Media Player Alpha! is a media player that plays on the desktop, thus requires Active Desktop to be enabled. Due to the utilization of DirectX, MPA has great visual quality and speed unprecedented in any media player to date. Also offering a playlist to watch multiple movies, ability to load/save playlists to files. It can also open most image files.
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Download: Media Player Alpha! 0.3.16
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system