The new MPMP 1.7 release has now a second backend for Windows based on libVLC.

After a lot of headache what kind of solution i should use for  Windows 7 compability i decided to use the libVLC as it supports a lot of more codecs then Media Foundation. (And Microsoft made it absolute complicated to find code for the right solution as they changed their API over the years a couple of times.)

This is a huge step on Windows as now you could use MPMP also for Windows 7, have better streaming support and on top of that you get a Youtube player!

The only drawback is that you don’t have the same performance like MF but for HD playback it is not a problem. Only for 4K you need a more decent GPU.