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Looking for the best media player?

I'm looking for an alternative to Windows Media Player, it's layout is to boring, and yes I know you can get skins but I still don't like it. So does anybody know of another or use another that is good?

Update:

@RJ Goodhouse

Couldn't have just said the name... That took a while to read...

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  • 10 years ago
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    Hello, VLC media player i think is the best alternative for windows media player, its freeware, download it from the link given below

    http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/download/0c2...

  • 10 years ago

    I use VLC but find that it's not as stable as it used to be. I can open more files without problems in EM Total Video Player. I recently downloaded the KM Player and was amazed at the superb quality! I will be using it more. Of course for DivX, it's probably still best to download the DivX Player.

    http://total-video-player.en.softonic.com/ (KM PLayer is also here).

  • 10 years ago

    VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    Simple, Powerful and Fast

    Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD), Devices and Streams

    Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed

    Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking

    Best Mpeg2, x264, DivX player

    Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix...

    Media Converter and Streamer

    "It plays everything!"

    The media player that fulfills all your needs. It handles DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

    With VLC, there is no need to continually update many different codec packs. VLC comes with nearly every codec built in!

    And whats more, VLC can play back your files, even if the media is damaged! Missing or broken pieces wont stop VLC. All the video and audio information that remains can be played.

    1. DVD decryption is done through the libdvdcss library.

    2. VLC on GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows has playback control support via libcdio and libvcdinfo. On other platforms, SVCD support varies depending on the availability of these libraries. (Volunteers for adding support are always welcome.). Handling still frames (often used in menus) and switching between different video formats is problematic.

    3. On Mac OS X 10.4 or later, VLC is able to grab video and audio from EyeTV applications and therefore all EyeTV-compatible capture devices. The user needs to install a plugin to EyeTV.app in order to use this feature. Guidance is provided in the User Interface. Requires VLC 0.9.0 or later.

    4. VLC for GNU/Linux supports V4L2 compatible encoding cards as well as two kinds of MPEG-2 encoding cards: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250/350 and Visiontech Kfir.

    5. VLC can capture video from internal iSights on Mac OS X 10.5 or later (video only) since version 0.9.0. VLC 1.2 adds enables capturing from all devices supported by QTKit.

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    http://sourceforge.net/

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    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    u can try living house windows media participant or realplayer... yet they cant play all the format .. u can acquire VLC participant or u can hit upon a participant which could play all the format in the internet to remedy ur subject... i think of VLC participant can remedy ur subject......its outstanding to me

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    vlc media player, km media player.

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