# mpc-hc/mpc-hc

MPC-HC's main repository.  For support use our Trac: https://trac.mpc-hc.org/

Repository: https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mpc-hc
Homepage: https://mpc-hc.org/
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: mpc-hc, c-plus-plus, trac, player, video, audio, cinema, evr, media-player, windows, windows-desktop, h264, mkv, xvid, lav-filters, directshow, lavfilters, x265, mpc, ffmpeg
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-04-24T11:04:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5152, "days_push": 2322, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5283, forks 2019 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:14.178579+00:00)

## What it is
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free, open-source, lightweight video and audio player for Windows supporting most common formats, subtitles, TV tuner playback, and GPU-assisted decoding. Development officially ended in 2017, with the team recommending users switch to alternatives.

## Use cases
- play video and audio files on windows
- lightweight media player for old computers
- watch movies with subtitle support
- play dvb television on a tv tuner card
- gpu accelerated video playback
- customize a media player with pixel shaders and toolbars

## When to choose
- you need an extremely lightweight player that runs on old SSE2-only CPUs
- you want a spyware-free, ad-free windows player with broad format support
- you need subtitle support including BluRay .sup files or DVB/TV playback

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained player - development stopped in 2017
- you need support for modern codecs or recent windows features
- you need a cross-platform player - it is windows-only

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, gui
- domain: media, windows
- platform: windows
- tags: media-player, directshow, ffmpeg, subtitles, lightweight, gplv3, video, desktop

## Member repositories
- mpc-hc/mpc-hc (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:14.178579+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:59:16.746130+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:14.178579+00:00, sha fcaa82452aa3)
  - homepage: https://mpc-hc.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:06.947170+00:00, sha 38ff48697c69)
  - site_page: https://mpc-hc.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:06.959370+00:00, sha e9ebd8bcf4e5)
  - site_page: https://mpc-hc.org/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:06.955973+00:00, sha 09d781feb356)
  - site_page: https://mpc-hc.org/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:54:06.957658+00:00, sha 915ace8332f3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.