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 1.8.5 is uitgekomen en hierin zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
AviSplitterMatroskaSplitter
- Improved support for VP9 and AV1 video.
MpegSplitter
- Improved support for VP9 and Apple ProRes video.
- Improved work with unstable sources.
MPCVideoDec
- Added support for AV1 video.
MpcAudioRenderer
- Improved support for VP9 video.
- Added the ability to hardware decode slightly non-standard AV1 videos.
- Speeded up copying of video frames for CopyBack modes (optimizations from the LAV Filters project were used).
YouTube
- Fixed crashes in some situations.
- Improved Push method.
Player
- The default format is now VP9 720p + Opus.
- Fixed merging of saved VP9 and AAC streams using ffmpeg.exe.
- Added checks for availability of the URL being opened.
- Improved yt-dlp support.
- Added the ability to select the default language as the preferred audio track language.
Installer
- Fixed saving of video frame image with subtitles when using MPC Video Renderer.
- HLS M3U files are no longer processed as normal playlists, but are passed to the source filter as is.
- Added the ability to save the "Show milliseconds" setting.
- Added settings "Controls size" and "Use Blur Behind effect (Windows 10 and above)".
- Added OSD settings panel.
- Added a Debanding shader.
- Various interface fixes.
Updated translations
- Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.9.9.
- Updated MPC Script Source 0.2.9.
Updated libraries:
- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Dutch
- German
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Romanian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Turkish
- ffmpeg n7.2-dev-2722-gfb65ecbc9b
- Little-CMS git-lcms2.17-31-g9ac94ea
- MediaInfo git-v25.04-121-gf842d2fea
- ZenLib git-v0.4.41-76-gf5f6974