Best media player

[Jskid]

I've been using Media Player classic and have been liking it. I don't know why VLC player gets such high rankings, I find it slow and the seeking sucks. What do others recommend?

 

[Anubis]

PotPlayer

 

[Berryracer]

MPC-HC + LAV Filters + MadVR Renderer

best quality you can ever get

 

[Rayb]

+1 for MPC-HC

 

[MontyAC]

MPC-HC with SVP.

 

[gitano]

XBMC + Aeon skin

http://xbmc.org/
http://xbmc.org/skins/aeon/

 

[lakedude]

It really depends on exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

I had trouble with MPC years ago and abandon it in favor of The KMPlayer with built in codecs. I'm sure MPC is much improved by now, it has been years...

XBMC is really nice as well.

VLC is okay. I use VLC or M-Player on Linux but prefer K-Multimedia Player for Windows machines...

If a given video does not play on any one player I just use another. My Windows boxes typically have both VLC and KMP. Between the two they will play about anything.

Don't miss goofing around with codecs at all!

 

[pyonir]

It really depends on exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

Exactly. "Best" is very subjective. I use a combo of Media Player Classic and VLC. Those two are good enough for me.

 

[nature1ders]

There is no contest here, THE KMPlayer used to be great on XP, now it sucks. But it's big brother aka cousin the famous Daum PotPlayer is the most advanced and easily used player available today. NO QUESTION

 

[Dude111]

VLC is awesome but if you want my opinion SCREAMER-RADIO is the best player i have!

One touch record,etc...........

www.screamer-radio.com

I have v3.8 and in my opinion ITS THE BEST VERSION OF THE SERIES!!

 

[lakedude]

There is no contest here, THE KMPlayer used to be great on XP, now it sucks. But it's big brother aka cousin the famous Daum PotPlayer is the most advanced and easily used player available today. NO QUESTION

Checking out PotPlayer...

Just curious, what about The KMP "sucks"?

I like the huge array of settings and options, the huge number of supported media types, the lack of a need for external codecs, the smart on top feature (if your video is paused it will fall to the back, if it is playing it stays in front), the long slider bar (hate short ones for seeking), the space bar pause, the display showing clip length and current play time, and a whole bunch more I don't even remember.

Certainly there could be a better player but you think it "sucks" really?

 

[lakedude]

Okay how do you enable v-sync with PotPlayer?

 

[DirkGently1]

MPC-HC is colour managed, so for those of us with calibrated, wide gamut displays, it's a no brainer.

 

[Berryracer]

MPC-HC with SVP.

That's what I use

After you watch a movie with SVP (Smooth Video Project). nothing looks good anymore except SVP

 

[Bryf50]

Woah I'm surprised this is the first time I've heard of SVP. It's awesome but damn is it CPU intensive. I tested it with some anime and it's a totally new experience. It was a bit too much for even my decently specced laptop in my sig. The only downside was quite a bit of artifacts in some scenes. Using the Artifact Balancing option in the config was able mostly eliminate but at the cost of reduced smoothness.

 

[Berryracer]

Woah I'm surprised this is the first time I've heard of SVP. It's awesome but damn is it CPU intensive. I tested it with some anime and it's a totally new experience. It was a bit too much for even my decently specced laptop in my sig. The only downside was quite a bit of artifacts in some scenes. Using the Artifact Balancing option in the config was able mostly eliminate but at the cost of reduced smoothness.

the first time I tried it was watching The Fast and The furious movie and I was blown away, the cars' motion was so smooth and real I felt I was IN the actual movie!! once you SVP you never can enjoy anything else

it needs a powerful system though

runs smooth as silk on my beast

 

[DirkGently1]

That's what I use

After you watch a movie with SVP (Smooth Video Project). nothing looks good anymore except SVP

I've been trying it out since it was mentioned here. I'd not heard of it previously. I must say that after the initial few uses i have warmed to the HFR effect. It takes some getting used to though. Ultimately i'm going to uninstall it as i can't tolerate the artifacts.

As a proof of concept i think it works tremendously. Perhaps Cameron and Jackson are right that HFR is the way forward. It would be nice if sometime in the future all video is shot at higher frame rates than those we are accustomed to!

Edit: Setting Artifacts Masking to strongest has eliminated all artifacts for me. I just watched The Avengers and it was incredible. I'm completely blown away, to the point where already I would hate to watch anything at low framerate again.

As far as resources during 1080 playback, my 3770k is at around 40% with all cores used and around 25% of my GTX570 being used.

Overall the SVP package is great. Picture and sound quality are far superior to the MPC-HC install that I was using before. I will definitely be sticking with it.

 

[Shephard]

ok my friend always said VLC was the best but I used Media Player Classic. Then you had to get klite codec pack and ffmpeg to get everything running.

well I have been using Windows Media Player but I had to download one of these options because Windows Media Player doesn't play everything.

Judging from google posts people slag off VLC now. I thought it was the king? I only used MPC because it used less system resource. VLC apparently has bad picture quality?

I thought all these media players had the same quality. Some could just playback certain things more smoothly. If you got a codec pack they could all play the same stuff?

Well I got MPC again but people say the quality sucks? Then someone else says you need a LAV Filter or it's worse than VLC. What is a LAV Filter?

Also someone said MPC is not smooth when going through different points of a video?

help!

 

[Remobz]

ok my friend always said VLC was the best but I used Media Player Classic. Then you had to get klite codec pack and ffmpeg to get everything running.

well I have been using Windows Media Player but I had to download one of these options because Windows Media Player doesn't play everything.

Judging from google posts people slag off VLC now. I thought it was the king? I only used MPC because it used less system resource. VLC apparently has bad picture quality?

I thought all these media players had the same quality. Some could just playback certain things more smoothly. If you got a codec pack they could all play the same stuff?

Well I got MPC again but people say the quality sucks? Then someone else says you need a LAV Filter or it's worse than VLC. What is a LAV Filter?

Also someone said MPC is not smooth when going through different points of a video?

help!

OMG!

You made me confused now

 

[blankslate]

VLC is popular because it's hard to find a file that it won't play, even if it's rather no frills as far as the interface goes.

I use winamp for music (old habits die hard) and VLC for most video.

 

[Shephard]

I am talking video players sorry, not music players.

I thought with a codec pack they could all play the same stuff?

But VLC quality sucks and so does MPC without the LAV filter whatever that is.

 

[bbhaag]

I just tried MPC with the SVP package and WOW. The picture is simply stunning. I tried Speed Racer in 1080p because it's an eye candy film and difference is amazing. I did have to up the atifract masking to above average though.

 

[abaez]

Does MPC-HC allow you to queue files up? With VLC you can right-click on a file and Add it to the VLC playlist. That's the only thing preventing me from using MPC.

 

[Remobz]

I just tried MPC with the SVP package and WOW. The picture is simply stunning. I tried Speed Racer in 1080p because it's an eye candy film and difference is amazing. I did have to up the atifract masking to above average though.

I use VLC player and its ok at best.

Problem is that the SVP package would most likely rape my system due to my specs

 

[Shephard]

what is SVP package and what is LAV filter.

why do they all suck at quality without these?

do you need codecs anymore or no?