Media Player Classic – Black Edition (aka MPC-BE) is based on the original “Media Player Classic” project (Gabest) and “Media Player Classic Home Cinema” project (Casimir666). MPC-BE contains additional features and bug fixes. With MPC-BE you can play almost all types of video and audio files. MPC-BE also supports hardware decoding and deinterlacing. With MPC-BE, you can watch Youtube videos directly inside the player by just copy and pasting the Youtube link inside it. MPC-BE also allows you automatically mount ISO images and a lot more.
AudioSplitter
Added support for multiple embedded images in FLAC files.
Added “Description” reading for binary data in APE tag.
MP4Splitter
Fixed crashes and freezes on some MP4 files.
MPCVideoDec
Minor optimizations.
AudioSwitcher
The distribution of side and rear channels in 7.1 output has been improved.
MpcAudioRenderer
Fixed audio-video desynchronization when changing playback speed in some situations.
YouTube
Correction of audio track language selection for yt-dlp.
Player
Added the IDS_ADDITIONAL_AUDIO_PATHS parameter, which allows translators to specify additional paths for external audio tracks.
Standard frequencies for display auto-switching have been expanded to 120 fps.
Fixed launching the player with the “/play /fullscreen” keys without specifying a video file on the command line (the file from the current playlist will be opened).
Added preview of embedded images in Properties > Resources.
Minor change to hotkeys.
Support for embedded images in audio files has been expanded. This requires support in Windows Imaging Component (WIC).
Added retrieval of metadata from the “WM ASF Reader” filter.
Installer
Compiling the installer requires InnoSetup 6.5.2 or later.
Added support for system themes (dark or light). Inno Setup 6.6.0 or later is required for build.
Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.9.19.
Updated MPC Script Source 0.2.15.
Updated Bulgarian translation (by jekovcar).
Updated Chinese (Traditional) and Dutch translation (by beter).
Updated Romanian translation (by Andrei Miloiu).
Updated German translation (by Klaus1189).
Updated Hungarian translation (by mickey).
Updated Turkish translation (by cmhrky).
Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation (by wushantao).
1.9.0 – 2026-06-27
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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.
