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Title: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Libertarianssuck on July 14, 2009, 12:49:49 AM
Whats your favorite and why? I used to use vlc for the longest time but I started getting all sorts of errors. Reinstalled completely a couple of times then gave up and moved onto media player classic. If you wanna suggest one that would be cool.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith) on July 14, 2009, 12:55:23 AM
How about Windows Media Player 11?  I use Media Player Classic for quicktime because I really hate quicktime, and VLC for assorted other items.  But I prefer WMP 11 over every other player I've tried because it's actually effective at making and maintaining libraries.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Libertarianssuck on July 14, 2009, 01:00:41 AM
Yea i dunno back when windows media player was just starting i didnt really care for it. So i havent bother trying it recently. Added as well as quicktime. What does everyone think?
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: BobRobertson on July 14, 2009, 11:26:59 AM
XINE 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xine

http://www.xine-project.org/home

"xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available – and some of the most uncommon formats, too."
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: EternityAblaze on July 14, 2009, 12:03:57 PM
KMPlayer seems to handle all types of files, more than any other player I have used.  The only other player that comes close is the VLC.  The only reason I didn't vote for the VLC is the KMPlayer is not only prettier, but a lot more of KMPlayers default settings are closer to what I am looking for. (one who has a dual display with a big screen tv)

If you are one who makes frequent use of non-main stream video files such as ".MKV and .OGM", one of these two players are ideal for you.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: rabidfurby on July 14, 2009, 08:52:14 PM
VLC has always annoyed me for some undefinable reason. SMPlayer (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/) is the best MPlayer front-end I've found, and it works identically on both Windows & Linux, which is important to me.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Harry Tuttle on July 14, 2009, 09:13:40 PM
I use WMP11 for most thing day to day. It works fine, handles libraries and I don't have to mess with it. I use media player classic to play dvds.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Zat on July 14, 2009, 10:27:58 PM
VLC has always annoyed me for some undefinable reason. SMPlayer (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/) is the best MPlayer front-end I've found, and it works identically on both Windows & Linux, which is important to me.

I'm with you on VLC. It just doesn't feel 'right' but I can't really define where it's 'wrong'.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith) on July 14, 2009, 11:24:41 PM
KMPlayer seems to handle all types of files, more than any other player I have used.  The only other player that comes close is the VLC.  The only reason I didn't vote for the VLC is the KMPlayer is not only prettier, but a lot more of KMPlayers default settings are closer to what I am looking for. (one who has a dual display with a big screen tv)

If you are one who makes frequent use of non-main stream video files such as ".MKV and .OGM", one of these two players are ideal for you.

I use WMP11 for mkv and ogm files.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Alex Libman 14 on July 15, 2009, 11:22:59 AM
I go back and forth between VLC and Media Player Classic on Windows.

Been trying to expand my blind faith in Microsoft lately, but I'm easing into it...  ;)
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: Kevin Freeheart on July 15, 2009, 05:15:53 PM
I use VLC on Windows. I prefer Totem on Linux.

I'm in KDE land right now though, and Dragon Player works too. I just wanna play my damn videos, and pause when I need to piss. I don't need any other features.
Title: Re: Best/favorite video player
Post by: fatcat on July 15, 2009, 05:17:08 PM
Gom for interface, VLC when gom doesnt work