as the question suggets
I'm looking for the best media player
I'd like
low cpu usage
good quality (will it be the same for all or do they use different decoding codecs?)
easy to make playlist withh
any suggestions?
as the question suggets
I'm looking for the best media player
I'd like
low cpu usage
good quality (will it be the same for all or do they use different decoding codecs?)
easy to make playlist withh
any suggestions?
Been using media player classic for a long time now. Has to be one of the best players if not the best. No install needed...only one exe file!
If you have difficulties viewing a file it may be that the codec is not installed.
It certainly does not hog the cpu usage, quality is good...I'm not too sure about creating playlists.
How about Foobar?
That's just for audio tho
these two may or may not be the same across most players, depending on a number of things
as standard, in windows, codecs are implemented as "directshow filters" - dll files which most media players can and do use. quicktime and realplayer use their own non-directshow formats. the windowsy exception is programs with a linuxy background - i.e. vlc and media player classic. for the former, there is zero external codec support - everything is built in when the program is compiled. for the latter, a number of codecs are built in, but there's directshow support too.
one thing that MIGHT vary your experience, should you decide to stick with something like windows media player, is which codec you use for a given FOURCC - for example, you can use the official divx codec for divx files, but also xvid, ffdshow, 3ivx, or others i've forgotten.
generally speaking, some codecs are unavoidably high-cpu or low quality, and a change of player will make little difference
Winamp is good!
/me laughs at g8ina. Quite hard.
I feel dirty, but I've just started using iTunes. It's quite good to be honest. It hurts me to say that.
Prior to that, Winamp for albums, WMP for individual tunes and videos. FFDShow, Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative. Yet to fail me.
i put in a vote for winamp althought itunes is good for arranging your music
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o yeah for video i use winamp cos i have loads of codecs or i use vlc if winamp cant play it
EVE - Online ( TiMeZeRo225, Proper Emo, Facter )
World of Warcraft:
Eu:The Shattar ( TiMeZeRo )
Eu:Shattered halls (Pakapunch, Sigari, Eitu)
CS:S - TiMeZeRo
Audio - Foobar2000 (no contest)
Video - VLC or MPC.
I just use WMP. I don't see why everyone bitches about it. Winamp sucks, iTunes takes about three weeks to open after clicking the icon (although that's still three weeks faster than the ironically named QuickTime), and every other one I've tried needs a vast number of codecs before it'll do anything. And don't get me started on RealPlayer!
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