Media Player Classic Black Edition is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. Media Player Classic - BE is based on the original Media Player Classic project and Media Player Classic Home Cinema project, contains additional features and bug fixes. The BE mod (Black Edition Mod) is a skinned version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, much better looking than the plain old MPC. MPC-HC BE Mod is usually newer because they use the latest SVN the most up-to-date version of the code.