MPC-HC is a superb media player but it is not surprising to see this happen. Interest in maintaining open source Windows applications written in C/Win32/C++/MFC is going to keep dropping as there are not as many people with the skills or motivation to do it. Especially for something as complex as a media player.<p>Even on the Linux side I have seen a drop in the number of full blown media players being developed, they are mostly front ends to things like mpv and mplayer.
Farewell old friend. For those looking for an alternative: you should try MPV. It's a video player for the geeks/hackers <a href="https://mpv.io/manual/stable/" rel="nofollow">https://mpv.io/manual/stable/</a>
I have been using MPC-BE for many many years and it is being actively developed with developers feedback and response on Doom9.<p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/" rel="nofollow">https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/</a>
MPC-HC was always my go-to. Starts up instantly and the performance was always superb, much better than VLC in seeking. I don't know what it is, but more often than not, VLC pauses for a moment when seeking to a random part of the file, while MPC-HC has always been instant.<p>I suppose I'll try out MPV.
Damn. I remember all the debates on /a/ (4chan anime board) on what are the best options and presets... for watching anime. Looking back it was kind of silly but we were able to do that because the player was so well built.<p>On Linux/macOS I use mpv - I recommend it!
Maybe it's time for mpc-qt: <a href="https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt</a><p>It reimplements mpc-hc UX using qt for the UI and libmpv for the heavy lifting. The issue with this one is that it doesn't have public builds yet, but it has been in active development for years.
> K-Lite contains a custom build of MPC-HC that contains additional fixes and improvements compared to the officials builds. This will continue in the future. The internal codecs that MPC-HC uses are also still actively maintained.<p><a href="http://codecs.forumotion.net/t2644-mpc-hc-is-dead#14216" rel="nofollow">http://codecs.forumotion.net/t2644-mpc-hc-is-dead#14216</a>
Very unfortunate, MPC-HC was so simple to use, has a slick UI inspired by MS Media Player and to quickly review/seek videos it was the very best. (much faster than VLC for that task)
I really want to use mpdn because it uses WMF but I haven't gotten results with it like I have using MPC-HC and madvr. Anybody know any other program that's as advance as mpc, compatible with madvr and uses Windows media foundation over directshow?
As a potential replacement, there's <a href="https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cmdrkotori/mpc-qt</a> which uses mpv backend, but has the MPC look and feel.
An excellent player with a ton of great features. However I'm not sure if it ever caught up to VLC in terms of performance. Specifically it was around 10x slower at seeking in H.264 video compared to VLC. When used on low performance machine (Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz + 7200 rpm HDD), this resulted in a sub-second seek time in VLC compared to over 5 seconds in MPC-HC when viewing 10Mbit bitrate video. Especially annoying when I wanted to rewatch a single moment over and over again.
Is it dead or done?<p>MPC-HC is just a DirectShow frontend, or at least, that's how I used it. Filters do most of the work.
And no one seems to care about DirectShow anymore but that's mostly because everything works fine.<p>It will die eventually, because Microsoft is trying hard to kill DirectShow (to replace it with something inferior...) and the opensource guys mostly go to mplayer, but for now, updates are not really necessary.
Those looking for a great alternative try using MPV.<p><a href="https://mpv.io/" rel="nofollow">https://mpv.io/</a><p><pre><code> $ brew install mpv
$ mpv ~/Media/my-movie.mp4
</code></pre>
And you're off!
I've used MPC for quite a while in the past, but have since moved to <a href="https://potplayer.daum.net/" rel="nofollow">https://potplayer.daum.net/</a><p>It's super feature rich, with (in my opinion) a much nice interface than e.g. VLC.
Well, nuts. I really liked MPC-HC as part of the CCCP. I'll check out some of the alternatives offered in this thread. Hopefully one follows the slim design and flexibility of MPC.