

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. Once the library is setup you’ll be able to play your FLAC tunes in Windows 7 Media Center as well and Windows Media Player 12.Media Player Classic is an open-source media player for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. If you try to use it right away, WMP slows down considerably while updating the library. In fact, if your collection is huge, just walk away and let it do its thing. Just install it by accepting the defaults, and you’ll be glad you did.Īfter installing it, and re-launching Media Player, give it some time to collect all of the data from your FLAC directory…it can take a while. It has a long name but is effective –M4a/FLAC/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player and Media Center (link below). It enables FLAC (and other file formats) to be picked up in the library much easier. We removed all of the other collections and only added the FLAC music directory from our home server.Įven though we were able to get FLAC files to play in WMP and WMC at this point, there’s another utility from SoftPointer to add. Remove the directories you don’t want it to gather contents from in each of the categories.

For example here we’re removing the default libraries it tries to check for music.
