Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack.
| Original author(s) | Gabest |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | MPC Community Forum |
| Initial release | May 30, 2003 |
| Final release | 6.4.9.0
/ March 20, 2006 |
| Preview release | Fork by clsid - Final release: 6.4.9.1 Revision 107 / February 14, 2010 |
| Repository | Original: https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Fork: 6.4.9.1 https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/ |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows, ReactOS |
| Size | Original: 2.2 MB (Zip) 6.4.9.1: 2.1 MB (Zip) |
| Available in | 11 languages |
List of languages English, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian | |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | Original MPC on Doom9 MPC 6.4.9.1 on Doom9 MPC 2.0.0 on Doom9 |
This project is now principally maintained by the community at the Doom9 forum. The active forks are Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) by clsid2 (same developer known as clsid responsible for MPC 6.4.9.1), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) by aleksoid.