Best media player around

Well well well...

ok you downloaded the movie, ready to play it.. what are you going to use to play it?
Tough uh?
what is your favourite media player and why? Tongue

Personnally my choice is VLC (videolan) http://www.videolan.org/
- fast and reliable...
- need less ressources than windows media player
- Can play most media files include streaming / DVD / VCD / CD / etc
- can read partially downloaded file without damaging it.
- read subtitles without a separate codec
- jump bad frames without stopping the movie
- free
thumright

Next is Zoom player
http://www.inmatrix.com/
Visit website for details

There is a codec pack available on internet (kazAa lite codec pack)
very complete in case you have problems with some codecs
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

mplayer for Linux. It plays anything.

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

can't stand Windows media player or winamp when playing my dramas. I normally go with my trusty media player classic. Ever since I first installed it, I haven't had a single problem playing any files, and it's light so it doesn't hog up tons of resources on my comp. Smile

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

RadLight 4 - http://www.radlight.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=655

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

what a crappy poll.... as though those are the best four players were the best or something.... you don't even list bsplayer (which is the best, btw...) Tongue

*edit*

i don't feel any particular need to flame anyone for using linux, but as much as i hate windows, i have a job (i.e. i need to ration out my free time now, as opposed to when i was in school.....) and all and i need my computer to work with mimimum effort and actually have it run useful programs Roll Eyes

which doesn't happen much with linux without a windows emulator or something.... not much money for serious developers to invest in an opensource community Tongue

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I use BSPlayer 90% of the time, the controls are simple and varied enough though maybe not as exhaustive as Vlan. Roll Eyes

I still haven't found my dream player though, one that would have an option to skip frame when the CPU load is too high for full decoding. If you know any that lets you do that please tell me before I upgrade to a 3Ghz system! Suprise

as for playing Real Media files without the real player, you can always download a filter called Real Alternative.

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I prefer Media Player Classic by gabest when watching videos. I use Winamp (old version 2.x) only for mp3s.
rambo

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I would suggest replacing Windows Media Player with MPC in your poll. I mean, is anyone really going to vote for Mr. Gate's program anyway? I can't compare MPC to recent versions of zoomplayer or radlight because I only have older versions, but MPC never seems to give me any problems. I like it. Isn't the author of radlight considered evil for some of his spyware/malware tactics in the past?

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:06 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I use BSPlayer. Simplest and lowest overhead. You can upgrade the skins if you don't like the default.

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

But still i hope that someone could come up with an idea of a software player which could play rm,asf,wmv too then that would be the best player as all extension are playable right Tongue

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i use BSPlayer too.

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Wish i could upload those player in the list sadly, it is not possible anymore.. Tongue

Bsplayer (media player classic), Mplayer
Sorry to people for not having listed them Roll Eyes

it's interesting to see how many media player are out there,
is there any which plays rm (real media files too)?

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i think real player files are copyrighted by them......I havent seen any player that plays rm files other than the media players from REAL.

I personally like VLC, im using VLC on linux, though i came across a problem with it playing 3ivx file (cant get sound to work), but it worked under windows. Anyways, thumbs up for VLC, oh mplayer for linux is good too.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:07 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0