The standard player "Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC - HC)" finally finishes updating with v1.7.13, the cause is due to lack of developers

Media player software that has been developed and updated for 11 years since 2006 "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC - HC)"Was finished updating with v1.7.13 released on July 16, 2017.

V 1.7.13 is released and farewell · MPC-HC
https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/


"MPC-HC" is a media player for Windows. Although it can be used for free, it was excellent software that advertisement and tool bar are never displayed, moreover it is lightweight and has wide range of customization.

The reason behind the MPC-HC was the "Media Player Classic (MPC)"is. "Windows Media Player" was originally attached to Windows as a standard media player, but when major version upgrade to "Windows Media Player 7.0" in 2000, the appearance / function side has been largely changed and does not start A lot of people occur. MPC had an appearance like "Windows Media Player 6.4" before upgrading, but the function was expanded more than WMP 6.4, and it was like a tray.


However, MPC renewal stopped in May 2006. Born after deriving from the MPC project was MPC - HC which added a new function to MPC and fixed the bug.

Eleven years after the derivation, the release frequency of MPC - HC has been falling considerably, but at last it was announced that "v1.7.13" updated on July 16, 2017, is probably the last update It was. The main cause of suspension of updating is the shortage of developers, and if there are people who want to participate, there seems to be a continuation of renewal, but also on v1.7.11 release on March 6, 2017, about the plight Since it is said that comments were written and no improvement was made, hope seems to be light.

V1.7.11 is released · MPC-HC
https://mpc-hc.org/2017/03/06/1.7.11-released/

Software called "Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC - BE)" is derived from MPC - HC, the official version is stopped at "v.1.4.5" on 24th September 2015, but the night version "V1.5.1 build 2548 beta" of the build is released on May 8, 2017.

MPC-BE download | SourceForge.net
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/