It was developed as a closed-source application, but later relicensed as free software under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. The original Media Player Classic was created and maintained by a programmer named 'Gabest' who also created PCSX2 graphics plugin GSDX.
Media Player Classic Japanese MPC 6.4.8.3 audio playback on Wine The active forks are Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) by clsid2 (same developer known as clsid responsible for MPC 6.4.9.1), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) by aleksoid.
This project is now principally maintained by the community at the Doom9 forum. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack. The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Media Player Classic ( MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema ( MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition ( MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. English, Russian, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian
