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Media Player Classic
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# Media Player Classic - Home Cinema



Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. It is famous and loved for its simple and effective user interface, providing an excellent user experience. It offers a huge amount of functionality. Being a DirectShow player, it also allows flexibility and extensibility through third party filters.



## Development Status



The player is mature, stable, reliable, and already provides a huge amount of features.



I currently do not accept any new feature requests. But that does not mean that the player is not getting any new features or other improvements. In fact, a huge amount of improvements have been made since I have taken over development in 2017.



There are three primary reasons why I currently do not accept any new feature requests:


1) I and my fellow developers are too busy working on our own ideas and wishes for MPC-HC, and do not have any time or desire to work on other stuff.


2) 90% of all requests are for functionality that is already available in the player, sometimes for over a decade, but users are too lazy/stupid to have a look at the options and player menus, or do a simple Internet search for help.


3) For certain extra functionality there are already good solutions available. Such as an [equalizer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/).



The internal codecs are developed in an external project ([LAV Filters](https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters)). That project is actively maintained, and MPC-HC will be updated periodically with the latest codecs. Same applies to code/files from other external projects that are used by MPC-HC, such as MediaInfo.



If you are a programmer and want to help improve MPC-HC, then you can do so by submitting a pull request containing your patches.



## Overview of features



A lot of people seem to be unaware of some of the awesome features that have been added to MPC-HC in the past years. Here is a list of useful options and features that everyone should know about:

* Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light)


Options > Player > User Interface


When using modern theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.


* Video preview on the seekbar


Options > Player > User Interface

* Play HDR video


This requires using MPC Video Renderer (included) or [madVR](http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=146228).


After installation these renderers can be selected here:


Options > Playback > Output


Tip: If you want an easy to use all-in-one package that contains MPC-HC and these renderers, then use [K-Lite Codec pack](http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm).

* Added support for playback of many new audio and video formats:


For example HEVC (H.265) / VVC (H.266) / AV1 video, and AC4 audio.


* Improved subtitle rendering performance, and ability to use libass. Plus support for WebVTT.

* Ability to search for subtitles


Press D for manual search.


Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc


* Adjust playback speed


Menu > Play > Playback rate


The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):


Options > Playback > Speed step


Adjusting playback speed works best in combination with the SaneAR or MPC Audio Renderer. These two renderers have automatic pitch correction.


Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer

* MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later


Options > Player > History

* You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.

* You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.

* You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.


Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)


Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)

* A-B repeat


You can loop a segment of a video. Press \[ and \] to set start and stop markers.

* You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video


Menu > View > Pan&Scan


This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).

* There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.


Options > Player > Keys


Tip: there is a search box above the table.

* You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites


Put [yt-dlp.exe](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases) in the MPC-HC installation folder.


Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL


You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy


Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put [ffmpeg.exe](https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/) in the MPC-HC folder.


Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced


This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.


Note 1: You also need to install [Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)](https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165255E7-1014-4D0A-B094-B6A430A6BFFC/vcredist_x86.exe)


Note 2: [yt-dlp nightly build](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds/) (very latest version made daily)

Note 3: [yt-dlp fork with Win7 support](https://github.com/nicolaasjan/yt-dlp/releases)

* Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability.



## System Requirements



* Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11



## License



MPC-HC's code is licensed under [GPL v3](/COPYING.txt).