mpc-qt VS NanaZip

In Windows you can use MPC-QT or SMPlayer for example.

Also took a look at mpc-qt, https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt/releases. It's missing a ton of the features the newer maintained MPC-HC has gained over the years since the original went stale. But by God, the detail in its picture is outstanding.

Playing videos -> https://mpc-qt.github.io

Could try mpc-qt

Have you heard about or tried mpc-qt? As the name might imply, it's inspired by Media Player Classic (specifically MPC-HC), so it probably fits in better than a player that uses custom skins

I just use mpc-qt, basically the best of both worlds. Sadly its not actively developed but the program itself works just fine

I've been trying to compile mpc-qt (https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt) on Windows 10 and just can't seem to get it to work. I've found portable releases of it, but can't seem to get Windows to associate it with media files. Anyone have success with it?

If you have Windows 10 or above, you should instead use NanaZip instead of 7-Zip-zstd. It is a massively improved fork of 7-Zip.

The first part of modernizing is port everything to XAML, adding dark mode and others. It's expected to be during this year, new UI in 2024. It's in their roadmap in GitHub

https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

imo better integration with Win 10/11 context menus and more compression codecs

These days NanaZip is considered to be better, it's a fork of 7Zip.

Programs like NanaZip (a 7zip fork) that do implement the new API are right there on the right-click menu where you'd want them to be.