Media Player Classic is een kleine no-nonsensemediaspeler 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 opensourcecode. Home Cinema en Black Edition zijn daarvan de bekendste. MPC - BE kan overweg met de meestgebruikte mediaformaten, heeft ondersteuning voor hardwareacceleratie en is in meer dan 25 talen te gebruiken. Versie 1.8.0 is uitgekomen en hierin zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
MP4SplitterAudioSwitcher
- Fixed reading of some metadata.
- Improved MP4-DASH support.
MPPVideoDec
- Added the ability to connect to "AVI/WAV File Source" when it gives an incorrect media subtype for audio with parameters written in WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE. This solves the problem with sound in AviSynth+ and VapourSynth scripts.
- Added "Don't use for stereo and mono sources" setting for FFmpeg audio filters.
Subtitles
- Improved hardware decoding compatibility check.
- Fixed crash when changing resolution in video stream.
Player
- Improved placement of PGS subtitles for cropped videos.
Installer
- Fixed display of static DVD-Video menu when minimizing/maximizing the player window.
- Fixed video frame zooming.
- Added support for long paths for Windows 10 v1607 and newer. Long paths must be enabled in the registry. More info.
- Added "Small stereo speakers" button for quick setup of sound output to desktop stereo speakers, laptop speakers, etc.
- Various interface fixes.
Updated translations
- Added setting "Enable Windows 10 long paths support". The setting will be displayed when installing on Windows 10 1607 or later with long paths disabled.
- Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.8.7.
Updated libraries:
- German
- Italian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Turkish
- Hungarian
- Korean
- Japanese
- ffmpeg n7.2-dev-183-g2705c0bd81;
- Little-CMS git-lcms2.16-66-g5c54a6d;
- MediaInfo git-v24.06-31-gf24a17b41;
- rapidjson v1.1.0-755-g815e6e7e;
- vvdec v2.3.0-28-gf8ba8fd;
- ZenLib git-v0.4.41-23-g2c078a6.