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MPC-BE 1.8.5

Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. 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. The BE mod (Black Edition Mod) is a skinned version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, much better looking than the plain old MPC.

MPC-BE 1.8.5 changelog:

AviSplitter

  • Improved support for VP9 and AV1 video.

MatroskaSplitter

  • Improved support for VP9 and Apple ProRes video.
  • Improved work with unstable sources.

MpegSplitter

  • Added support for AV1 video.

MPCVideoDec

  • Improved support for VP9 video.
  • Added the ability to hardware decode slightly non-standard AV1 videos.
  • Speeded up copying of video frames for CopyBack modes (optimizations from the LAV Filters project were used).

MpcAudioRenderer

  • Fixed crashes in some situations.
  • Improved Push method.

YouTube

  • The default format is now VP9 720p + Opus.
  • Fixed merging of saved VP9 and AAC streams using ffmpeg.exe.
  • Added checks for availability of the URL being opened.
  • Improved yt-dlp support.
  • Added the ability to select the default language as the preferred audio track language.

Player

  • Fixed saving of video frame image with subtitles when using MPC Video Renderer.
  • HLS M3U files are no longer processed as normal playlists, but are passed to the source filter as is.
  • Added the ability to save the "Show milliseconds" setting.
  • Added settings "Controls size" and "Use Blur Behind effect (Windows 10 and above)".
  • Added OSD settings panel.
  • Added a Debanding shader.
  • Various interface fixes.

Installer

  • Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.9.9.
  • Updated MPC Script Source 0.2.9.
  • Updated Bulgarian translation (by jekovcar).
  • Updated Romanian translation (by Andrei Miloiu).
  • Updated Slovak translation (by PEPEK).
  • Updated Japanese translation (by tsubasanouta).
  • Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation (by wushantao).
  • Updated German translation (by Klaus1189).
  • Updated Turkish translation (by cmhrky).
  • Updated Hungarian translation (by mickey).
  • Updated Spanish translation (by IPeluchito).
  • Updated Italian translation (by mapi68).
  • Updated Korean translation (by Hackjjang).
  • Updated Dutch and Chinese (Traditional) translation (by beter).

Updated libraries

  • ffmpeg n7.2-dev-2722-gfb65ecbc9b;
  • Little-CMS git-lcms2.17-31-g9ac94ea;
  • MediaInfo git-v25.04-121-gf842d2fea;
  • ZenLib git-v0.4.41-76-gf5f6974.