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I’ve been a user of Media Player Classic since I remember. I don’t like the default Windows Media Player and any other alternatives didn’t interest me since all I needed was provided by MPC.

However, the latest version of MPC is such a piece of shit, it was almost unusable! Constant crashes, missing DLLs and stuff like that made me to take a closer look at VLC, which I’ve seen being used much often than MPC. I was pleased they provided an install-free version, so I downloaded the ZIP archive, extracted, tried out and after setting up some keyboard shortcuts etc… I must say, I am impressed!

The stability, speed and user friendliness won me over.

So long, MPC, it’s been pleasure using you, however, the competition has clearly an edge in all areas.

I just upgraded my Repository server as well as all the Render Slave machines to the latest Deadline 4.1 build and I must say, the performance seems better (over a WAN VPN) and some tiny bugs presented in the older version seem to be ironed out.

The installation couldn’t have been easier. Since it was a point update, I just installed over the Repository and the Clients, all seems to be working perfectly.

Great job, Prime Focus Deadline team!