Media Player Classic (MPC) is a compact free software media player for Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4 and uses a completely different codebase, integrating many options and features found in modern media players. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Media_Player_Classic_En. ... “Software development” redirects here. ... Code complete redirects here. ... is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Windows redirects here. ... The term natural language is used to distinguish languages spoken and signed (by hand signals and facial expressions) by humans for general-purpose communication from constructs such as writing, computer-programming languages or the languages used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... This article is about media players in general. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... GPL redirects here. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... This article is about media players in general. ... Windows redirects here. ... Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ...

Media Player Classic was created and is currently maintained by a programmer named "Gabest". Gabest originally developed Media Player Classic as a closed-source application, but later decided to make it open source. Media Player Classic is licensed under the GPL and has its own SourceForge.net project called Guliverkli. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... GPL redirects here. ... SourceForge. ...

A large number of the codecs, readers, and splitters are also available separately from the Guliverkli project page.

Features

MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 playback

This player is capable of VCD, SVCD and DVD playback, without the need to install any additional software or codecs. Media Player Classic has built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video with support for subtitles and codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3 and DTS audio. It also contains an improved MPEG splitter that supports subtitles on SVCDs and supports direct playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader. On October 30, 2005 Gabest added *.mp4 and MPEG-4 Timed Text support. [1] An AAC decoding filter has been present in MPC for a while, which makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in mp4, and an alternative to Winamp and iTunes. VCD can stand for: Video CD Voice command device Value Change Dump (IEEE 1364 Verilog) Value-Centered Design This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD) is a format used for storing video on standard compact discs or CD-Rs. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... MPEG-2 is a standard for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information [1]. It is widely used around the world to specify the format of the digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial (over-the-air), cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. ... Linear pulse code modulation (LPCM) is a method of encoding audio information digitally. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2, sometimes Musicam) is an audio codec defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3. ... Description Dolby Digital is the trademark for Dolby Laboratories AC-3 audio coding system. ... DTS Coherent Acoustics is the full name for the audio format standard usually known as just DTS. It is covered in U.S. Patent 5,956,674. ... The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ... is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other parts of the MPEG-4 standard, see MPEG-4. ... MPEG-4 Part 17, or MPEG-4 Timed Text is the text based subtitle format for MPEG-4. ... MPEG-4 Part 3 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-3) is the third part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ...

DirectShow, QuickTime and RealPlayer architectures

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 DivX, Xvid and H.264 formats is available in MPC. Logo of the DirectX Media SDK - the first time DirectShow was distributed under its current name. ... ffdshow is an open source decoder (and encoder) mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e. ... This article is about the video codec. ... Xvid (formerly XviD) is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard. ... H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). ...

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Matroska and Ogg containers

Media Player Classic supports native playback of OGM and Matroska container formats. However, OGM audio playback is limited by a lack of support for the CoreVorbis DirectShow filter, which mainly affects newer OGM files (c. 2006). The crux of this problem is that MPC is hard-coded to use an older Vorbis filter, so even if one installs newer filters, MPC is unable to use them.^[1] OGM meaning Ogg Media File, was developed by Tobias Waldvogel. ... // The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free multimedia container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. ... A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized codecs. ...

TV tuners

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Forks

Due to a stall in development of Media Player Classic in May 2006 many bugs were left unfixed. The community at the Doom9 forum has since maintained their own builds; one build is meant for fixing bugs and updating outdated libraries with the release labeled as 6.4.9.1;^[2] while the other one, Media Player Classic Home Cinema, is for adding new features while fixing bugs and updating libraries.^[3] Gabest, the main developer, stated that development of Media Player Classic is not dead in March 2007, but has made no progress in updating the source code.^[4] For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page may meet Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion. ... For other uses, see March (disambiguation). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

GPL violation

In April 2005, Gabest posted on his news page about a GPL violation stating that, though discouraged, he does not know how to take action against the infringing parties. Interestingly, one of the infringing applications, vx30, is a product of Maui X-Stream, which was accused of previously violating the GPL with CherryOS, a PowerPC emulator. April 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Hamas and Islamic Jihad have declared, in principle, their intention to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). ... GPL redirects here. ... The CherryOS logo CherryOS was a PowerPC G4 processor emulator based on PearPC for x86 Microsoft Windows platforms, announced on October 12, 2004. ...

See also

• VSFilter
• QuickTime Alternative
• Real Alternative
• Winamp Alternative
• VLC media player
• List of media players
• Comparison of media players
• Combined Community Codec Pack

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References

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External links

• Guliverkli - The SourceForge.net project page of Media Player Classic.
• Guliverkli2 - The SourceForge.net project page of patched build.
• MPC-HC - The SourceForge.net project page of Media Player Classic Home Cinema.
• KMPlayer's response to GPL violation