It plays video files and audio files, and it is open-source, which means you can play around with the programming and alter it to your liking. MPC HC is a very lightweight media player that works for Windows computers. I even installed dotnet's till 3.5 sp1, and let the windows update to get the kb's for dotnet, so i'd say it's a quite up to date sp2.Ĭan i help somehow to test this issue? Any test/demo app i can run just instruct me what to do.Mireia Fernandez Cristia Updated 8 months ago A free Windows media player that is open source

My notebook is equipped with X3100 vga, T9300 cpu, on an up to date Windows XP SP2. I even launched up splinter cell 1 game in windowed mode, but no flickers. I'm tested flash video playback on youtube, even flash games with 3d renderers (these are hardware accelerated) but i didn't noticed any flicker, so it's hard to tell what really causing this issue. As a quick addition i tested dxdiag and it also went fine without any flicker. As far as i can tell, the Overlay renderer is uses DirectDraw to display the content, but i can't tell how it really does.

So all in all, it looks like that Rainmeter might have difficulties with the rendering methods. I can change the rendering methods in mpc hc, to VMR/EVR etc but the only setting the video looks fine is Haali renderer that is ok, but it causes quite high cpu usage that means haali is not an option, but overlay is the only one.

I'm using this setting a long while (for years) and not any problem ever happened but it seems like Rainmeter just won't fit, it just starts flickering when i open a video and start playback, and then it flickers also when i interact with the mpc gui, even if i move the mpc window through the screen. Yesterday i picked up the first installation of rainmeter ever on my notebook, and so far so good everything works great, but then i experienced some strange results with video playback using media player classic (MPC-HC 1.5.3.x) with Overlay rendering settings.

Mpc hc video player