I remember Media Player Classic, back when it came as part of the K-Lite Codec Pack. It was the only way to watch anime circa 2004, with all of their wild codec

I remember Media Player Classic, back when it came as part of the K-Lite Codec Pack. It was the only way to watch anime circa 2004, with all of their wild codecs and subtitle files. It was incredibly useful, and if memory serves I believe I got better performance out of it than VLC on lower-end PC's. I eventually transitioned over to just VLC, however. The fact that I could just download it and play everything out-of-the-box without having to then download a bunch of codecs was very attractive. It had a portable version, too.