MPC-BE
A lightweight Windows media player descended from Media Player Classic, with its own independent development.
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Package managers
- winget
winget install --id MPC-BE.MPC-BE - Chocolatey
choco install mpc-be
About MPC-BE
MPC-BE, Media Player Classic Black Edition, continues the Media Player Classic line but with its own independent codebase rather than tracking Home Cinema. It plays essentially any audio or video file, is small, starts instantly, and offers the deep playback controls that the Media Player Classic family has always had.
It needs an SSE2-capable processor, a DirectX 9.0c graphics card with Pixel Shader 3.0, and Windows 7 or later in 32-bit or 64-bit. Installer and portable builds are published for each release, and development is active with frequent updates. Much of the project's own documentation is in Russian.
Strengths
- Plays almost any audio or video format without hunting for codec packs
- Very small and starts instantly compared with modern players
- Installer and portable builds for every release
- Actively developed, with releases far more frequent than the original MPC
Limitations
- Windows only
- Requires an SSE2 CPU and a DirectX 9.0c card with Pixel Shader 3.0
- Much of the project documentation is Russian-language
- The interface is deliberately old-fashioned
Details
- Pricing
- Free · Free and open source under the GPL version 3.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Aleksoid1978
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- A fast, no-nonsense video player on Windows
- Categories
- Media players
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Media); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.