-14-gee8c3c17
- Speex-1.2.0-25-g870ff84
- rapidjson git-v1.1.0-630-gb557259f
- ZenLib git-v0.4.39-g13b9d3db