MPC-HC
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7recommend
0warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Jun 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It's nice to see that someone revived MPC-HC (again).”
“MPC-HC is still being maintained”
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“MPClassic or VLC worked fine”
switched from Windows Media Playeron “Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-lice…”
“ditched VLC in favor of MPV and MPC-HC.”
“so I switched to mpc-hc and never looked back.”
switched from VLCon “What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 10
“It's nice to see that someone revived MPC-HC (again).”
“MPC-HC is still being maintained”
“MPClassic or VLC worked fine”
“Yes: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc”
“ditched VLC in favor of MPV and MPC-HC.”
“so I switched to mpc-hc and never looked back.”
“maybe it's time to give MPC a try again”
“I'm still using the Media Player Classic Home Cinema to this day.”
“https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc”
“These days I use the currently maintained fork of MPC-HC”