Best Media Player Classic alternative ?

[pcslookout]

Sense Media Player Classic has ended development

 

[corkyg]

VLC Media Player works for me.

 

[ronbo613]

VLC, PotPlayer. Bummer to see MPC-HC throwing in the towel. I still use it as my #1 video player.

 

[PeterRoss]

The alternative of the same type? Doesn't exist It makes everyone very sad, but such is life, open sources projects either make it or break it. To be fair it lasted quite a while, as for an alternative, I just VLC nowadays.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Media Player Classic - Black Edition. It's a fork that's pretty darn close.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

 

[zebrax2]

I think some people in the Doom9 forums volunteered to help with the development of MPC-HC when it was announced that it is officially dead. The github page looks like it has some recent commits as well. *fingers crossed*

 

[Anubis]

I think some people in the Doom9 forums volunteered to help with the development of MPC-HC when it was announced that it is officially dead. The github page looks like it has some recent commits as well. *fingers crossed*

yea its still going

MPC-BE
MPV
Potplayer

are all popular alternatives

 

[PeterScott]

Media Player Classic - Black Edition. It's a fork that's pretty darn close.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

Better IMO. I switched to this fork a long way back.

 

[PeterRoss]

Interesting, haven't heard of MPC-BE, I will do more research on that topic, in the mean time, how does it differ from a standard version?

 

[jkauff]

For one thing, it has a million internal filters, but you can disable them all and install LAV filters as external to match how MPC-HC handles things. The UI is different (better, IMO) but not that much. More options to choose from, which can be a good or a bad thing--defaults are good, though. Also, the built-in audio processor is less buggy than MPC-HC's (although both use Sanear code).

Best of all, there are more developers to support future improvements.