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Media Player Classic Home Cinema(MPC-HC) is a free audio and video player for Windows. The new Media Player Classic Home Cinema has Anti tearing option, Subtitle synchronisation, Support Vista 64bits and more, Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support (see specific section for details), Better support for Windows 10, including a release for 64 bits platform, Support for EVR renderer, Bugs and vulnerability fixes. Requires Windows Vista or newer.
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Download MPC-HC 2.8.0 64-bit 22MB Win64
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Download the old official MPC-HC 1.7.13 here (for Windows XP) or more old versions here
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2.8.0
Changes from 2.7.4 to 2.8.0:
Updates:
Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82-5-g77c25
Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.7.2560
Changes/additions:
Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
Added "sort by date" option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as "Load subtitles".
A few other fixes and small improvements.
A big thanks to my fellow developer Adipose for doing a lot of great work this summer.
Changes from 2.7.4 to 2.8.0:
Updates:
Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82-5-g77c25
Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.7.2560
Changes/additions:
Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
Added "sort by date" option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as "Load subtitles".
A few other fixes and small improvements.
A big thanks to my fellow developer Adipose for doing a lot of great work this summer.
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I'm only giving them low points because these errors should have been fixed a long time ago:
There are problems with file associations. It doesn't associate all types that it should.
After uninstalling a program, some entries remain in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Media\Media Player Classic
There are problems with file associations. It doesn't associate all types that it should.
After uninstalling a program, some entries remain in the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Media\Media Player Classic
Review by _mileena_ on
Jun 26, 2026 Version: 2.7.3
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10
Functionality: 1/10
Value for money: 1/10
Overall: 6/10
The sharpest video viewer? VLC, by a bit. And more highlight detail.
The best GUI " " ? PotPlayer, by a mile.
The best balanced " " ? MPC-HC.
MPC has OS hooks (delete file, play next file etc.), thumbnail previews!, and near-VLC sharpness.
It's about as nerdy as VLC (filter and shaders? WTF?!) but worth its extra work. So, overall, the
best damn video player out there!
The best GUI " " ? PotPlayer, by a mile.
The best balanced " " ? MPC-HC.
MPC has OS hooks (delete file, play next file etc.), thumbnail previews!, and near-VLC sharpness.
It's about as nerdy as VLC (filter and shaders? WTF?!) but worth its extra work. So, overall, the
best damn video player out there!
Review by on
Jun 10, 2026 Version: 2.72
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
I changed from Windows 10 to Windows 11. PC with 2 displays (PC monitor + TV; NVidia Geforce 4060, latest driver; Windows 11 25H2 with latest updates). My workfloww ist the same since many many years: Open MPC-HC on PC monitor in window mode (save window size and window position checked in MPC-HC options) > double-click into running video > full screen video on TV > double-click into running video > window mode on PC monitor. So far so good. BUT: Since Windows 11 double-click into video on TV causes the window to collapse to half its size on PC monitor. If you double-click again for full screen on TV an again for window mode on PC monitor, the window collapses again in half of the half size you had before. You can do so again an again, every double-click in full screen mode causes a new reduction by half of the window on PC monitor. In the end, you only have a tiny window on your PC monitor where you can no longer see the video. If you want to have your prefered size of MPC-HC window on PC you have to fix the size manually after every full screen mode on TV. I tried several earlier versions of MPC-HC it's all the same bug. I also tried a lot of different settings together or without the "zoom" option in MPC-HC - always the same bug. Also the same if you install MPC-HC on a new clear Windows 11. It seems that the options "save window size and save window position" in MPC-HC don't work on windows 11 with 2 monitors and full screen video on the second monitor.
Review by on
Oct 24, 2025 Version: 2.5.4
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 7/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by on
Jun 6, 2025 Version: 2.4.3
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
It's beyond great, it's a great video player, it's super.
Review by bilek on
Jan 17, 2025 Version: 2.3.9
OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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