Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition: All in one media player

Posted Jul 11th 2008 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Video, Windows, Open Source

Media Player Classic is an audio and video player for Windows that looks like Windows Media Player 6.4, but works a bit more like all-in-one media application VLC. Each application is open source, and each can handle almost any audio or video file you throw at it. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition takes the basic version of MPC and adds a few extra features, including:

Support for additional decoders, including H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support
Improved support for Windows Vista, including a 64 bit release
Translation into additional languages

The media player takes up just a few megabytes and doesn't require installation, so you can throw it on a USB flash drive and carry it around with you.

[via gHacks]

Tags: media-player, media-player-classic, media-player-classic-home-cinema-edition

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-11-2008 @ 8:24PM

Danny said...

I've tried MPC-Cinema Edition, but it's too buggy. It's slower at loading video than the regular MPC, and it refuses to run certain videos that the regular version can. If you want something better than the Gabest original, get Shark's MPC revision (http://shark.msfn.org/) instead.

7-11-2008 @ 9:07PM

Eric said...

I use the MPC in the CCCP (Comunity Combined Codec Pack - http://www.cccp-project.net/) and it has played EVERYTHING I've throw at it.

7-12-2008 @ 2:33PM

John said...

@Eric : me too ;)

7-14-2008 @ 7:46AM

supernova_hq said...

Did anyone else notice the title of the movie says Family Guy?

Note: I use VLC for all my video and amarok for all my music.

7-14-2008 @ 7:56AM

Elphizmo said...

@supernova_hq

This is one of Family Guy's random tangent scenes. I don't think the original Elmer fudd / bugs bunny cartoons had blood ;)

7-14-2008 @ 10:40AM

James said...

You think that's bad? Remember that time I had to go to a midget wedding in Mexico?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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