Author Topic: BEST MEDIA PLAYER OUT THERE (Read 3038 times)

Easy_MxMoney · « **on:** August 26, 2006, 05:22:35 am »

VLC Media player, free download @ www.videolan.org i have not yet found a media file this player cannot play, has all the codecs you need built in DiVX, XviD, etc. IT PLAYS EVERYTHING!!!

Sophosaurus · « **Reply #1 on:** November 14, 2006, 12:49:07 am »

Na, i can't believe this, really, you must be joking.
Please stop making your jokes on poor noobs, that's way too cruel.

Fun Guest · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2006, 05:20:04 am »

It's the best. Idk what I would have played all the .ogm files I have with out it.

Sophosaurus · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2006, 05:35:43 am »

Must be my karma or something like that, but...

First it didn't play some of the first video-clips i tested, second it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing on my system (nothinh else ever does), third it shows strange behavior whenever i change the skin.

Don't get me wrong, i like it, but it seems to be in alpha state and i doubt someone could implement as many codecs as i use to have on my system.

Did you try Media Player Classic? (if you run Windows)

Easy_MxMoney · « **Reply #4 on:** November 14, 2006, 06:10:29 am »

yes i run media player classic also at least for my mp3s and wmas, are you runnig windows? this is the best i have ever used, whats your system running on, i am using 2 GHz dual channel ddr 3.2 GHz p4 and win xp on a soyo motherboard, anyway maybe it was you messing with skins and other stuff try installing basic ver. and just using that, without tweaking it

p2p rules · « **Reply #5 on:** November 14, 2006, 06:50:21 am »

I use MPC to play video files , it doesn't have a fancy GUI but it plays just about any file type including DVD's if you've the right codecs pack.It comes bundled with Real or Quicktime Alternative , so I don't have install Real & Quicktime crappy players on my system just to play Real or Quicktime files.
I use Winamp for audio files.

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2006, 07:19:06 am »

Vlc does work very nicely on my Pc.
It's anyday, much better than Windows media Player....

Cheers

Cobra · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2006, 09:04:18 am »

Thank you for pointing me to VLC. It is lacking a few features which bugs me a tiny bit, but I gain so much more over Windows Media Player.

I never had a real problem with WMP until recently. I installed codecs that were requested due to videos not playing and still some new videos I downloaded as well as many I had no problems with before were jumping. I had to play those in a separate program to solve that problem which was irritating to do. VLC has no problems playing these files.

Also, because I am on a snail connection, I will watch pieces of a file while it is downloading. This is to be sure it is the one I want before I waste hours. Before with WMP, anything except for *.asf video files would not play normally because the file is in use when downloading. I had to copy the file and play the copied version and then delete it which was another irritation. So far, I have had no problems playing files while they download. This is a blessing!

So thank you again for mentioning the program.

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2006, 09:51:25 am »

Mabye a few features here and there (Which many freeware applicaitions can do anyways) won't be there.
But it's never bugged me since I've installed it. And it's free

Cheers