is a compact
Media Player . The application has similar look and feel as the old light-weight
Windows Media Player 6.4. Underneath, however, it is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player.
Media Player Classic was created and is currently maintained by a programmer named "Gabest". Gabest originally developed Media Player Classic as a closed source application, but later on he made it
Open Source . Media Player Classic is licensed under the
GPL and has its own
SourceForge project called ''Guliverkli''.
A large number of the codecs, readers, and splitters are also available separately from the ''Guliverkli'' project page.
This player is capable of decoding filter has been present in MPC for a while, which makes MPC suitable for AAC playback in mp4, and an alternative to
Winamp and
ITunes .
Although this player is primarily based on the
DirectShow architecture, if installed on your computer, it can also use the
QuickTime and the
RealPlayer architectures to play their native files.
Media Player Classic supports native playback of
OGM and
Matroska Container Format s.
MPC supports playback and recording of
Television if a supported
TV Tuner is installed.
Recently, gabest posted on his
news page about a , which was accused of previously violating the GPL with
CherryOS , a PowerPC emulator..
