#Skins media player classic home cinema software#
#Skins media player classic home cinema Pc#

If I ever find myself in a situation where a more вЂadvancedвЂ™ player is struggling then immediately IвЂ™ll load up MPC Home Cinema and on the same PC with the same video file the problems cease. The main appeal to me has to be the sheer simplicity of the application it will load in literally a second and rarely skips a frame or misses a beat. In the last few years, asides from the name change, a number of new features have been integrated in to this new release including additional video decoders, several bug and vulnerability fixes and a 64-bit version for those with compatible versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The player is based on the old Media Player Classic application which was being developed up until the original author ceased development back in 2006. Media Player Classic Home Theatre can also support Quicktime and Realtime formats with the use of additional software. It also has built-in codecs for LPCM, MP2, AC3 and DTS audio along with H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support, DivX, Xvid, and Flash Video formats. Out of the box Media Player Classic Home Theatre includes support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, VCD, SVCD and DVD playback.

#Skins media player classic home cinema software#

The compensation for the primitive looking interface is that the 3mb application is capable of playing a huge number of audio and video files without the need for any additional software or codecs. There are no fancy skins, no modern looking icons and no ribbon style interface what you simply get is a blank screen along with play, stop, pause, rewind and fast forward buttons, a volume control and a series of options running along the top of the application in an old school grey drop-down menu. I expect few users to know this specific version off the top of their heads so simply refer back to the version in your memory that could be described as looking вЂparticularly primitive and datedвЂ™. The user interface for Media Player Classic looks just like the old Windows Media Player 6.4 which was bundled with Windows ME and early versions of Windows XP. Rather than performing any degree of troubleshooting I always fall back to the trusty player вЂMedia Player Classic Home TheatreвЂ™ which despite a complete lack of both bells and whistles always performs admirably. One of the most common problems I experience when playing movies and videos on my home PC is poor lip syncing caused by the sound and video not marrying up perfectly.