Description of Freeware (Last Update: 6 January 2008) :

Media Player Classic is the perfect substitute for Windows Media Player. Estetically is identical to version 6.4 and has the same lightness in terms of ram occupation, but it has much more usefull functions (see "Features"). That's what Microsoft should have done since a long time instead focusing on skins, favourites and similar sillyness.

Features:

There are many differences, but nothing too invasing for user; infact estetically the two players are identical. Here are some:

1. With right and left keys it's possible to go forward/backward of one single frame
2. With ctrl + right/left it's possible to skip one predefinite quantity of frames
3. With ctrl + up it's possible to change faster the speed of reproduction
4. It's possible to visualize with media player Quicktime and RealMedia movies (but that programs must be installed)
5. In full screen modality it's possible to show a scroll bar putting the mouse in the lower portion of the screen
6. In full screen it's possible redimension images and adopt a cinema format or a tv format
7. It work as a DVD player too
8. Keys are completely customizable
9. It can show subtitles