Software · Media players & centers

MPC-HC

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback.

Completely free
Windows
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: GPL-3.0 — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: WindowsEstablished by Windows: Winget
Publisher: MPC-HC Team
Latest version: 2.8.5
Source code: github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Overview

MPC-HC is a media player, available on Windows.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
“Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open-source video and audio player for Windows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of MPC-HC is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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