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Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) v2.6.3

👉 Free and open-source video and audio player for Windows.

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows. It is known for its simple and effective user interface while offering a large amount of functionality. As a DirectShow player, it also provides flexibility and extensibility through third-party filters.




Features
• Modern GUI Theme (Dark or Light)
Options > Player > User Interface
When using modern theme it is also possible to change the height of the seekbar and size of the toolbar buttons.
• Video preview on the seekbar
Options > Player > User Interface
• Play HDR video
This requires using MPC Video Renderer (download below) or madVR.
After installation these renderers can be selected here:
Options > Playback > Output
Tip: If you want an easy to use all-in-one package that contains MPC-HC and these renderers, then use K-Lite Codec pack.
• Ability to search for subtitles
Press D for manual search.
Or enable automatic search in: Options > Subtitles > Misc
• Adjust playback speed
Menu > Play > Playback rate
The buttons in the player that control playback rate take a 2x step by default. This can be customized to smaller values (like 10%):
Options > Playback > Speed step
Adjusting playback speed works best with the SaneAR audio renderer. This also has automatic pitch correction.
Options > Playback > Output > Audio Renderer
• MPC-HC can remember playback position, so you can resume from that point later
Options > Player > History
• You can quickly seek through a video with Ctrl + Mouse Scrollwheel.
• You can jump to next/previous file in a folder by pressing PageUp/PageDown.
• You can perform automatic actions at end of file. For example to go to next file or close player.
Options > Playback > After Playback (permanent setting)
Menu > Play > After Playback (for current file only)
A-B repeat
You can loop a segment of a video. Press [ and ] to set start and stop markers.
You can rotate/flip/mirror/stretch/zoom the video
Menu > View > Pan&Scan
This is also easily done with hotkeys (see below).
• There are lots of keyboard hotkeys and mouse actions to control the player. They can be customized as well.
Options > Player > Keys
Tip: there is a search box above the table.
• You can stream videos directly from Youtube and many other video websites
Put yt-dlp.exe in the MPC-HC installation folder.
Then you can open website URLs in the player: Menu > File > Open File/URL
You can even download those videos: Menu > File > Save a copy
Tip: to be able to download in best quality with yt-dlp, it is recommended to also put ffmpeg.exe in the MPC-HC folder.
Several YDL configuration options are found here: Options > Advanced
This includes an option to specify the location of the .exe in case you don't want to put it in MPC-HC folder.
Note 1: You also need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Note 2: yt-dlp nightly build (very latest version made daily)
• Besides all these (new) features, there have also been many bugfixes and internal improvements in the player in the past years that give better performance and stability. It also has updated internal codecs. Support was added for CUE sheets, WebVTT subtitles, etc.

Supported operating systems:
• Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11

Supported languages:
Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, English, English British, Galician, Indonesian, Korean, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Vietnamese

Changes:
v2.6.3 03-03-26
Updated LAV Filters to version 0.81-6-gb54d5
In filter properties, the info of pin connections now shows a bit more details.
A few fixes for rare crashes.
Several small fixes and improvements.








This download is for the Windows 64bit installer version (very bottom of page).
All other download assets are below:



Windows 32bit installer
Windows 64bit portable
Windows 32bit portable
MpcVideoRenderer64_v0.9.10.2433.zip
MpcVideoRenderer_v0.9.10.2433.zip



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Downloads Views Developer Last Update Version Size Type Rank
6,758 47,508 MPC-HC Team Mar 12, 2026 - 11:53 2.6.3 21.94MB EXE 5/5, out of 106 Votes.
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