Media Player Classic Home Cinema

[COKEDUDEUSF]

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/guliverkli-gabest.html

Could someone clarify this "The original author Gabest has stopped releasing updates to the MPC Guliverkli MPC since 2006 so we continued the Guliverkli project under the name of Home Cinema including many bug fixes and 64 bit support."

Media Player Classic was updated on 2009.07.06 to 6.4.9.1.

http://www.free-codecs.com/Media_Player_Classic_download.htm

Which version is better to use and why?

Edited September 15, 2009 by COKEDUDEUSF

[CoffeeFiend]

Could someone clarify this "The original author Gabest has stopped releasing updates to the MPC Guliverkli MPC since 2006

MPC's homepage is here. The latest official release is dated August 18th 2007. As for v6.4.9.1, it was released on 2008-10-05, and it was mostly a bugfix (compiled with new libpng, which is still outdated) but otherwise still the same stale project.

"so we continued the Guliverkli project under the name of Home Cinema including many bug fixes and 64 bit support."

That part is self-explanatory I believe.

Which version is better to use and why?

MPC HC, hands down. LOADS more great features and updates. DXVA support for H.264 and VC-1, 64 bit versions, uses the new EVR renderer, better playback support using built-in codecs, built-in subtitle support, ... So much new stuff I couldn't possibly list half of it. There's no reason to keep using the old outdated MPC.

[COKEDUDEUSF]

Where did you get the date 2008-10-05 from? This website said it was released on 2009.07.06.

http://www.free-codecs.com/Media_Player_Classic_download.htm

[CoffeeFiend]

On this page (it's also the release date of the Win9x package with the same version number). It's very easy for anyone to put the wrong date on a web page anyways. That date you're mentioning seems to be the date the page was last updated. Then again, it's not even an official build, so there's no way of knowing for sure (the last SVN commit was many months ago, and 99.9% of the code in SVN hasn't been updated in 3+ years)

MPC has been stale for quite a while. And there's nothing that it does that MPC HC doesn't do, or doesn't do better.

[GrofLuigi]

For fresh builds of MPC-HC, one would want to go to XvidVideo.RU.

GL

*Edit: better link

Edited September 15, 2009 by GrofLuigi

[Martin H]

Besides MPC-HC, then there's the Guliverkli2 project by clsid, and that is where those newer MPC builds comes from which isn't labeled MPC-HC...

Guliverkli2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/

Doom9 thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=128616

This project is based on the latest source code from the original Guliverkli project. The modifications that we have made include library updates, some tweaks and several bug fixes. We have also fixed all known security vulnerabilities

The project is meant for ppl which is content with the original MPC and just want's the newer library/security fixes.

Personally though, i would use MPC-HC

[COKEDUDEUSF]

On this page (it's also the release date of the Win9x package with the same version number). It's very easy for anyone to put the wrong date on a web page anyways. That date you're mentioning seems to be the date the page was last updated. Then again, it's not even an official build, so there's no way of knowing for sure (the last SVN commit was many months ago, and 99.9% of the code in SVN hasn't been updated in 3+ years)

MPC has been stale for quite a while. And there's nothing that it does that MPC HC doesn't do, or doesn't do better.

Thx. Thats what I get for not going to sleep last night. I couldn't read .