MPC-BE
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Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) is a fork of MPC and MPC-HC. It moved away from MPC's aim to mimic the look and feel of Windows Media Player with updated player controls and provides additional features on top of MPC-HC such as a video preview tooltip when...
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- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
Russia
Platforms
- Windows
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Developed by
Alexander Vodiannikov Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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Video & Movies, Audio & MusicGitHub repository
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- Updated Jun 18, 2025
Comments and Reviews
I don't think there is a better media player than this. I used to use the MPC-HC but because I didn't like the appearance, (yes, it's super ugly), MPC-BE was a perfect solution.
Works extremely well. Now that I have more experience of it I have found that it often takes appreciable time with 'opening' displayed. During this time the video itself is being displayed but the windows as a whole is unmovable and otherwise inoperable.
It's a good alternative to VLC but the only thing that you can't do is set as default video player which for me is not good.
You can associate it with video/audio/playlist file during installation. It's also very easy to set it as default video player from OS.
A great successor to MPC, very similar to the MPC-HC. However, MPC-HC is only receiving security and bug fixes, MPC-BE is receiving feature updates.
It's a continuation of MPC-HC, which having been on the net since the mid 90s, is let me tell you, the best media player ever made. VLC is trash by comparison and always has been.
It's still in development, but I rediscovered MPC-HC which is too under development, and being an integral part of K-Lite Codec Pack. It's a very nice, compact package to set up MPC-HC with madVR.
There is nothing it can't play, lightweight, customizable, visually appealing, can be portable, practical to use. Still waiting for a Linux version tho.