Best video player?

[Andromedon]

I'm looking for a video player (besides windows media player) that runs on lower resources and plays anything.

[DigitalJunkie]

VLC Player

http://www.videolan.org/

[rebirth]

BS Player or VLC. ^

BUT, again. Asking for opinions gets you about no where. Sample them for yourself, and determine whether or not that VidPlayer fits yours needs. DO IT ON YOUR OWN. Cut the proverbial umbilical cord, and jump into life.

[Mels_Smileys45]

VLC player DOES NOT use less resouces! Its a hog. Windows Media player classic is bare bones but you said other. Don't know what would use less than classic.

[homie_da_clownx]

BS player dont apply the shit you dont use, VLC may act better with less shit too,

[simon_says_horrible]

VLC player does hog resources (same as Winamp). I think Radlight 4 BETA 1 (NT/2000/XP only) is much better with less memory and CPU usage http://www.radlight.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=852

[Betamax]

Also consider Zoom Player; it has some unique features.

[SanDiegoKid]

2nd that ZoomPlayer... and BS player is nice, with some attractive skins as well.

[Stownplayer]

ace divx player. I replaced widows media player with this and it's really great.

[eivioolla]

I like VLC so that I don't have to mess up my system with installing codecs.

[MushroomheadXIII]

The new vlc doesn't hog like a bitch, the old one did. For opening videos and music, windows media is fastest. Alternative works too!

[Andromedon]

I have another question, this time concerning windows media player classsic....I can't get my video files to stay in the playlist, I've got to load them each and every time...do you all know how to get them to load and stay there?

[black_magiic]

for video right now I stand by WMP10, it seems to be all the rest. Especially in load time

[Vampmon]

RealPlayer 10.5 plays ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, but it does take up a lot of system resorces.

You can get it from Download.com if you want.

[infringer]

If watching a movie things that might deture that movie from playing or make it choppy are enevitable for some tasks.

If you are encoding a movie while watching a movie your video may not play or play choppy same goes for burning a CD or DVD, even downloading a fat list of files from your favorite filesharing network.

For many applications there is no way around choppy video while preforming certain tasks... but there are some things you could try:

A good video card such as a new ATI who specializes in cutting down video processor strain.
A lot of ram installed on your PC is always a plus.
Cut back on the number of files you download at a time or decrease the bandwidth.
Purchase a newer processor with better hyperthreading capabilities always a plus to have when multitasking.
Finally you can change the priority of the program running in the backround setting it to a lower setting to allow for your video to play more smoothly.

As far as video players go windows media player & classic are in fact the best that I have tried and if you dont wish to install a bunch of codecs in fear that they will mess up your system so to speak...

Then download just one codec called FFDIRECTSHOW as it will handle all the popular formats to playback your video smoothly and error free and is simple to uninstall. Unfortunately once you move on to the real fun and your mind starts on a little quest for knowladge you will find that codecs are not something ment to mess up your system but rather to expand on the capeabilities of what your system is able to do.

-infringer-

[infringer]

Also note as an alternative:

If you have ever wanted to play back a movie while doing something there is another alternative for only 69.99 you can purchase a BRAND NEW divx/xvid/mpeg/mpeg2/DVD-+R/vcd/svcd/pictureCD/MP3 basically a windows media player set top DVD player from walmart directly or www.walmart.com it plays nearly every video standard that windows media will and the playback is extrodinary. A true need for any movie buff.

[homie_da_clownx]

whats the name of it, or the direct link? nm its the phillips right? $66.54..

[Brycen257]

I use BS player like many other members and its great. It plays everything and give you far more options than Windows Media or other video players such as video aspect . :gj

[Undying Wizard NHD]

Zoom Player is under-rated yet the best , if the apsect ration is wrong zoom-player can fix it

http://inmatrix.com/



ohh and its free

[dushyant87]

I think Media Player Classic would be a good choice. Just search for it on the net, its free. Good alternative to WMP.

[axeman61]

I know that this is off topic, but I didn't want to make another topic about it. Is there a media player out there that does what shareaza does with it's partial downloads? As in compiles the readable data into video and plays that. I always wanted something like that for my other p2p applications. When I play partly downloaded stuff in VLC player, there can sometimes be skips and the like.

[Mels_Smileys45]

If your viewing BT files with VLC there will be skips because of the way BT downloads random chunks of the file.

[nukehella]

Finally you can change the priority of the program running in the backround setting it to a lower setting to allow for your video to play more smoothly.


-infringer-

Where else can you get this little pearls of wisdom but ZP?I've been wondering about those prority settings for awhile.

[lordfoul]

VLC. Codecs can confilict with one another and quite frankly finding (http://codeccorner.com/aj.html) you must update to the latest codec to get good results is a pain in the ass. It's nice to have a "silver bullet" for 99% of your video.

(VLC has about a 30-35M memory footprint)