Media Player Classic for Win9xME

Media Player Classic (MPC ) is a compact media player for Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players. She and her heirs are standard media player on K-Lite Codec Pack. Media Player Classic has been initially created and maintained by a programmer named "Gabest". It was developed as a closed-source application, but later relicensed as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. MPC is housed in the project Guliverkli at SourceForge.net. The project itself is something of an umbrella organization works by Gabest. Media Player Classic is capable of VCD, SVCD and DVD playback without needing to install any additional software or codecs. It has integrated codecs for MPEG-2 video with support for subtitles and codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3 and DTS, and also contains an improved MPEG filter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD / SVCD / XCD Reader. On October 30, 2005 Gabest added *. mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text. An AAC decoding filter has been present in MPC for some time, which makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in MP4, and an alternative to Winamp and iTunes. Media Player Classic is primarily based on the DirectShow architecture, and therefore automatically uses installed DirectShow decoding filters. For example, after the open source DirectShow decoding filter ffdshow has been installed, fast, high quality and post-processing decoding DivX, Xvid, H.264 and Flash Video formats available in MPC. MPC provides support DXVA beta for newer nVidia and ATI video cards when using an H.264 or VC-1. This provides hardware acceleration for playback. In addition to DirectShow, MPC can also use QuickTime and RealPlayer architectures (if installed on the computer) to play their native files. Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats. However, OGM audio playback is limited by a lack of support for CoreVorbis DirectShow filter, which mainly affects new OGM files (c. 2006). The crux of the problem is that MPC is hard-coded to use a filter over Vorbis, even if one installs newer filters, MPC is unable to use them.