Media Player Classic

[cro-man]

Do you feel that most media players, such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player, have become bloatware, overblown applications that need to be slimmed down to their basics --- just playing media?

If so, this is the program for you. It looks and works much like an earlier, classic version of Windows Media Player, way back in the days when it was a simple, svelte program.

In fact, there's not even an installation program; just double-click the file and it runs. Despite its simplicity, it's a great program. It will play just about any kind of media file you can throw at it, and will even play DVDs.

Play media files with this stripped-down media player, reminiscent of early versions of Windows Media Player.

License Type: Free

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP

File Size: 2170KB

http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.p...=3790&s=134" target="_blank">

Edited October 3, 2007 by cro-man

[Mr.Thunderbird]

Hey Cro-man, you might need to link the K-lite codecs pack, it does include the classic player, and a HUGE load of codecs, so you can play 99% of all media

LINK

[cro-man]

Thanks for the link Mr. Thunderbird :welcome:

[Bold_Fortune]

I wrote this some time ago on my site.

I've heard wondrous things about Media Player Classic, the alternative to Windows default Windows Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe). Minimalists have nothing but praise for this player.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...yer_classic.cfm

Did you know, though, that the file size of the one file (mplayerc.exe) is 5.42MB big? While the additional files you need for Windows Media Player 6.4 weigh-in at 2.60MB?

And did you know that Media Player Classic needs one of the files needed by Windows Media Player 6.4 to play *.WMA music files and *.WMV video files: The qasf.dll file.

You can, however, play *.MP3 music files. And You can play *.AVI and *.MPG video files without the qasf.dll file.

But you're still going to need the qasf.dll file to play *.WMA music files and *WMV video files...just as Windows Media Player 6.4 does.

The qasf.dll weighs in at 216KB. 216KB + 5.42MB = more than 2.60MB

Stop here. This is assuming you have trimmed the fat out of DirectX and Windows Media Player 10 like I have in PART 9 of the guide. I keep a slimmed version of WMP 10 on my system, and I don't know which files I keep for it that Media Player Classic may not need.

But if you delete the files I do, keeping but a slimmed version on WMP10, and you would like Windows Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe) to work for you also, put these files back to system32...

Files Needed By Media Player 6.4 (2.60MB):

Needed to start Media Player 6.4 (mplayer2.exe)

msdxm.ocx

Needed to play media files with Media Player 6.4

wmpdxm.dll

Needed to play *.wma music files and *.wmv video files with Media Player 6.4

drmclien.dll ...(FROM PART 3 under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM)

dxmasf.dll

qasf.dll

strmdll.dll

wmpasf.dll

wmv8ds32.ax

Needed to play *.wma music files and to hear sound in *.wmv video files with Media Player 6.4

msadds32.ax

And place this file back in the C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player folder:

mplayer2.exe

[Mr.Thunderbird]

Thanks for the link Mr. Thunderbird :welcome:

No problem Cro-Man, by the way: thanks for all this great stuff you are posting here, VERY useful

@Bold

When I used WPC, I used it because of it's small resource use, WMP10,11 (whatever you like) uses more resources then WPC

[Bold_Fortune]

Absolutely, everyone has his or her own preferences. I was just offering some information.

[Mr.Thunderbird]

Everyone has his or her own preferences.

That's true.

I just forgot to mention that fact

[cro-man]

Absolutely, everyone has his or her own preferences. I was just offering some information.

Thnx for your useful informations