Media Player Classic
(MPC) is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players. It and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack.
Media Player Classic was originally 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 hosted under the guliverkli project at SourceForge.net. The project itself is something of an umbrella organization for works by Gabest.
This project is now principally maintained by the community at the Doom9 forum. The currently active fork is called "Media Player Classic Home Cinema".
== Features ==
=== Format support ===
Media Player Classic is capable of [[VCD]], [[SVCD]], and [[DVD]] playback without installation of additional software or codecs. MPC has built-in codecs for [[MPEG-2]] video with support for subtitles and codecs for [[LPCM]], [[MPEG-1 Audio Layer II|MP2]], [[3GP]], [[Dolby AC-3|AC3]], and [[DTS Coherent Acoustics|DTS]] audio. MPC also contains an improved [[MPEG]] splitter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. On October 30, 2005, Gabest added [[MPEG-4 Part 14|*.mp4]] and [[MPEG-4 Part 17|MPEG-4 Timed Text]] support.<ref>[http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=101835 Doom9 - Media Player Classic supports Matroska v2, *.mp4, *.mov, and MPEG-4 Timed Text]</ref> An [[MPEG-4 Part 3|AAC]] decoding filter had once been present in MPC.
=== DirectShow ===
Media Player Classic is primarily based on the [[DirectShow]] architecture and therefore automatically uses installed DirectShow decoding filters. For instance, after the open source DirectShow decoding filter [[ffdshow]] has been installed, fast and high quality decoding and postprocessing of the [[MPEG-4 Part 2|MPEG-4 ASP]], [[H.264]], and [[Flash Video]] formats is available in MPC. [[#MPC-HC|MPC-HC]] can play videos in these formats directly without [[ffdshow]].
MPC provides [[DXVA]] support for newer [[Intel]], [[NVIDIA]] and [[ATI (brand)|ATI]] video cards when using an [[H.264]] or [[VC-1]] [[codec]]. This provides hardware-acceleration for playback.
In addition to DirectShow, MPC can also use the [[QuickTime]], [[RealPlayer]], and [[SHOUTcast]] codecs and filters (if installed on the computer) to play their native files.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/installing-media-player-classic-step-step-guide.htm|title=Installing Media Player Classic - A step by step guide|work=Gizmos Freeware Reviews|date=2012-06-15|accessdate=2013-01-23}}</ref> MPC can use an [[INI file]] in its application folder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=42|title=Media Player Classic v6.4.9.1|work=The Portable Freeware Collection|date=2012-08-20|accessdate=2013-01-23}}</ref>
{{Clear}}[[File:Media Player Classic-6.4.8.3 on Wine.png|right|thumb|325px|Japanese Media Player Classic 6.4.8.3 audio playback on [[Wine_(software)|Wine]]]]
=== Matroska and Ogg containers ===
Media Player Classic supports native playback of [[OGM]] and [[Matroska]] [[Digital container format|container format]]s. However, OGM audio playback is limited by a lack of support for the CoreVorbis DirectShow filter, which mainly affects newer OGM files (c. 2006).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://web.archive.org/web/20060224081849/http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/| title=Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC| publisher=illiminable.com| accessdate=2007-12-29| date=2006-02-24}}</ref>
=== TV tuners ===
MPC supports playback and recording of [[television]] if a supported [[TV t
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