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| rocknroll |
 Posted: Feb 05, 2007 6:45 pm |
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上塩タン焼680円
Joined: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 297
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| What's the best free, and easy to use video player out there that will play most any videos I've downloaded? I have been using an older BSPlayer (before they put add into it) and it's starting to not be able to play some videos I've got recently so any help would be very welcomed. |
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| mangomalte |
| Posted: Feb 07, 2007 12:13 pm |
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クラゲ, 流れ星
Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 3582
Location: Sweden
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i use VLC player for all my videos. it's free and good and all that. not the best looking layout, but who cares about that, it can play almost all vids i try. 
http://www.videolan.org/ |
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| caffeinated |
| Posted: Feb 07, 2007 4:55 pm |
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クムリウタ
Joined: 07 Feb 2006
Posts: 362
Location: Vancouver, CA.
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I second VLC.  It plays everything and it is open-source. <3
If you somehow don't like VLC, Media Player Classic is a really great one as well. |
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| Jester |
| Posted: Feb 07, 2007 5:16 pm |
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フレンジャー
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Posts: 843
Location: Canada
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| I third the motion. It's really hard to find thing that VLC doesn't play. I've been using it for awhile and I still haven't found anything that doesn't work with it. I mean come on, it's totally free! |
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| Lesca |
| Posted: Feb 08, 2007 9:57 am |
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Happy Days
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 102
Location: Malaysia
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VLC is love . Definitely go with it. But I shall say, it is quite ugly  . Oh well, hopefully someone will develop it and make it prettier |
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| caffeinated |
| Posted: Feb 08, 2007 11:11 am |
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クムリウタ
Joined: 07 Feb 2006
Posts: 362
Location: Vancouver, CA.
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^ There are tons of VLC skins you can download and install.  You can even make your own if you know how. The default interface is built to be light-weight I guess so it's not that attractive. |
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| rocknroll |
| Posted: Feb 11, 2007 9:18 pm |
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上塩タン焼680円
Joined: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 297
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| VLC is looking like it's going to work out great. Its's already played some of the ones I was having a hard time with. Thanks so much! |
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| mrc |
| Posted: Feb 12, 2007 6:11 am |
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金魚花火
Joined: 28 Jul 2005
Posts: 157
Location: Right about here - http://tinyurl.com/gjpyn
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For what it's worth I can also recommend VLC, it even does a good job of de-interlacing mpeg files like VOBs etc.
I actually use XP Media Center for most of my viewing (and listening), with the 'Combined Community Codec Pack' installed it plays absolutely everything on both the laptop screen and when connected to HDTV. This is a little strange as not all files will play on WMP, even though Media Center uses it as it's player 
I mainly use VLC when nosing through folders, which XPMC isn't really designed for.
You won't be dissapointed with VLC (although I imagine you probably have it by now!  ) |
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| Sauronu |
| Posted: Feb 27, 2007 5:44 pm |
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さくらんぼ
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Posts: 48
Location: Bulgaria
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| Well I use VLC player too, and it works fine, except for some ogm files, The player gives 'Don't send' type of error and I don't know what is the problem, but when the VLC fails to play the video file, I use ZoomPlayer, which comes wtih the CCCP codec pack |
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