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"Best" media player for Windows?

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Never found a reason to use anything other than Media Player Classic. It's awesome. Super light weight, snappy, plays everything and works beautifully on pretty much any system.

Codec packs are still around. Look up the Windows 7 Codec Pack.

Here's what I do:

- Install Quicktime Alternative
- Install Real Alternative
- Install Media Player Classic
- Install Windows 7 Codec Pack
- Profit?

I've never been unable to play any file type so far, and I HATE being required to install Quicktime or Real players if I ever run across such a format - so the above solves that problem.

I checked out this "Foobar", what's so good about it? I haven't found a reason to stop using Winamp yet. lol
 
zCypher said:
I checked out this "Foobar", what's so good about it? I haven't found a reason to stop using Winamp yet. lol
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It's highly customizable, and highly extensible. It sounds great, and has a clean interface. Importantly to me, it easily organizes by folder. I organize my music solely by file name/folder, and Foobar2000 accommodates that, and doesn't dick up my system.
 
lxskllr said:
It's highly customizable, and highly extensible. It sounds great, and has a clean interface. Importantly to me, it easily organizes by folder. I organize my music solely by file name/folder, and Foobar2000 accommodates that, and doesn't dick up my system.
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Can you just hit the letter "V" on your keyboard to stop whatever's playing when the Foobar window has focus? Can you just press "J" and start typing a search into your playlist?
 
zCypher said:
Can you just hit the letter "V" on your keyboard to stop whatever's playing when the Foobar window has focus? Can you just press "J" and start typing a search into your playlist?
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Yea, you can set them, as well as almost any other actions to the keys of your choosing.
 
I must be the only person still using Winamp for music. Had to upgrade to 5.5 when I went to Windows 7, but it's pretty much the same as 2.7 was.
 
PotPlayer has much better video quality than VLC Media Player and when you move through different portions of xVid or MP4 videos, there is no delay, you can navigate to any part of the movie instantly whereas in VLC sometimes (depending on the video encoding), it can take 1 - 2 seconds till you actually navigate to the other part of the film (seek bar)

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Am I the only one who uses Splash Pro Ex? It plays my most watched format, .mkv's beautifully.
 
lxskllr said:
Yea, you can set them, as well as almost any other actions to the keys of your choosing.
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Yep, although I prefer to set global hot keys so they work even when foobar2k doesn't have focus (in game, etc). Ctrl+alt+left/right for prev/next, and ctrl+alt+up/down for pause and stop. Good idea to set a key for search too.

Moved from Winamp years ago, foobar is so much quicker, cleaner and functional than anything.
 
I have 4 players

VLC (Excellent)
REALPLAYER (Version 8 (LAST GOOD VERSION)) - Very good
WMP9 - Best of the WMP series (Very good)
SCREAMER-RADIO - SUPERB!!!!!


I would say SCREAMER-RADIO is probably THE BEST player i have ever had!


With VLC in #2 spot!
 
Dude111 said:
I have 4 players

VLC (Excellent)
REALPLAYER (Version 8 (LAST GOOD VERSION)) - Very good
WMP9 - Best of the WMP series (Very good)
SCREAMER-RADIO - SUPERB!!!!!


I would say SCREAMER-RADIO is probably THE BEST player i have ever had!


With VLC in #2 spot!
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Wow how smart! you have VLC + WMP + REALPlayer when VLC is all you need and will play any file out of the box (even the REAL Player files) 🙄🙄🙄🙄
 
joejoe666 said:
i used VLC for a long time. Now i Use PotPlayer by Daum. techsupportalert suggested it. I don't really see the difference between the 2 so i kept Potplayer.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows-media-player-replacement.htm
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You don't see the difference between the 2? I did today yet again.

I decided to install VLC 2.0 to see what it's all about and maybe they have improved the performance but again...I was watching a pr0n movie, and you know in pr0n you tend to like to move between diff. sections of the movie quickly....everytime I chose a diff. part of the movie via the seekbar...the movie would pause for 3 seconds then resume from the new part....

but in PotPlayer, the movie plays smoother, at higher quality, and moves between various sections smooth as silk.

This offcourse doesn't happen with all kinds of movies or Pr0n, it depends on the encoding, but still, if PotPlayer does it properly, and actually has a better interface than VLC with nice built in skins, then PotPlayer it is!
 
jpiniero said:
I must be the only person still using Winamp for music. Had to upgrade to 5.5 when I went to Windows 7, but it's pretty much the same as 2.7 was.
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you are not. its all ill most likely ever use, yet to see a reason to stop using it, i used in when v3 came out and everyone hated it as well, its skinability and small visual footprint simply work amazingly well

i use VLC for vids but im giving potplayer a go now to see how i like it
 
Matrix Leader said:
Yeah try moving between different parts of a movie and see how laggy MPC is! Time to ditch that ancient player 🙄
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Don't watch "pr0n" so I don't need to be able to rewatch the "good" bits over and over. If I turn on a movie I'll watch it start to finish. I hadn't heard of potplayer until I ran across this thread...I'll have to check it out. I'm by no means an "MPC-HC" evangelist...it's just what I use because it works for what I need, and I love that it can play everything I throw at it, and as someone else said, with better quality than VLC.
 
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