MPC-BE (Media Player Classic: Black Edition) is a fork of MPC-HC (Media Player Classic: Home Cinema), which in turn is a fork of the original MPC.
Media Player Classic - BE is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666), contains additional features and bug fixes.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/ (accessed 2025-04-09)
MPC-HC stopped being developed in 2017, so it isn't getting any more updates, meanwhile MPC-BE is still under development as of 2025.
v1.7.13 is released and farewell
July 16, 2017 XhmikosR
v1.7.13, the latest, and probably the last release of our project…
For quite a few months now, or even years, the number of active developers has been decreasing and has inevitably reached zero. This, unfortunately, means that the project is officially dead and this release would be the last one.
https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/ (accessed 2025-04-09)
![A window titled [virtualcuriosities.com] Video by khanhhoangminh .mp4 - MPC-BE x64 1.8.3. Its menubar: File, View, Play, Navigate, Favorites, Help. The main pane has a video of four puppies in a box. There is a progress bar under the main pane. In it, the title of the video is written. A bar under the progress bar has several buttons, including pause, stop, go to previous, go to next, an unknown right arrow icon, and eject. Two text buttons, AUD and SUB. On the right side of the bottom bar the text GPU can be read, a speakers icon, and a volume bar. The statusbar reads "Playing" on the left side and has the timestamp 00:00 / 00:10 on the right right.](https://www.virtualcuriosities.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mpc-be-20250410.webp)
![A window titled "[virtualcuriosities.com] Video by khanhhoangminh.mp4". Its menubar: File, View, Play, Navigate, Favorites, Help. The main pane displays several puppies in a box. Under the main pane there is a progress bar, and under it several buttons: a play button, pause button, stop button, two buttons with arrows to the left and two with the arrows to the right, and one button that is a rectangle with a right arrow. On the right side of this bar, a speakers icon next to a volume slider. The statusbar reads Playing [H/W] on the left side and on the right side the timestamps 00:01 / 00:10 next to a pair of speakers.](https://www.virtualcuriosities.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mpc-hc-20250410.webp)