The software once made headlines for its smooth video-playing experience. So, listen to music and watch movies – all with this fast and resource-friendly software. With its support for all common audio and video file formats, it improves your entertainment experience. But if you prefer hardware decoding, the convenience of pairing discrete graphics, as well as the preview pane, MPC-BE is your second to none choice.Media Player Classic brings cinema to your home. Thus, to sum up, if you are diehard LAV Filter lover, MPC-HC is your better choice.

MPC-HC on the contrary needs addons to cope with that. In addition, reported by some users, MPC-BE supports WASAPI directly, sends the correct number of audio channels over HDMI to the AVR without any intermediary. Also, MPC-HC is integrated graphics enforced, therefore is more troublesome than MPC-BE in terms of shipping a discrete graphic like MadVR. Since Media Player Classic Home Cinema cooperates with LAV filter, it is more efficient in decoding high-res video codecs like HEVC, H.2656/264, VP9/8, which, yet on the other hand results in the less effective support for HW decoding, in comparison with MPC-BE, due to DXVA1.0 incompatibility. The only difference that matters between the two players is the use of LAV Filters. The latest version of MPC-BE is V1.4.6, and the newest version of MPC-HC has already come to 1.7.10. However, MPC-BE is not as frequently updated as MPC-HC. Both the players support many languages and almost all media files.

Some prefer MPC-HC's LAV filters for decoding while others prefer MPC-BE's preview pane on the navigation bar like what YouTube is doing.

Generally, from users' perspective, there aren't many big differences between the two players.

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