Best media player around

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Definitely Media Player Classic: ridiculously low CPU usage, basic and clean GUI, hardly any crashes (less than the others listed in my experience - yes, I have tried every player out there, and then some...).
I also use it instead of RealPlayer and Quicktime thanks to the appropriate plugins (namely Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative).
I use VLC to check partially downloaded files.
Off topic, Foobar is the best for audio files (ace, flac, mp3...).

I wonder: have those who voted for Windows Media Player actually tried any of the other players? 'cos WMP really is the worst of them all: extremely heavy CPU usage, 80% of useless garbage when all you want to do is watch a vid, poor video quality (hmm, that awesome "thin mosaic" special effect on files encoded with some of the rarer codecs, wonder how they do that), terrible codec management (I love it when it tries to DL "missing" codecs that are actually already installed, fails to DL them, then plays the file anyway... brilliant, innit?)

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

VLC RULES!! Tongue

For Years have been using this player mainly because it DOES NOT NEED EXTERNAL CODECS to play any file w00t

And suports almost everything, angelpoison, matroska, whatever... w00t

And has a fine subtitles manager w00t

And the image quality is better than other good ones like BSPlayer or MPclassic. w00t

And is higly customizable if you want to bother w00t

And has versions for many OS: Linux, MacOS, BeOS, even Windows... w00t

and last but not least it's OPEN SOURCE FREEWARE w00t

get it now! w00t

free trial! w00t

free software! and if not happy your money back Laugh

just kiddin'... no money back Big Smile

if you don't know where: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I use Vlc player, Media player Classic, and BSplayer.

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

im using VLC .
its helped me through numerous situtations

- no codecs needed, plays any file
- like lagless, im serious
- easy to use, user-friendly
- subs manager very easy to use also.
- WATCH paritally dl-ed files (helps alot)
- F-R-E-E, I repeat its F-R-E-E !

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I used to be strictly BSPlayer. I liked everything about it. However, recently mine crapped out. I went to reinstall it and found that to use the free version, it's now ad-supported and asked me to install some adware. I canceled the install. I decided to explore my options before dedicating to buying BSPlayer Pro.

I have found something that I like better and have heard good reviews about.....Zoom Player. I really really like it. It's simple and to the point. I find the menus and everything to be very specific and helpful, especially with codec support. It friggin' tells me what codecs are installed. I probably will barely use GSpot now Laugh

I didn't check specifically, but I didn't find it to be a resource hog on my system. So, for now, I decided not to buy BSPlayer Pro.

As for Media Player Classic, I do use it on occasion. However, I don't like it to be my primary player. I find the seeking to be slow. I tend to skip around a lot so I need the seeking to be quick and accurate.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

urm im sorry if i'm in the wrong section sweating

but since you guys are talking about bs player which i am using now. can i ask a lil bit tiny question?

when i choose the desktop mode, the subtitle didn't show up. i'm using the free bs player which i dl along with klite mega codec pack. so does anyone know what i can do so the subtitle will show if i choose desktop mode

again i'm really sorry,i just didn't want to open a thread for one simple question.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

BSPlayer with ffdshow owns...i also like using vlc but i hate how the subs look :/

Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Have been with BSPlayerfor years now and its still the best for me.

Second has to be VLC.

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:40 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It's been years since I started using Media Player Classic from my very first K-drama till now. Smile

It's been great all along & what else could I say except, "MPC rockS!!!" cheers

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well,from time to time there were some files that I couldn't play with VLC. So I tried other players. But they are all gone: if VLC does not play it, no one else does.

Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've been using Media Player Classic for a long time to play all my videos. It works very well. The "codec pack" I use is CCCP (used to use the Matroska Pack but lately it started to doink a lot so I got CCCP instead). However I don't use the older version of MPC that CCCP has bundled, but the newer version. It still works though.

Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've been using Media Player Classic. It's a genuine media player for me because it says Classic xD

The thing is with MPC is that I neve really had to open any sub files and things like that.. it just knows what I'm thinking and then it pops out. Though sometimes it crashes once or twice but I guess that's never really a problem..

Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I use Creative Media Player that came bundled with my X-fi. I like it, plus it has feature like slowing down music without pitch changes (useful for learning guitar licks).

And the X-fi rocks Mr. Green