
I consider this a major drawback of the program. If you don’t feel good about installing updates from the Internet, you can follow the same path but you’ll have the nag screen pop up each time you open a media file.ĭon’t worry about the update. I ignored the prompt and went ahead and closed the message box. When I launched the application, I got a message that said my DirectX End-User Runtime was outdated I was asked to install the June 2010 release for the program to function properly. All I had to do was click on the application file and the program is ready to be used. On downloading the zip file for Media Player Classic Home Cinema (available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions), I learnt that I don’t have to install the program. If you do not fancy installing such a player in your system and are looking for a better option, you could consider Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which works with Windows NT to Windows 7. Other players would offer you to locate the codec by downloading it from a website.

Some players would just tell you that the particular format is not supported and that is just about it. If you throw at them a proprietary or a little- known media format, they would not be able to recognize it because they don’t come with the codec for the particular media format. The trouble with software media players is that most of them only play the popular formats.
