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MPC-BE vs mpv: catalog facts
MPC-BE	mpv
Free Free and open source under the GPL version 3.	Free Free software with no paid version.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Plays almost any audio or video format without hunting for codec packs Very small and starts instantly compared with modern players	High quality video output through OpenGL, Vulkan and D3D11, with scaling, colour management, frame timing… Hardware decoding on most platforms, switchable at runtime with --hwdec
Windows only Requires an SSE2 CPU and a DirectX 9.0c card with Pixel Shader 3.0	There is no real graphical interface, only a small on-screen controller over the video Configuration means editing mpv.conf and input.conf by hand
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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