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+Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
+==================================
+
+Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is a free and open source audio
+and video player for Windows. MPC-HC is based on the original Guliverkli project
+and contains a lot of additional features and bug fixes.
+
+MPC-HC is passing through very hard times. We never had many developers and a couple weeks ago
+the main developer who was responsible of maintaining our internal filters code base decided
+to stop contributing to MPC-HC and to create a new fork of the project based on a different,
+more closed, style of development.
+
+Now we are in dire need of new developers of any kind. If you can code a little, or you can create
+logos for the player and images for the file associations, or you can create/maintain the main
+website, please join our IRC channel and talk to us. If you think your skills are lacking,
+let us be the judge; any help is always appreciated.
+Find some easy ticket on our trac page, fix the problem, post the patch on trac or come on IRC
+and we'll review it for you.
+
+We care about keeping an open project open and free for contributions wherever they may come from.
+
+
+Main Features:
+---------------
+* Option to remove tearing
+* Better support for Windows Vista/7, including a 64-bit build
+* Support for EVR/EVR CP (Enhanced Video Renderer)
+* Supports most types of subtitles including BD .sup files
+* Playback and recording of television, if a supported TV tuner is installed
+* OSD info (On Screen Display)
+* Multi-Monitor support
+* Various pixel shaders
+* Color management
+* 23 translations available
+
+
+System Requirements:
+---------------------
+* An SSE capable CPU
+* Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 32-bit/64-bit
+
+
+Links:
+-------
+* [Website]            (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net)
+* [Source code]        (https://github.com/mpc-hc)
+* [Support Trac]       (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc)
+* IRC Channel          #mpc-hc / #mpc-hc-dev at [Freenode] (http://webchat.freenode.net/)
+* [Help and Support]   (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/)
+* [Donations]          (http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=170561)
+
+
+For the people involved in the development, see [Authors.txt](https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc/blob/master/docs/Authors.txt).
+
+MPC-HC's code is licensed under GPL v3 (see [COPYING.txt](https://raw.github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc/master/COPYING.txt)).
+
+Translations are done by various translators (see [Authors.txt](https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc/blob/master/docs/Authors.txt)).
+
+Third-party code
+-----------------
+
+MPC-HC makes use of the following third-party code:
+
+<table>
+<tr><td align=left>Project</td><td>License</td><td>Website</td></tr>
+<tr><td>ATL Server</td> <td>Ms-LPL</td> <td>http://atlserver.codeplex.com/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Bento4</td> <td>GPLv2</td> <td>http://zebulon.bok.net/trac/Bento4</td></tr>
+<tr><td>CLineNumberEdit</td> <td>-</td> <td>http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6385/Controls-in-controls-A-line-numbering-edit-box</td></tr>
+<tr><td>CSizingControlBar</td> <td>GPLv2</td> <td>http://www.datamekanix.com/sizecbar/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Detours</td> <td>MSR-SSLA</td> <td>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>FFmpeg</td> <td>GPLv2</td> <td>http://www.ffmpeg.org/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>libflac</td> <td>GPLv2 / New BSD License</td> <td>http://flac.sourceforge.net/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>libmpeg2</td> <td>GPLv2</td> <td>http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>libogg</td> <td>New BSD License</td> <td>http://www.xiph.org/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Little CMS</td> <td>MIT License</td> <td>http://www.littlecms.com/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Logitech SDK</td> <td>-</td> <td>-</td></tr>
+<tr><td>MediaInfoLib</td> <td>LGPLv3</td> <td>http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>MultiMon</td> <td>CPOL</td> <td>http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI/multimon.aspx</td></tr>
+<tr><td>QuickTime SDK</td> <td>-</td> <td>http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/download/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>RealMedia SDK</td> <td>-</td> <td>-</td></tr>
+<tr><td>ResizableLib</td> <td>Artistic License</td> <td>http://sourceforge.net/projects/resizablelib/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>SoundTouch</td> <td>LGPLv2.1</td> <td>http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>TreePropSheet</td> <td>-</td> <td>http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3709/CTreePropSheet-A-Netscape-Visual-Studio-NET-like-P</td></tr>
+<tr><td>UnRAR</td> <td>freeware</td> <td>http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
+<tr><td>VirtualDub</td> <td>GPLv2</td> <td>http://www.virtualdub.org/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>ZenLib</td> <td>Simplified BSD License</td> <td>http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenlib/</td></tr>
+<tr><td>zlib</td> <td>zlib License</td> <td>http://zlib.net/</td></tr></table>