Media Player Classic - BE Win32/x64

[alexins]

Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows.
MPC-BE is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666), contains additional features and bug fixes.

Supported Operating Systems:
* Windows 7, Windows 8 32bit/64bit, Windows 8.1 32bit/64bit, Windows 10 32bit/64bit, Windows 11 64bit

System Requirements:
* An SSE2 capable CPU. (Starting from version 1.5.1 build 2631 beta a CPU with SSE2 is required.)
* The latest DirectX 9.0c runtime (June 2010). Install it regardless of the operating system, they all need it.
DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer

Links:
Project Page

Changes in release 1.9.0:

Splitters
Fixed crashes in some situations.

AudioSplitter
Added support for the RF64 format.
Fixed reading of channel layout for some WavPack files.
Added support for ID3 tags for Wave64 files. Unknown Wave64 chunks are now ignored.

AviSplitter
Added support for 'y408' video.
Improved support for 'HEVC' video.

FLVSplitter
Added support for VVC video.

MP4Splitter
Improved handling of corrupted files.

MatroskaSplitter
Expanded support for V_UNCOMPRESSED video codecs.
Fixed support for frame rotation (ProjectionPoseRoll).
Improved support for "V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / HEVC".

MpcDvdVideoDecoder
Fixed conversion to YUY2.
Fixed display of menus for some DVD-Videos.

RoQVideoDecoder
Output in NV12 and YV12 formats is allowed. Full range is used.

MPC Video Decoder
RGB32 format will be output as a top-down bitmap by default.
Added support for the "IID_MediaSideDataDOVIMetadataV2" interface.
Removed support for the deprecated "IID_MediaSideDataDOVIMetadata" interface.
Fixed retrieving the name of the video adapter when using NVDEC.
Fixed crashes in some situations.

MPC Video Converter
Added support for AYUV video format.

MpcAudioRenderer
Improved input format validation.
Optimized retrieval of supported formats for exclusive mode.
Added the "Keep audio device active when paused" setting.
Fixed crashes and freezes in various situations.

Subtitles
Added the ability to open the properties of an external subtitle renderer in the "Subtitles" settings panel.
Fixed external subtitle connections for VSFilter.
Fixed a crash when rendering PGS/SUP subtitles when using AVX2.

YouTube
Improved support for yt-dlp.
The built-in YouTube parser is no longer used.

Player
The HTTP read strategy has been changed.
If the playlist contains one entry, more key combinations can be used to control the player (jump through chapters, adjust volume).
Improved support for reading ASX playlists.
The translation of the MediaInfo report for Chinese, Korean and Japanese has been removed.
Added blocking of 32-bit filter "PICVideo Lossless JPEG Decompressor" (pvljpg20.dll), because it crashes.
Added blocking of the system filter "AVI Decompressor", which will eliminate the crash of VFW codecs.
Fixed a rare crash when using the "/slave" key.
Fixed a crash when getting a list of fonts for OSD.
Added the ability to load an external audio file using hotkeys.
Fixed opening a network path starting with \\?\UNC\.
The "Determine duration when adding" playlist setting now works for YouTube video URLs.
The "Online media services" settings panel has been redesigned.
Added a "Merge files using FFmpeg" option to the file saving dialog. This option is activated when playing multiple streams obtained using yt-dlp.
Added loading of local .dpl playlists ("DAUMPLAYLIST").
Fixed a hang when the user closes the player during the URL opening process.
Various interface fixes.

Installer
Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.10.5.
Updated MPC Script Source 0.2.17.
Added MPC Image Source 0.3.6.

Updated Japanese translation (by tsubasanouta).
Updated Chinese (Traditional) and Dutch translation (by beter).
Updated Romanian translation (by Andrei Miloiu).
Updated Hungarian translation (by mickey).
Updated Turkish translation (by cmhrky).
Updated German translation (by Klaus1189).
Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation (by wushantao).
Updated Italian translation (by mapi68).
Updated Korean translation (by Hackjjang).
Updated Chinese (Traditional) (by udfbe).

Updated libraries:
dav1d 1.5.3-6-g04b69f9;
ffmpeg n8.2-dev-1857-g4653e68aab;
libpng git-v1.6.55-9-g7d52a8087;
Little-CMS git-lcms2.18-26-gf739cda;
MediaInfo git-v26.05-38-g702c9b7fd;
ZenLib git-v0.4.41-91-g073f297;
zlib 1.3.2.

Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x64 (Stable release):
Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x64 (with installer)
Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x64
Standalone Filters Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x64

Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 Win32 (Stable release):
Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x86 (with installer)
Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x86
Standalone Filters Media Player Classic - BE 1.9.0 x86

Nightly Builds:
Nightly Builds

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Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses

[Hypernova]

At long last! I saw the "leak" has the seekbar preview. Gotta try this right away.

Edit: Request: Can you make the filename's font inside the seekbar respect cleartype setting?

[cyberbeing]

Unchecking "Auto-load Subtitles" doesn't disable the internal subtitle renderer or gray out the Subtitles context menu during playback.

Unchecking "Enable built-in audio switcher filter" and restarting MPC-BE doesn't gray out the Audio context menu during playback.

[Aleksoid1978]

Originally Posted by cyberbeing

Unchecking "Auto-load Subtitles" doesn't disable the internal subtitle renderer or gray out the Subtitles context menu during playback.

Unchecking "Enable built-in audio switcher filter" and restarting MPC-BE doesn't gray out the Audio context menu during playback.

"Auto-load Subtitles" - it's for auto-load external subtitle.

"Enable built-in audio switcher filter" & Audio Context Menu - they are different things, they have nothing in common.

[filler56789]

Originally Posted by alexins

MPC-BE

Very

Many

[cyberbeing]

Originally Posted by Aleksoid1978

"Auto-load Subtitles" - it's for auto-load external subtitle.

"Enable built-in audio switcher filter" & Audio Context Menu - they are different things, they have nothing in common.

So you're saying those are intentional changes you've made to MPC-BE compared to MPC-HC?

I don't care so much about Audio menu, but there should be a way to completely disable the internal subtitle renderer from loading any subtitles, which also prevents it from being enabled via context menus or hotkeys during playback. In MPC-HC the "Auto-load subtitles" check-box has that function, but it doesn't seem to have been replaced anywhere in MPC-BE.

[Aleksoid1978]

Originally Posted by cyberbeing

So you're saying those are intentional changes you've made to MPC-BE compared to MPC-HC?

I don't care so much about Audio menu, but there should be a way to completely disable the internal subtitle renderer from loading any subtitles, which also prevents it from being enabled via context menus or hotkeys during playback. In MPC-HC the "Auto-load subtitles" check-box has that function, but it doesn't seem to have been replaced anywhere in MPC-BE.

I don't care how it's work in MPC-HC. But - it's work in MPC-BE. If you uncheck "Auto-load subtitle" - there is no Menu with subtitle list. In popup menu you can show only sub-menu with Subtitle Options.

[cyberbeing]

The problem is that having the Subtitle menu accessible when it's non-functional will lead to confusion when VSFilter or some other subtitle filter is used.

[Aleksoid1978]

Originally Posted by cyberbeing

The problem is that having the Subtitle menu accessible when it's non-functional will lead to confusion when VSFilter or some other subtitle filter is used.

No. It's sub-menu does not interfere VSFilter or other subtitle filter.

[fairchild]

Thanks, will give this a go and report any problems that I experience if any.

[wanezhiling]

http://i.imgur.com/QEu3s.png

http://i.imgur.com/tpzgY.png

Where is ** ?

[clsid]

Why isn't there a public source repository so we can view individual changes?

Is there a list of changes and bugfixes compared to MPC-HC?

[ney2x]

I'm glad there's an official thread here for MPC-BE. I already switched player from MPC-HC to MPC-BE. I like the icons / GUI very much! I hope you replace the default Subtitle Filter to xy-VSFilter. Thanks!

[alexins]

Originally Posted by clsid

Why isn't there a public source repository so we can view individual changes?

The next three months, the source repository is not available for free access. After a time, we may make the transition from a closed cycle development to the open.
Personally for you, I can grant access because you always acted like a gentleman.

Is there a list of changes and bugfixes compared to MPC-HC?

At the present moment, the ChangeLog is available in Russian language only.

[alexins]

Originally Posted by ney2x

I'm glad there's an official thread here for MPC-BE. I already switched player from MPC-HC to MPC-BE. I like the icons / GUI very much! I hope you replace the default Subtitle Filter to xy-VSFilter. Thanks!

At the current stage of development, it is not included in our top-priority tasks. Maybe later...

[turbojet]

Thanks for this, I really like that it's darker, less distracting then the old BE mod and putting the time counter on the status bar is a great idea.

One issue is preventing me from switching to it from BE 4360 is save window size and/or position is unreliable, works maybe 50% of the time. I like to watch in full window mode but half the time it's opening as a window with the same resolution of the video. Any chance for a fix?

Also a few requests:
- Use a wider font or bold for time so it's easier to read.
- Option to auto hide title bar, Splayer has this, and while frame only with no borders has some effect, it breaks save window size/position on old be mod and it's also nice to have access to the title bar on demand.
- Option to hide toolbars in window mode, could work just like fullscreen mode hiding.

[cyberbeing]

Originally Posted by Aleksoid1978

No. It's sub-menu does not interfere VSFilter or other subtitle filter.

That doesn't make it any less confusing to users.

[Aleksoid1978]

Originally Posted by clsid

Why isn't there a public source repository so we can view individual changes?

Why did you decide that we have SVN?
We upload to public source code for project.

[Superb]

Well, it does say "SVN Build: 1122" in the About window... :P

EDIT:
- Love the seekbar preview feature. Nice touch there! But "Use the preview in the search"? How about something like "Show video preview on the seekbar" (or something similar)?
- MPC-HC's "Output" settings tab looks better.
- Any chance for a "Lite" version?
- Any chance to change the default subtitle rendering resolution to "Desktop"?
- Why doesn't the window auto-resizes to the video's resolution when you open a file? Changed defaults? How do I make it act like it did in MPC-HC?
- Program's icon looks great.
- "Logo" settings tab can be removed IMO.

[Aleksoid1978]

There is no Lite version be.