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. You can even just let it pick up the ICC profile configured in the operating system.Generally, from users' perspective, there aren't many big differences between the two players. You can load a 3DLUT for display calibration if you want, but for mpv, you would more likely load an ICC profile and have it generate the correct LUT automatically. Mpv supports display calibration and HDR conversion as well. I feel like all the trendy super-resolution algorithms introduce too many ringing, aliasing and strange watercolour-like artefacts, so I much prefer mpv's EWA Lanczos filter, though if you want, there are a number of super-res algorithms available as mpv user-shaders, including SSimSuperRes and NNEDI3.

madVR has NGU, which mpv doesn't have, and it has error-diffusion dithering, which mpv doesn't have, so if you need those, the lack of madVR support could be a deal breaker, but the difference in quality between those algorithms and the ones in mpv is fairly subjective. You can't use madVR with mpv, but that doesn't mean you can't have high quality scaling and dithering.

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