What is MPC-BE?
MPC-BE (Media Player Classic: Black Edition) [sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/] is a free and open source video player for Windows. It supports opening AVI, MP3, WebM, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WMA, AIFF, and MIDI, among other formats; playing the next file in the same folder; saving the current video frame as an image; plus several other features.
![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)
Is MPC-BE Open Source?
MPC-BE is open source, licensed under GPLv3, and having a repository both on SourceForge and on GitHub [github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE].