Best avi/mpg player?

[JEDI]

WinXP, AMD x2 6000 cpu w/3gig ram.

I'm using Media Player Classic.
It worked fine for years till i decided to replace my Geforce PCIE video card with a Radeon.

I have triple 1920x1080 monitors, thus i also have a pci geforce 6200LE.

The problem is that when i drag the video from one screen to another, my computer sometimes temporarily locks up. By that i mean one of the cores of my AMD X2 6000 cpu shoot up to 100% usage. (The other core is a 0%. WTF?)

it takes like 10min for the computer to resolve the 100% cpu utilization.

So whats a good alternative to Media Player Classic?

 

[Arch Enemy]

Personally I've used VLC for years, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I've never had any problems with it, and it has played pretty much everything I've thrown at it!

 

[lxskllr]

VLC for me.

 

[PowerRanger]

VLC here too.

 

[rimgazel]

VLC is simple and powerfull portableaps.blogspot.com

 

[Auric]

Are you using the current releases of MPC-HC and both graphics drivers, and VMR-7 Windowed? If so try asking in the doom9 forum.

Also, rather than moving the window around, perhaps the Fullscreen option would useful and avoid the problem (i.e. configure to output on specific target display)?

 

[crucibelle]

*Also use VLC.

 

[smitbret]

VLC here, too.

 

[JEDI]

Are you using the current releases of MPC-HC and both graphics drivers, and VMR-7 Windowed? If so try asking in the doom9 forum.

Also, rather than moving the window around, perhaps the Fullscreen option would useful and avoid the problem (i.e. configure to output on specific target display)?

was using vmr-9 renderless since i like the option of subtitles.
switched to wmr-9 windowed

 

[Auric]

VMR-9 Renderless is for subtitles while maintaining DXVA. Otherwise, VMR-7 Windowed is preferred. I've not seen any reason to use VMR-9 Windowed.

 

[Nizology]

VLC of course...as others have mentioned. Lightweight, customizable and plays anything.

 

[pcslookout]

I like KMplayer but I use more than one. Do use VLC player as well of course mainly for the GPU acceleration. Hate having to use more than one because I wish one had everything but never really seen that happen. Close but not quite. Oh well. It does suck though in some ways.

 

[Snapster]

VLC plays pretty much anything, the only video's it hasn't windows media player coped with.

 

[Pretty Cool]

You sure another media player would even make much of a difference? I have most of the popular video-playing software on my computer, and Media Player Classic's cpu utilization is not that much different compared to the others. Lots of programs play everything so I never even bother with VLC and its horrible UI. Anyway, the bottleneck might be your video card especially if you are actually using a slow PCI (not PCI-E) card.

 

[khansolo]

Have you tried MPC-HC? The original mpc player hasn't been worked on much for some time now, the latest release had small updates. MPC-HC has had a more thorough update, the latest being early this month.

 

[Modelworks]

MPC-HC should play anything you have. VLC is good too. If you want more options then get MPC-HC.
The last update was 9/7/2010 and has both 32 and 64 bit versions available. It was a large update with a ton of new things.
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/download-media-player-classic-hc.html

 

[boran]

I was tired of the codec hassles. VLC has none of that so that is what I am using.

 

[AkumaX]

MPC-HC (well, K-Lite Mega Codec which has it included + all codecs I ever needed)

 

[zokudu]

K-Lite Full Codec Package + MPC-HC try HC a shot as was said MPC is a bit outdated recently.

 

[KeypoX]

I like vlc, and kmplayer.

Codec packages are the worst!

 

[wirednuts]

mpc-hc is the best. i love how you can manipulate the overscan, makes letterboxed movies play on tv's easy and as large as you want.

 

[lowrider69]

I stay away from codec packs entirely since many of them have nice little trojans or other malware packaged in there for you as a bonus.