Home Cinema
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema version 1.6.5 running on Windows 8 |
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| Initial release | March 29, 2006; 6 years ago (2006-03-29) |
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| Stable release | 1.6.4.6052 / October 1, 2012; 53 days ago (2012-10-01) |
| Written in | C++ |
| Platform | IA-32 and x86-64 |
| Size | 5.6 MB |
| Available in | 23 languages |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | mpc-hc.sourceforge.net |
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 continued the project in two main veins. The version known as Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 was meant for fixing bugs and updating outdated libraries; its branch's development is mostly inactive. The other version, called Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), is meant for adding new features, as well as fixing bugs and updating libraries. Gabest, the main developer of the original version, stated in March 2007 that development of Media Player Classic is not dead but that he was unable to work on it.
MPC-HC updates the original player and adds many useful functionalities including the option to remove tearing, additional video decoders (in particular H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 with DirectX Video Acceleration support), Enhanced Video Renderer support, and multiple bug fixes. There is also a 64 bit-version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema that supports Windows XP x64, Windows Vista x64, and Windows 7 x64. As of version 1.4.2499.0, MPC-HC is the first open-source media player to implement color management support.
MPC-HC supports 23 languages, including Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
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