media players...

[the_shyguy]

hey... im just using windows media player 9 at the moment... what media players are other ppl using for watching movies?

also, when downloading movies of p2p, which is the better format to look for from a quality point of view and being able to turn into vcd? avi, mpg etc.?

shyguy

[neoufo51]

Absolute best media player for what files you speak of...

Media Player Classic.

I'm sure many will agree with me on this one.

[kiwibank]

i`m using bs player and mercury audio player...both very good for video and audio files...mercury audio player is fairly new...

http://www.mercuryaudio.net/

http://www.bsplayer.org/

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[The Hunter]

1337player is one that some people like, and you can read about it here.http://www.daansystems.com/1337player/
Its one that i discovered a while ago while doing some articles on betas.

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

I just use Winamp5

But most of the time I just use the media player in Ares. Even though thats not really a media player.

btw you can check out our very small, but kinda cool media player section http://www.zeropaid.com/php/filesharing.php?id=73

[matt merch]

hey... im
also, when downloading movies of p2p, which is the better format to look for from a quality point of view and being able to turn into vcd? avi, mpg etc.?

shyguy

i used to just d/l in svcd or vcd format so i dont have to convert and lose quality now i have a cheap yamada standalone dvd player that plays xvid divx avi etc

[begoodbebad]

For all downloaded video if you have BSPlayer and VideoLan(VLC) you will always be able to play it at its best. VideoLan is good for discs too.
For downloaded audio Foobar is good but if you want lots of colours/toys look elsewhere. Version 0.7 and newer are easy to use. Foobar can play compressed/archived files, that is rar and zip etc, which means if you download complete CDs in a zip/rar format you can listen without decompressing. This is excellent for releases that come as an ape and cue file, you dont even have to burn a CD, foobar treats the cue file like a playlist.

With these three media players installed you can play anything at highest quality, and you should be able to play even the most screwed up rips you find.

If you watch a lot of DVD on your PC then WinDVD Platinum 5 is probably as good as software players get, superb picture and sound, nice GUI and it's widely available *cough*.

Also for DivX the basic DivX player from DivX is excellent.

If you have these then chances are you'll never use WMP again.

VLC, BSPlayer and Foobar are all free. WinDVD is..er..widely available.

[Greylin]

VideoLan Media Player is the best I've come across.

[the_shyguy]

cool... cheers for the advice ppl..

with audio i use winamp... just cos im used to it :)

but i will give BSplayer and VLC a go for video...

i used to just d/l in svcd or vcd format so i dont have to convert and lose quality now i have a cheap yamada standalone dvd player that plays xvid divx avi etc

i use overnet and havent been able to find any files .vcd or .svcd??

i have TMPEG (cant remember what its called) and was going to convert to vcd... so what would be the best files to look for, for future converting? avi?

shyguy

[«°¤§téålth§t®îk餰»]

There isn't any popular format called .vcd or .svcd (once I saw a .divx encode of Haunted Mansion). Anyway, you need to look for .mpg, which is already a vcd,kvcd,svcd or ready to burn format.

If you want your own conversions then you can look for .avi and just convert that to VCD using the Doom9 tutorials.

Also, there are ready made images of VCD's and SVCD's so you can also look for those. Usually they are large separated archive files compacted using WinRAR.

Hope that helps

[the_shyguy]

There isn't any popular format called .vcd or .svcd (once I saw a .divx encode of Haunted Mansion). Anyway, you need to look for .mpg, which is already a vcd,kvcd,svcd or ready to burn format.

If you want your own conversions then you can look for .avi and just convert that to VCD using the Doom9 tutorials.

Also, there are ready made images of VCD's and SVCD's so you can also look for those. Usually they are large separated archive files compacted using WinRAR.

Hope that helps

what do you mean .mpg is already vcd etc.? so i can just burn the mpg to a cd and it will work on my home dvd? do you have to change the file to .vcd?

[rainbowdemon]

VideoLan Media Player is the best I've come across.

I agree. And for music, Foobar is the one!!