Media Player Classic V6.4.9.1    Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by webfork on 11 Feb 2010 4MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3119) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (17) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Novan: This is da best player ever!!
Must have.
Small and efficient [2006-03-16 22:28]

 Bertl01: I prefer VLC-PLAYER. You get every movie playing because it has the needed codecs already inside. [2006-03-17 07:01]

 Luke: Im amazed how great this portable program is. Bloody beautyful !! [2006-04-09 18:40]

 PJ: Not entirely clean, it creates a folder called "Media Player Classic" in %appdata% and writes a default.mpcpl file there. [2006-06-10 15:06]

 kyle: My favorite media player. Like PJ notes, it's not truly portable. Perhaps some programmer out there could write a wrapper to store settings in the exe folder. [2006-09-14 18:14]

 Tibs: I guess my only problem with the app is that it needs codecs installed - if you wanna watch media with it without skipping or you have to do with for example xvid videos. Subtitles are making the program lag on some older macjines as well. Other than that, all I can say is I'm proud to be hungarian.. :)) [2006-10-10 11:15]

 Hank7: To make MPC write settings to your portable drive go to "View"->"Options"->"Player" and check "Store settings to .ini file". But it will still leave the playlist PJ mentioned :-(
Otherwise, still my player of choice. [2007-01-06 13:41]

 Danix: Here the link to download a really portable ("X") version that save the playlist mentioned in the \User folder. ;-)
http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.199 [2007-06-03 10:58]

 Rick: There is a version of this called "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema" that incorporates ffmpeg to decode formats that the original MPC will not, without addional codecs installed. http://tibrium.neuf.fr/. However, for some FLV files, I had to change the Playback Output DirectShow Video setting to "System Default" from the factory setting of "Overlay Mixer". Other than that, it looks and operates like the original. [2008-03-16 13:43]

 JD: And combining the above two (X-version and HomeCinema) will create the perfect one in my opinion.
I used the X-version on my stick and replaced the exe with (ok, almost 5meg bigger, but thats ok) the HomeCinema version. [2008-03-17 06:24]

 Volgecherev: The homecinema edition also supports hardware acceleration (dvxa). For me this is quite fantastic. My ATI HD3450 plays 1080p (nearly) without CPU resources. No need for PowerDVD or WinDVD any more. [2008-08-30 07:12]

 Anonymous: WinPenPack(the "X" version) appears to install a virus or malware program during the install; it keeps tripping my antivirus programs. How annoying. Guess it's VLC Portable for me. [2008-10-08 11:40]

 meh: You can disable the writing of defaul.mpcpl in %appdata% by going to "View" -> "Playlist" -> In the Context-Menu of the Playlist uncheck "Remember items". [2009-01-13 02:03]

 aussiebuddha: The version from tibrium.neuf.fr does not play realmedia .rmvb files.

Does anyone know a really portable version of this that plays everything as VLC? [2009-05-20 19:01]

 jazzruby: Homecinema v1.3.1249.0 released yesterday. Still writes to Current_User\Software\Gabest\Filters, but it no longer creates "Media Player Classic" in %appdata%, it creates default.mpcpl in same folder as mpc and can be created/deleted like 'meh' said. The video renderer was set to EVR Custom Presenter on my Vista SP2 and complains about some DX9 Runtimes when opening videos. I have DX10 and by setting it to System Default it seems O.K. [2009-08-28 00:13]

 dianoga: Many new changes in the latest version of MPC-HC as jazzruby said. They even changed the exe name! I propose MPC-HC has its own entry now. [2009-09-01 17:11]

 Aterdin: MPC Homecinema now winPenPack portable app http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.1228
In this version all play list and recent files paths are normalized. [2009-09-03 12:50]

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