Media Player Classic development stalled in May 2006. The project itself is something of an umbrella organization for works by Gabest.

MPC is hosted under the guliverkli project at.

It was developed as a closed-source application, but later relicensed as free software under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. The original Media Player Classic was created and maintained by a programmer named 'Gabest' who also created PCSX2 graphics plugin GSDX. Media Player Classic Japanese MPC 6.4.8.3 audio playback on Wine The active forks are Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) by clsid2 (same developer known as clsid responsible for MPC 6.4.9.1), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) by aleksoid. This project is now principally maintained by the community at the Doom9 forum. Variations of the original MPC and its forks are standard media players in the K-Lite Codec Pack and the Combined Community Codec Pack. The original MPC, along with the MPC-HC fork, mimic the simplistic look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provide most options and features available in modern media players. Media Player Classic ( MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema ( MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition ( MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. English, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian

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