At 13.5 MB, it is a lightweight player for advanced users and professional developers and editors that play various file formats on a regular basis.Media Player Classic is an easy to use tool that is free to use and lets you play all types of media files and formats on your computer. All these functionalities are compatible with SSE2-capable CPUs and Windows devices running Windows XP or higher. MPC-HC also supports DirectX Video Acceleration for Intel, NVIDIA, and ATI video cards when you’re using H.264 and VC-1 codec, providing you hardware-acceleration for playback. The output of this is fast and high-quality decoding and postprocessing of MPEG-4 ASP, H.264, and Flash Video formats. All its functions are based on the DirectShow architecture so you can find DirectShow decoding filters built-in to the player. The program also contains a MPEG splitter and a VCD/SVCD/XCD Reader that supports playback VCDs and SVCDs. It supports subtitles and codecs for pulse-code modulation, MPEG-2 audio, 3GP, Dolby Digital AC3, and DTS audio.

Media Player Classic is a media player with built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video. All versions of the free media player are maintained by the MPC-HC community at the Doom9 forum.

Its active forks are the Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and the Media Player Classic - Black Edition. The program and its source code are based on the K-lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack.

MPC-HC is capable of playing Video CD, Super Video CD, and other digital optical disc storage formats automatically all necessary codecs have been installed in the program. Media Player Classic is an open-source media player for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems.

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