Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) is a fully customizable, lightweight video player that supports all common video and audio file formats available.
The program is a heavily modified fork of of the well-known Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and uses its own codecs without affecting the rest of your system. It comes with support for a plethora of file formats, such as MPEG, HEVC, H264, H.265, WMV, Quicktime (MOV), DIVX, Real Video, MJPEG, H.261, H.263, HuffYUV, Theora and others, including niche ones, while also allowing you to load content from DVDs and Blu-ray discs, ISO images or 3D movies. It is also possible to load media from external devices and input media URL addresses directly.
Alternatively, an outdated Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) Portable is also available.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) SMPlayer |
What's new? |
StreamReader Fixed freezing in some situations. MatroskaSplitter Fixed duration detection for some files. MP4Splitter Improved ignoring of corrupted video tracks. MPCVideoDec Removed RGB to YUV conversion. Added "Convert to RGB" setting. YouTube Improved YouTube support in the built-in parser. Improved yt-dlp support. Added "Preferred audio format" setting for the built-in YouTube parser. Improved language track selection for region-specific languages that do not have a separate setting. If the audio track language is not found, the default track for this video will be used. Subtitles Fixed crash on some PGS subtitles. Player Added the ability to receive the displayed video frame on a 10-bit display in RGB48 format when using MPC Video Renderer 0.9.0.2326 or later. Fixed playlist operation with clipboard. MPC Video Renderer will be used by default if it is installed and available. Fixed the "Enable dark title" setting. Accelerated cancellation of opening online links. Fixed enabling/disabling shaders on pause in the "Shader Combiner" dialog. Installer MPC Video Renderer will be installed by default. Added MPC Script Source 0.2.5. Updated MPC Video Renderer 0.9.3. Compiling the installer requires InnoSetup 6.4.0 or later. Updated German translation (by Klaus1189). Updated Hungarian translation (by mickey). Updated Chinese (Simplified) translation (by wushantao and nothingshiru). Updated Turkish translation (by cmhrky). Updated Italian translation (by mapi68). Updated Spanish translation (by IPeluchito). Updated Romanian translation (by Andrei Miloiu). Updated Dutch and Chinese (Traditional) translation (by beter). Updated Japanese translation (by tsubasanouta). Updated Korean translation (by midist). Updated Slovenian translation. Updated libraries: dav1d 1.5.1; ffmpeg n7.2-dev-1227-gc6194b50b1; libdivide 5.1.0; libflac 1.4.3; libogg 1.3.5; MediaInfo git-v24.12-12-geb2364e11; nanosvg git-ea6a6ac; rapidjson v1.1.0-761-gd621dc9e. |
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portablesw1123
on 2025-02-18 02:25
The player's latest portable version V1.83's x86 edition creates some reg entries on my PC at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MPC-BE\OnlineServices. Does that make it eligible for the tag 'Stealth'?
joby_toss
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Tested MPC-BE.1.8.3.x64. Followed "How to extract" instructions. No registry entries can be found in my case. |
TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of most audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames and perform any transformations of the text from tags and filenames. Album info available via online databases like gnudb, Discogs or MusicBrainz and includes a built-in audio player.
Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WindowsMedia and MP4 (iTunes) tags. Includes powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features and a playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML, Excel or any user-defined format.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Tagscan.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
What's new? | See: https://www.xdlab.ru/en/history.htm |
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zorro
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Note: starting with actual version 6.18 TagScanner requires the VC-/Universal Runtimes. I stumbled upon because this runtimes cannot be installed on my system. Version 6.17 however works fine. |
KMPlayer is a audio/video player that supports a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MKV, MPEG, OGM, MP4, ASF etc. without any additional codecs installed. It also has full VCD/DVD playback functionality. In addition, it is able to play incomplete/damaged AVI files, or media files that are locked while downloading or sharing.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | PotPlayer Light Alloy |
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apometron
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The Brazilian Portuguese is not the real language, because Files in Brazilian are not "ficheiros". They are called "Arquivos". =( I have to change to English, because Portuguese of Portugal is not my preference. |
MPUI-hcb is a lightweight audio/video player for most formats without requiring external codecs. The program offers support for DVD menus, loading archives including RAR, 7Z and ZIP media, subtitles and lyrics. Subtitle scale video aspect, DVD menu etc. are all mouse-controlled.
The program is a front-end for MPlayer.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. DVD playback creates a %APPDATA%\dvdcss folder. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | GPL v2 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | SMPlayer, MPlayer WW, MPUI |
What's new? | See: https://sourceforge.net/p/mpui-hcb/code/HEAD/tree/ |
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Emka
on 2014-12-06 18:07
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There seem to have been some updates, the files on sourceforge howwever give a date instead of a version number. |
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer and converter that supports resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks, lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and more. It also includes a built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and several Camera RAWs.
The program includes metadata (EXIF) tools including the ability to pull up a map of where a given picture was taken by looking at GPS data.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: |
Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FSViewer.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and help files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | IrfanView, XnView, Imagine |
What's new? | See: [https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm#History |
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g3ose
on 2019-04-17 18:14
it is version 7.0 right now, is portable and free
gcb43
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I fully agree with Miklo, having used FastStone for several years, I really like it: does everything I want almost intuitively.I still use version 6.4 . Tried to use the last version 7.6 but reversed to the previous one because in the last release there is a bug in the Multi-Page File Builder to created an Animated GIF (Alt+M):. the resulting GIF file shows only the first 2 loaded images then stops. |
PotPlayer is a feature-rich media player that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats without any dependency on installed codecs, as well as streaming media and DVD video. The program includes configurable subtitles, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, video equalizer, 3D capabilities, playlist support, bookmarks, audio visualizations etc.
The program can also capture video sequences and record audio, split video and add processing filters. It can sleep or shut down the computer after a timer finishes or at a set time.
Alternatively, PotPlayer Portable is also available.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Optionally, remove the following folders: $COMMONFILES, $PLUGINSDIR, and $SYSDIR |
Similar/alternative apps: | Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, VLC Media Player |
What's new? |
See: https://t1.daumcdn.net/potplayer/PotPlayer/v4/Update2/UpdateEng.html |
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Andrew Lee
on 2023-07-08 08:07
@loin2kolpotoru: Any reference for this? The official website and a couple of places I search seems to indicate that it still supports WinXP.
loin2kolpotoru
on 2023-07-09 14:58
I have personally tried to install latest version of PotPlayer on xp but it displayed error message PotPlayer only supports vista or later os.
Andrew Lee
on 2023-07-10 01:49
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@loin2kolpotoru: Thanks for the info! I have updated the entry and removed XP support. |
IrfanView is a viewer for a wide variety of image, audio and video formats. The program includes batch processing, creation of panoramic images, edition of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotate/crop and effects such as sharpen and blur. Other tools such as screen capture, scanner, slideshow, plugin support and ability to capture icons from EXE or DLL.
Alternatively, IrfanView Portable is also available and updates drive letters and handles registry keys.
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use (the installer is adware) |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | XnView, Imagine, FastStone Image Viewer |
What's new? | See: https://www.irfanview.com/main_history.htm |
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Cornflower
on 2023-12-10 08:43
Also note that virtually every new release updates some plugins, and version 4.65 is no exception. Most users may want to go to https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm and download the 32- or 64-bit package, and dump them into the Irfanview Plugins subdirectory.
Cornflower
on 2024-04-05 13:40
I notice in 4.67 that the OCR plugin is updated. It suggests using the Tesseract OCR, which I suspect is not portable. When I test it I will be looking to see if it can be made portable, and if it works with 32-bit Irfanview (there are a number of limitations with the 64-bit Irfanview so I am staying there).
M1P0
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Starting from ver. 4.67.2, the new OCR plugin can read QR Codes and Barcodes by itself, without any Tesseract. |
GitHub user clsid' fork of Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a lightweight player with broad format support. It includes keyboard shortcuts, audio/video controls, a web interface for remote control and more. The program is derived from Media Player Classic (MPC), a media player that mimics the interface of Windows Media Player 6.4, and adds support for EVR rendering, H.264 and VC-1 video hardware acceleration, bugfixes, additional languages, decoders and more.
Note: this is a fork of the original version that ceased development in 2017.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | SMPlayer |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases |
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MIKLO
on 2017-08-26 13:58
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No matter what IMO Media Player Classic has always been, and will always be the best overall Media Player. I've been using for a very long time on many different OS's and it fulfilled my needs on all of them. I like the look and all the rest, maybe I'm being partial but so what it works 4me :) Great job by the makers so thanks for the hard work. |
streamWriter is a feature-rich Internet radio client with the ability to record both the played stream and any number of other stations simultaneously. The program includes a searchable browser for thousands of available sources of every kind (rock, rap, talk, sports, etc.), an audio splitter that looks for silence to separate tracks, and includes a basic player for recorded files. The program supports scheduled recordings, audio file wish list and block list, and equalizer. Also allows connections with the streamWriter community to report on available radio streams.
Add-ons are available for additional features such as audio conversion, post-processing and tag edition.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: |
Optionally, enable Addons in the File - Settings - Addons menu and check boxes next to required Addons, which will download automatically to the application folder. |
Similar/alternative apps: | RadioSure, Screamer Radio, Pocket Radio Player |
What's new? |
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juverax
on 2024-02-03 20:19
The direct download link does not seem to work, but otherwise the site is alive and well ;>}
Midas
on 2024-02-04 12:51
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Links corrected (hopefully) -- should that happen again, there's also an "Downloads > All builds" page at https://streamwriter.org/en/downloads/builds. |
VLC is a skinnable, feature-rich media player that supports a wide variety of multimedia file and streaming formats. It can play files while they download, from inside RAR files, online radio stations, convert video formats and much more.
The software can also behave as a streaming server for delivering video in unicast or multicast mode.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes. If following "How to extract". |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: |
Optionally, delete unnecessary locales, and avoid optional traces by running (see this) VLC with a custom config like vlc --config=zero-cache containing: [qt] qt-recentplay=0 qt-privacy-ask=0 [core] plugins-cache=0 |
Similar/alternative apps: | MPC-HC, SMPlayer, PotPlayer |
What's new? | See: |
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lwc
on 2021-11-05 04:05
Per the last comment (or rather comments), it's true VLC is infamous for never including the 64 bit in the regular download page.
PAFuser
on 2022-03-07 20:48
Also available from PortableApps.com (32 bit). (64 bit can replace PortableApps 32 bit files.)
MoisheP
on 2023-10-13 14:18
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It might be easier for some to download the Windows installer, e.g., vlc-3.0.19-win64.exe directly from videolan.org and unpack using 7-Zip to the VLC folder. |
SMPlayer is a feature-rich, skinnable player that views most media without any dependency on installed codecs, as well as streaming media, Youtube and DVD video. Audio, video and subtitle settings for individual files are all remembered between sessions so you can start again exactly where and how you left off. Supports subtitle downloading, youtube support, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, equalizer, filters, playlist support and much more.
The program is a frontend for MPlayer and mpv that also works on Linux. Alternatively, SMPlayer Portable (stealth and adjusts paths) and the outdated X-SMPlayer and are also available.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes. Under Options, Preferences, select Advanced, Advanced, and make sure Pass short filenames (8+3) to MPlayer is selected. |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the "portable" 7Z package (32- or 64-bit) and extract using a 7-Zip-compatible program to a folder of your choice. Launch smplayer.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | MPC-HC, VLC, PotPlayer |
What's new? |
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dmiranda
on 2021-08-22 14:04
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It doesn't work on XP anymore. https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-version-of-software-running-on-xp/?do=findComment&comment=1203550 |
mpv.net is a media player based on mpv. It's a highly advanced and extremely configurable player that targets power users. Unlike similar tools, the program uses FFmpeg for decoding instead of relying on DirectShow or Media Foundation. mpv.net adds a modern GUI on top of mpv but retains mpv's command line support.
mpv has OpenGL video output with support for several video scaling algorithms, color management, interpolation, HDR, D3D11VA and DXVA2 hardware video decoding, and more.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\mpv.net |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | SMPlayer |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases |
Light Alloy is a lightweight, feature-rich, customisable media player. The program can play a long list of audio, video, and playlist formats, DVD/Blue-Ray, internet radio stations, and online videos including YouTube. The program supports keyboard shortcuts, global keys and tray control.
Includes available Internet radio recording capability.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LA.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | MPC-HC, PotPlayer, SMPlayer |
What's new? |
See: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://light-alloy.com/releases/ |
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ozziguy
on 2016-12-26 09:01
The Fosshub link does work but not with any download manager
tomcat
on 2024-10-11 08:24
The player doesn't seem to have a stop button, which is both strange and inconvenient.
joby_toss
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Indeed, no skin displays the Stop button and that is indeed strange because there is a shortcut (default Alt+Q) for that action. |
MPlayerGUI is a graphical frontend for MPlayer, a cross-platform media decoder that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX, without additional codecs. It includes a visual equalizer to control brightness/contrast/hue/saturation, playlist and shuffling, right-click context menu etc.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | |
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Arckeron
on 2008-07-10 05:48
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Version 0.5.19 download here: |
Media Player Classic is a powerful and efficient media player that appears as an earlier version of Windows Media Player. You can configure keyboard commands, configure/reorder/disable codecs/filters etc.
Note: There is another fork of Media Player Classic available called
Media Player Classic Home Cinema.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | GDIPLUS.DLL |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes. There are two versions of the player to choose from. The 98/ME version works on all versions of Windows but does not support Unicode. The 2K/XP version only works on WinNT and higher. |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayerc.exe. Select View, Options, Player and check "Store settings to .ini file" to store settings in the application folder instead of the registry. |
What's new? | Added Win7/8 Support |
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dianoga
on 2009-09-01 17:11
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.
Aterdin
on 2009-09-03 12:50
MPC Homecinema now winPenPack portable app http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.1228
Masterbrowser
on 2010-10-27 20:36
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If I am correct, creating an .ini file in the application folder with the same name as the .exe file (eg. mpc-hc.ini or mpc-hc64.ini) and with the first line reading [Settings] will make the application portable. All settings will be written to the ini file and default.mpcpl in the application folder. This will prevent settings to be written to the registry or to the %appdata% folder. |
MPlayer WW is a feature-rich media player that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX without additional codecs. Includes a native UI, options dialog (MEditor, MEditor2) and skin support.
Even more codecs and tools are available in the MPlayer Extra Package. MPlayer WW is a code fork of mplayer.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | DirectX is required if running in Direct3D mode on Vista+. |
Stealth: ? | No. DVDs cause %APPDATA%\dvdcss. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GPL v2 |
How to extract: | Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayer.exe |
What's new? |
See: https://sourceforge.net/p/mplayer-ww/code/ci/master/tree/ |
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Allen
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Anyone know how to install the "Mplayer extra package" listed above? |
Ziepod is an audio podcast manager, RSS & ATOM Feed reader, and Podcast Streamer.
You can search for and play podcasts from within the player (MP3s, etc. using installed codecs).
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Installed Codex |
Stealth: ? | No |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of drive-less absolute path (eg. \docs\personal\work.doc without the drive letter) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Ziepod.EXE. |
Similar/alternative apps: |
gPodder Robert's Podcatcher |
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I am Baas
on 2014-01-30 05:12
Is it stealth?
olliebean
on 2017-03-29 21:11
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This is a great piece of software, but with one major flaw: it can't cope with https. If the feed has an https url, it won't read it. If the feed is http, but the enclosures are https, it won't download them. If anyone knows of a workaround for this, I'd love to hear it. |