Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) 1.6.0 Build 6767 Multilingual

Media Player Classic Black Edition is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. Media Player Classic - BE is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project, contains additional features and bug fixes. The BE mod (Black Edition Mod) is a skinned version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, much better looking than the plain old MPC. MPC-HC BE Mod is usually newer because they use the latest SVN the most up-to-date version of the code.

You can use this efficient open source media player to watch your favorite movies or listen to music, as it supports numerous formats. MPC-BE is a user-friendly media player that supports numerous video and audio formats, allowing you to render almost any file you want without any problems. Following an uneventful installation, the application enables you to open local files in its main window. It also provides you with the possibility of streaming online videos or music on your computer, on condition that you have an Internet connection, simply by entering the URL address of the source file. MPC-BE can even play files from DVDs, Blu-ray discs, or other devices.

The program features a series of basic functions, namely 'Play', 'Pause', 'Stop', 'Jump To', 'Full Screen', 'Zoom', 'Filters', 'Shaders', increase, decrease or mute 'Volume'. You can navigate between the various media files in a folder, rendering the ones you like and skipping the ones that do not appeal to you. Items can be added to 'Favorites' so you can access them more easily.

Moreover, MPC-BE offers support for opening subtitles, while also allowing you to search for them online, using opensubtitles.org as a default website. After playing a file, the utility can 'Play Next in the Folder', 'Exit', 'Shutdown' or 'Restart' your computer.

MPC-BE lets you choose the preferred 'Rendered Settings', such as 'Output Range' (either 0-255 or 16-235), 'Presentation', 'Color Management' ('Input Type', 'Ambient Light' or 'Rendering Intent', 'Vsync' ('Accurate', 'Alternative') or 'GPU Control'.

Almost all functions have a hotkey assigned, thus if you feel more comfortable working with your keyboard, you can very well do that. Additionally, you can modify them, to make it easier for you to remember and use them. Similarly, it is responsive to scrolling, meaning you can decrease or increase the volume for instance, just by using your mouse.

To summarize, MPC-BE is an intuitive piece of software that enables you to play your favorite media files with ease, providing you with a wide array of adjustable options, to enhance your viewing or listening experience.

Whats New

MP4Splitter
Extended support for PCM audio ('ipcm').
The analysis of the average bitrate of audio tracks has been removed. This will speed up the opening of some files.
Improved support for files with tracks with offset timestamps.
Changed the format of the output pins and the list of audio tracks in the player.
Fixed distortion of frame proportions when using the 'pasp' atom in some cases.

OggSplitter
Fixed reading of metadata in some files.

MpegSplitter
Fixed MPEG Audio track detection.

AudioSplitter
Added support for Cue Sheet inside 'TXXX' tag.

RealMediaDecoders
Fixed work of the RealAudio decoder.
Removed compilation of x64 decoders. Decoders didn't work because there is no RealMedia library for x64.

MPCVideoDec
Eliminated high load on the system with frequent navigation on H.264 and MPEG-2 videos when using the D3D11 decoder.
The MVC decoder information is now available through the IExFilterConfig interface.
Added support for "copy-back" mode for D3D11 decoder.
Added support for NVDEC decoder for NVIDIA video cards.
Added support for output in YUV444P16 format ('Y3[0][16]').
Fixed output format setting for some codecs.

AudioSwitcher
Optimized auto volume control code.
Added audio processing with "compand" audio filter (included in FFmpeg).
Added dithering when outputting to Int16, if the sound was of higher bit depth before.

MpcAudioRenderer
Fixed freezing at the end of playback in some cases.
Corrected sample format selection for WASAPI Shared mode when "Windows Sonic for Headphones" is active in Windows 10.
Reduced size of MpcAudioRenderer.ax.
Added dithering when outputting to Int16, if the sound was of higher bit depth before.
Added reset button.

VideoRenderers
EVR-CP and Sync Renderer no longer require d3dx9_43.dll to render statistics text.
Removed the ability to disable desktop composition (Aero) on Windows 7.
Uses more correct locking of D3DDevice from different threads for EVR-CP.

Subtitles
Texture size 2560x1600 changed to 2560x1440.

Youtube
Improved retrieval of video metadata.
Added error output for videos with restrictions.
Added recognition of links like "youtube.com/shorts/".
For videos VP9 and AV1 with a frame size of 360p or less, select the lowest audio quality so that the audio bitrate is no more than the video bitrate.
Added sorting of formats when opening via youtube_dl.
Fixed slow playback of some links.
Subtitle support has been improved.
Added support for yt-dlp and other analogs of youtube-dl. In the settings you can specify the name of the executable file or the full path. Added search for an executable file in the system registry in the "App Paths" branches. Fixed search for an executable file in folders specified in the system PATH variable.

Player
Reworked saving of many settings. The values of these settings will not be inherited when upgrading from older versions of the player.
The history of open files and URLs is now saved in the history.mpc_lst file. Added a window for viewing history.
Bookmarks are now saved in the favorites.mpc_lst file.
Statistics information is now updated after navigation when playback is paused.
Fixed DVD-Video playback with built-in filters.
Open file/URL dialog now automatically removes enclosing quotes from given paths.
Fixed shift and enlargement of the main window when hovering over the cover of the audio file displayed above the taskbar.
Added the command "Add to playlist from clipboard" (Ctrl+V).
Removed "Disable desktop effects (Aero)" option.
The ability to call the properties of the active video renderer in the "Video" settings panel during playback has been implemented.
Fixed working with Blu-ray playlists and chapters.
Added support for System Media Transport Controls.
The values of 33% and 67% for the option "After starting playback, fit window to screen" are now interpreted as 1/3 and 2/3.
Added visual separation of external and internal subtitles in the subtitle menu for VSFilter.
Fixed crash when outputting a scrollbar in exclusive mode with unknown duration.
Other minor fixes and internal optimizations.

MPCBEShellExt (explorer extension)
Improved operation for users with limited rights.

Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation (by wushantao).
Updated German translation (by Klaus1189).
Updated Hungarian translation (by mickey).
Updated Dutch and Chinese (Traditional) translation (by beter).
Updated Turkish translation (by cmhrky).
Updated Portuguese (Brazil) translation (by Siegfried Janke).
Updated Japanese translation.
Updated Ukrainian translation (by arestarh1986).

Updated libraries
dav1d git-0.9.2-69-g396122d;
Detours git-v4.0.1-96-g45a76a3;
ffmpeg git-n4.5-dev-2772-g6c45d34e50;
libflac git-1.3.3-85-gb358381a;
libpng git-v1.6.37-36-ga37d48365;
Little-CMS git-2.12-39-gc07b7e3;
MediaInfo git-v21.09-16-g6ce198a2;
nanosvg git-ccdb199;
rapidjson git-v1.1.0-665-g00dbcf2c;