Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a powerful yet lightweight media player for Windows. Based on the classic Windows Media Player 6.4 design, MPC-HC expands on the original with a host of additional features and enhancements, making it an ideal choice for home cinema use.
Get the best possible viewing experience with Media Player Classic Home Cinema. This powerful player is engineered to handle even the most demanding video formats, like x.264. It uses your computer’s graphics card for GPU acceleration, which dramatically improves video quality and playback smoothness. No more stuttering or lag — just pure, high-quality video from beginning to end.
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is designed to minimize system resource usage. This makes it an ideal media player for Windows, even on older computers with slower CPUs, ensuring smooth playback without compromising on performance.
Get the best possible viewing experience without straining your computer. Modern graphics cards are built to handle video playback with ease, thanks to DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA). This technology offloads the demanding task of video decoding from your CPU to your graphics card, freeing up resources and ensuring smooth, uninterrupted playback, even on older machines.
Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) comes with an embedded video decoder. This technology enables the player to efficiently handle high-quality video formats such as H.264 and HEVC with minimal impact on your computer's CPU, ensuring a smooth and responsive viewing experience.
Supported Decoding
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 playback. Media Player Classic supports VCD, SVCD, and DVD playback without requiring any additional software or codecs.
Offering comprehensive media support, this player features built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video, LPCM, MP2, AC3, and DTS audio. Its improved MPEG splitter further supports VCD and SVCD playback through its dedicated VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. Full .mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text support has been added, and an integrated AAC decoding filter makes it ideal for AAC playback with MP4 files.
MPC-HC provides robust support for modern and common video formats, featuring H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA hardware acceleration, as well as DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video. MPC functions alongside QuickTime and RealPlayer architectures when needed. Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats.
Supported Video, Audio, and Image File Formats
WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, MIDI, MPEG, MPG, MP2, VOB, AC3, DTS, ASX, M3U, PLS, WAX, ASF, WM, WMA, WMV, AVI, CDA, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, D2V, MP4, SWF, MOV, QT, FLV
Additional Media Player Classic Home Cinema Features:
- Play HDR video. This requires using MPC Video Renderer or madVR.
- Option to remove Tearing.
- Expanded Windows 11 support alongside a new 64-bit platform release.
- Support for EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer)
- Supports Subtitles.
- Playback and recording of television are supported if a supported TV tuner is installed.
- Creation of a minidump when Media Player Classic Home Cinema crashes.
- OSD (On-Screen Display)
- Shuttle PN31 remote control support
- Support for Multi-Monitor configuration
- Pixel shader to convert BT601 – BT701
- YV12 Chroma Upsampling pixel shader
- Language Translations.
- All features from the Guliverkli MPC Project from Gabest.
- Remote control for Android devices.
Media Player Classic Home Cinema – Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| ✓ Plays virtually all popular audio and video formats without requiring additional codec packs. | ✗ Official development has largely slowed, with fewer feature updates than modern media players. |
| ✓ Lightweight and fast, delivering smooth playback even on older Windows computers. | ✗ The interface looks dated compared to newer multimedia applications. |
| ✓ Supports hardware-accelerated video decoding to reduce CPU usage during HD and 4K playback. | ✗ No built-in media library for organizing large music or video collections. |
| ✓ Offers advanced playback controls, subtitle support, customizable filters, and keyboard shortcuts. | ✗ Lacks integrated streaming services and cloud media synchronization features. |
| ✓ Completely free and open-source, with no ads, bundled software, or subscription requirements. | ✗ Some advanced playback settings can be confusing for users unfamiliar with media codecs and filters. |
What's New in MPC Home Cinema 2.7.4
Release Date 2026-07-20
- Updated LAV Filters to version 0.82-4-gab7ca
- Updated MPC Video Renderer to version 0.10.6.2555
- MPC Video Renderer is now the default renderer on most systems. Previously, EVR-CP was the default. MPCVR is a more advanced modern renderer with support for HDR video.
- MPC-HC will detect your GPU(s) (once) after updating to this new version and will adjust the video renderer and hardware decoding settings when it makes sense.
- Added an option to show the playback timer next to the seekbar instead of inside the statusbar. By default, it is placed on the right side. There is an advanced option to place it on the left side. Tip: seekbar height can be adjusted in the options. Timer text size is scaled accordingly.
- Added a new customizable viewing preset (hotkey 4). By default, this hides the menu and statusbar compared to the normal viewing preset (hotkey 3).
- Added an advanced option to specify the default viewing preset when starting the player. By default, it remembers the last used
- viewing mode.
- Added a submenu to the playlist context menu for adjusting the playlist location.
- A few crash fixes, bug fixes, and small improvements.
Official Homepage – https://mpc-hc.org
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
Size: 20.5 MB
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