When comparing Splash vs MPC-BE, the Slant community recommends MPC-BE for most people. In the question“What are the best HEVC/H.265-capable media players?” MPC-BE is ranked 3rd while Splash is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose MPC-BE is:
Seek Bar supports thumbnail preview (like Youtube) and chapters marker.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Image Processing
Pro Audio bitstreaming support
Audio bitsteaming to external audio amplifiers is easy to set up and works for all major HD audio formats, such as Dolby, TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio.
Pro Motion / frame interpolation
This is a great feature that works out of the box. Videos are MUCH smoother because of this.
Pro Hardware support for decoding
Hardware decoding for AMD, Intel and NVidia GPUs including iGPUs (integrated GPUs).
Pro Displays preview thumbnails
Seek Bar supports thumbnail preview (like Youtube) and chapters marker.
Pro Supports madVR external Video renderer
madVR is a high quality video renderer (GPU assisted).
Pro Supports most known audio and video formats
Plays various video and audio files, and also supports H.265 (with small file size installation). The player doesn't use a lot of computer resources.
Pro 32-bit & 64-bit support
Pro Built-in YouTube playback support
Can play YouTube videos out of the box. Just drag and drop the URL to the interface.