Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. The program allows you to play movies in a window or in full screen mode, add subtitles, play music tracks, and create playlists. It is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666).
v1.2 [Jun 10, 2013]
- SPEEX decoder (Speex Audio);
- MPC Audio Renderer - completely rewritten, now it fully supports WASAPI Exclusive/Shared modes. Uses event mode for rendering.
- Added internal volume control.
Sound mute is also possible for Bitstream;
- MPC Video Decoder: dynamic video stream / aspect ratio / frame size changing during playback is supported now;
- MP4Splitter - Speex (Speex Audio) support;
- MPEGSplitter - added (improved) support for Blu-ray with Seamless branching;
- G2M video decoder (Go2Webinar);
- LCDShader by JanWillem32;
- XSPF (XML Shareable Playlist Format) support;
- VMware Video ('VMnc') support;
- Handling playlists (multiplaylist) from YouTube.com;
- Opening and saving links from Vimeo.com;
- Ability to set paths (templates) for automatic audio tracks loading;
- Support for AAC stream playback in ShoutCastSource;
- Support for description tag in ShoutCastSource;
- Support for DVB subtitles in .wtv (Windows Media Center TV File);
- MPEG-1/MPEG-2 software decoders based on ffmpeg;
- Full support for Apple's MPEG2 in MP4/MOV Splitter ;
- Parsing TrueHD in MPEGSplitter;
- VC1-I decoding without DXVA;
- Ability to open the file open dialog for adding files from the playlist;
- Forced one-window mode;
- Filter priority management system - choosing filters for specific file formats;
- Alternate handling of Youtube video: the stream is downloaded into a temporary file in the current user's TEMP folder, and then played; the temporary file is deleted after playback;
- Ability to choose desired format for Youtube clips;
- Support for bitstreaming DTS-HD/E-AC3 (DDPlus)/TrueHD through HDMI;
- Tag Specifications support. The information on the author, track's title, etc. is read and displayed;
- Support for reading/displaying Album's data for FLAC, WavPack and MusePack; - Unsychronised lyrics support;
- Support for V210 in MP4/MOV Splitter; - v210 video decoder;
- Ability to specify image quality upon saving frames and thumbnails;
- Speex support in OggSplitter; - MPEG1 support in AviSplitter;
- Support for .avi's created with Matrox's MPEG-2 in AviSplitter;
- OPUS support in MatroskaSplitter;
- ALAC support in MatroskaSplitter;
- MEDIASUBTYPE_Divx ('Divx') support;
- Support for reading EDID info from monitor/TV;
- Support for files with an ID3 Tag in the beginning in MusePackSplitter;
- Automatic ShellExt registration from MPC-BE;
