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Comment from Anirudh DSP on 2009-11-20

2009-11-20T21:33:37Z

I prefer the KM player...Though VLC is great, the user interface and the controls are not that easy to use and the fast forward really gives me a pain, with the video occasionally stopping or showing funny colours...and the Real player is horrible!!!! no proper controls and an even more stupid GUI.KM player has a really cool interface and absurdly simple keyboard controls and it can play almost all formats, except the real media files....I would suggest trying it out.....

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Comment from SmokeKing on 2009-11-20

2009-11-20T11:32:44Z

i think the vlc is a little not user friendly, because when i want to move the subtitles to outside of a movie, to the black area that you have in a widescreen lcd i just cant move them with my mouse. i need to go to options preferences and give it a number and get my feedback if its ok with that number or should i give a lower or higher one.

and i cant just drag and drop a subtitle on vlc while im watching a movie, it ruins it out. im turkish so i watch with turkish subtitles and if i see they translated it wrong i just switch to english subtitles. but i need to reopen the video in vlc player for that.

if vlc was more user friendly it would be the best video player that i came across but it makes me mad that i need to struggle with little things that i can make with my mouse drag and drops at my other player.

and i only use vlc player when i play my online game as my normal video player has an issue when im on game it doesnt show anything, so i have to use vlc those times. as i mentioned vlc is good but not the best.

im using mv2player with k lite codec pack and i disabled its matroska, real time and quick time alternatives as i download their latest version manually.

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Comment from jacob smith on 2009-10-31

2009-11-01T00:31:05Z

An average user will download VLC media player generally and would be happy with it. But for sure its interface is not so energetic and compelling. K-lite is also a good option with many codecs involved.

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Comment from saravanan on 2009-09-20

2009-09-20T12:39:36Z

I'd prefer Zoom player combined with K-lite codec package. Its really cool. You should try it.

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Comment from johan on 2009-08-31

2009-09-01T05:34:13Z

If you want a media player, VLC is the best. You might need to complement VLC with a proprietary player for DRM content though.

If you want a media center check out XBMC and Moovida (I actually work for the company that makes Moovida, thus I might be a bit biased, but you can try it for free ;).

Johan

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Comment from Pindurs on 2009-08-29

2009-08-30T02:24:02Z

I tried moovida, and I really hated it, it's not following the usual logic of softwares, and is not intuitive at all. For example, almost every player goes and leaves full screen with a double click, not moovida. I was able to leave full screen only with ESC, and then I wasn't able to turn back to full screen. No right click menu, etc.
Why to do that ? Every developper knows that it's a bad idea not to follow the standard rules, unless your program is totally intuitive. Almost nobody will lose time trying to understand your logic if he's not forced. Human beeings are lazy.

Personally, I only use smplayer and VLC, and no codec pack. There is nothing I can't play.
The one I prefer is smplayer, when I play a movie, it's usually using less than 1% CPU !

And for the music I use AIMP 2, which has an excellent tag editor and a beautiful sound.

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Comment from lily on 2009-08-10

2009-08-10T22:43:20Z

vlc the best

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Comment from Suraj on 2009-08-02

2009-08-02T15:33:42Z

Yes I have read this article and all tha users except the above one are really average.They don't know anything.I know that VLC is the best but you can also use Power DVD or Super DVD player.SuPER DVD player supports all the formats except AVI and FLV.VLC just closes while playing FLV.And some rare formats are not suppoted by VLC Too.So a combination of real,quicktime,VLC and Power DVD will enable us to play any format onn our computer.I don't know about moovida.I have all the four players so there is no format that my computer cannot play.But if moovida really supports all the formats and codecs I recommend to use that midia player only.
Thanks for reading.

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Comment from Chris clap on 2009-07-17

2009-07-17T09:24:38Z

After reading this review i have to say that i personaly believe that Moovida is the best media player i have come across an still use ttoday.

It is worth downloading for free to give it a good.

www.moovida.com

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Comment from Sean on 2009-07-13

2009-07-13T14:15:47Z

For the sheer amount of things it can do, VLC is great; especially for playing video over networks. I don't use it personally because the interface sucks and it has some nasty latency issues (especially with anime encoded in MKVs for me). K-Lite is alright...if you don't mind installing the 9/10s worth of bloatware that comes with it. I suppose if you're a developer it's a goldmine of codecs, but I'm just a guy wanting to watch movies and anime on his computer. CCCP works just fine and I'm finding it's simpler to correlate it with MPC without issue than K-Lite and it's barrage of weak players.

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Comment from Justin k on 2009-05-22

2009-05-23T04:46:07Z

Just install k-lite mega codec pack and/or xp codec pack, they will handle just about ALL codec needs!

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Comment from pablo on 2009-04-30

2009-04-30T18:15:47Z

Really BAD recomendation, specially for average users, that dont know how to deal with codecs, an issues between them. The best for an average user will be download VLC media player. Just install it and thats it, you can play almost all the formats for audio and video. And your computer will thank you, because when you install all the players for each codec, this will make your computer slower, beacuase it will load a lot of crap when you start it.

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Comment from Sean on 2009-04-14

2009-04-15T05:15:23Z

Gom player - plays broken vids and improves the quality of vid. have a look, google it. or somthin

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Comment from Angus on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T05:56:56Z

KMPlayer

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Comment from goyya on 2009-03-08

2009-03-08T19:39:03Z

best media player is 2009 - RAIsoft Total Media Player

watch Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nou3eB5g8yk

Buy or download free trial
raisoft2011.webs.com/

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Comment from sindhia rajguru on 2009-03-08

2009-03-08T17:15:35Z

WMP can't play stand-alone VOB files. Media player classic does not have repeat A-B function. Jet audio can't play audio in some vob files. KM player freezes if you first-forward too often. The best trouble-free with all the lovable features is NERO SHOW TIME, take it or leave it.

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Comment from XCAMPLUS on 2009-02-24

2009-02-24T12:58:39Z

THE KMPLAYER best media player in the world

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Comment from Crazy Fuk on 2009-01-23

2009-01-23T18:55:01Z

WMP rox, bar none. It's the king of queens! And I'm not just saying that because they pay, I'm saying it because I find it funny that average people can talk like they're upselling magazines. So yeah, Windows Media Player, own it. BEFORE it OWNS YOU!!!!

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Comment from Thorgal on 2008-12-15

2008-12-15T21:16:09Z

Nothing bits ALLPlayer and automatic sub downloader + Coverflow made out of downloaded covers.. LiveUpdate scans PC and let you get latest codecs..

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Comment from J E on 2008-11-29

2008-11-29T23:01:09Z

I love MediaMonkey for my audio. It's intended to be used with large collections like mine which is around 35GB with over 100 discographies. For Vids I use VLC but I hate the fact it doesn't save your place.

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Comment from chris on 2008-10-29

2008-10-29T12:47:15Z

strange none of you mentioned the jet audio player at all. Mostly VLC or real or quicktime. I have used jet audio since its inception some years back and i found it to be the best player out there bar none. It has plug ins for quicktime winamp real and windows. It also has file associations for all players that i mentioned. Including matroska which seems to be the best codec going for players to use. If anyone has not seen this player go to Cowan america and get it for free. You get the basic but not all the features, like burning and such but....for what it makes up for is real excellent viewing movies or listening to songs of your favorite flavor. Most pro players will always need money for the extras, but who cares?. Ill stick with jet audio, as for VLC its fine to a point, the only thing jet cannot play is BIN or CUE files thats what vlc is for. Not even windows or real comes close to jet in any way. And it does NOT hog resource power thats what real and windows players do. So go get jet audio, you will not be disappointed.

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Comment from Kevin on 2008-10-27

2008-10-27T10:43:04Z

i think "Dziobas RAR" Player caught my eyes, its works like magic. =) hahah i use Media Player classic before.. and thanks to this =) i found Dziobas RAR Player

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Comment from noone on 2008-10-12

2008-10-13T02:07:28Z

zoom layer is the best

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Comment from Kadric on 2008-09-24

2008-09-25T01:24:12Z

I think thatthe best player is "Dziobas RAR Player". it plays every kind of file (audio and video).
If you have a video compressed file like RAR file you don't have to extract it, just open it with "Dziobas RAR Player" and it will play the video. And you can ajust the aspect ratio so you can anjoy watching full screen video.For me it is THE Best Player ever.
Play dvd, mvk, avi, mpge, ogg, rar(forward), password rar (no forward)
Play all files without codecs. Play rar files without extracting.
Play AVI, MPGE, RMVB, OGG, MP3, RAR, MKV, MKA and some not popular
formats.
Subtitles support
Automatic download subtitles form opensubtitles.org using hash.
Image grabber function(generate thumnails)
More filters.

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Comment from kash on 2008-09-14

2008-09-15T00:01:29Z

MPlayer or mplayer frontends like SMPlayer 0.5.62 -works on both Windows and Linux ,one of the better media players. Played everything i tried on it. Nice interface, easy to use.also media player classic+ CCCP codec pack is also good.Media Player Classic and GomPlayer were, IMO, at the top. However both had issues handling subtitles in movies, resulting in frame skips occasionally. SMPlayer has not had this problem .

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Comment from flex on 2008-09-14

2008-09-14T11:30:31Z

I think KMPlayer is Best media player . It is more powerful then VLC & GOM Player

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Comment from swaroop on 2008-09-01

2008-09-01T16:35:55Z

hey guys... see VLC Media player that plays ANYTHING!!!!... yes!! it plays almost any audio and video files that i have seen so far!!

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Comment from manoj.vg on 2008-08-19

2008-08-20T03:52:16Z

"KM Player"....Is one Of the Best......

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Comment from sphinx on 2008-07-14

2008-07-15T00:51:29Z

I found out about KMPlayer lately and i am impressed. It lacks Help option though. Pressing F1 will direct you to its home page in the web. That's the down-side of it. But I love it! I could adjust the video settings and change the aspect ratio. No other free media player players can do that. I even had it reconfigured to become portable and play real media & quicktime. VLC can't play real media anyway. It has got plenty of downloadable skins for free, the software is free anyways.

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Comment from dbpvr on 2008-07-12

2008-07-12T13:54:54Z

Jetaudio is the best plays everything
video (wmv,asf,rm,QT,divx)
audio (wma,mp3,mp3pro,etc)

has full suround BBE etc

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Comment from bzrwon on 2008-07-09

2008-07-09T09:17:57Z

VLC has terrible latency issues, like skipping forward and getting that "choppy effect", WMC is far superior if you dl the codecs you need but each to their own, different pcs, different needs.

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Comment from ED on 2008-04-12

2008-04-12T16:31:55Z

VLC media player is lightweight and can play anything you throw at it. Period. sadly its still not version 1.0 ...

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Comment from Amin on 2008-04-05

2008-04-05T13:29:58Z

VLC's UserInterface is not very good. It makes you mad just to change the settings. But it's also able to play any formats without the need of any codecs.

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Comment from Lasse on 2008-03-10

2008-03-10T16:55:18Z

Telling someone to install Real Audio should be a punishable offense. You're basically asking people to voluntarily infect their systems with a virus-like application. The same is partially true for Quicktime for Windows.

Foobar2000 is the best audio player.
Media Player Classic is the best video player.

This is not debatable.

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Comment from CartoonDiablo on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T16:30:48Z

The best is the VLC Media Player it recognizes basically ever media file out there. It can also adjust contrast lighting etc as your watching.

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Comment from PABLO on 2007-12-26

2007-12-26T17:58:36Z

The really best (plays DVD, FLV (flash videos from YouTube, MP3, DIVX, XVID, AVI, etc, etc, etc) all the formats availables. codecs includes in path of installation. JUST PLAY!!!!!! donwload free from http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php multilanguages availables.

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Comment from elementler on 2007-12-15

2007-12-15T08:13:49Z

It is ViPlay. So sadly it isn't updated for a long time. And it has issues for Aero theme. Beside that here are some features that makes it a perfect player:

-External and no edges video frame.
-Simple playlist (the most important!)
-Sticky edges (!!!!)
-The perfectly designed OSD.
-Display/change subtitles by just drag and drop on video frame on runtime. (notice: runtime is important)
-Flexible vertical subtitle position by just drag and drop on runtime. (notice: runtime, runtime, runtime...)
-Mouse features: one click pause/play, double click maximize/minimize video frame, wheel volume.
-Keyboard features: left right arrow skip just 5 seconds. (the perfect timing to fast review of video. not annoying like media player, if you miss a word just left arrow and listen it no need to use mouse and wish to find the position).

and many other like playing on desktop background, import any type of skin!!!(every type: wmp, winamp, etc)

sadly the developers are lazy.

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Comment from graham on 2007-11-11

2007-11-11T18:21:35Z

i have had a real problem in the past playing my home videos taken with a samsung s730. most players go wobbly playing avi, but vlc is simple to download, easy to use and free. if you download sothink dvd converter, it will convert your home movies into dvd format that will play on any home dvd machine. and whats best of all is that it's all free.

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Comment from hozeyzachary on 2007-08-28

2007-08-28T07:37:02Z

Totally agree with those who vouch for VLC. Recently, i have this BIG headache of which media player is the best for my system. I've used K-Lite, Storm Codecs, Real, WinAmp, GOM Player, and the list goes on and on, until i met VLC. Yes, VLC. I throw to it just about anything, anything and VLC plays them all. I haven't encounter any codec that it cant play and im still waiting. As for now, VLC is the King!! Period.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Comment from rikimaru_uzumaki on 2007-08-16

2007-08-17T03:47:14Z

VLC for me is the best and the best thing is that its for free and no hassle installing some additional codecs..ive been using it for almost 5 years.

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Comment from gilles on 2007-07-09

2007-07-09T17:48:21Z

Try GOM PLAYER,played everything i,ve thrown at it.
http://www.gomplayer.com/whatisgom.html

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Comment from John Ellerington on 2007-05-14

2007-05-14T09:23:33Z

I agree with Volg - VLC is excellent, particularly for viewing movies with a dual-output video card - the controls remain on the primary monitor, while the video output can be viewed via a video projector connected to the secondary S-video output.

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Comment from kiko on 2007-05-13

2007-05-13T11:40:58Z

for those who want to stick with Windows Media Player - using the Vista codec package at:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Vista_Codec_Package/1159994557/1

will allow playing of ALL formats in WMP - highly recommended and works extremely well

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Comment from salih abdulbaki on 2007-05-12

2007-05-12T15:10:07Z

why do some web pages give me a "plug -in illegal operation.you are strongly advice to close your browser" when i click on their video link.what IF i do not close my browser? what's worst lies ahead? am i missing something?

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Comment from Jack Alexander on 2007-05-12

2007-05-12T10:24:11Z

Also use K-lite codecs pack, with mplayer (lite). You can access properties of a given media file and assign it to mplayer, real(alternative), quicktime(alternative, or VLC. Since M$ tends to make faulty bloatware one might forgo the usage of Win. Media Player or use an earlier version.

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Comment from Volg on 2007-05-11

2007-05-12T05:44:41Z

The best free media player I have found is VLC media player.
http://www.download-all-area.com/vlcplayer/
Plays just about any media file format and has some nice features like play the video as a background. Awsome! Check it out!

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Comment from George Arauz on 2007-05-08

2007-05-08T11:33:36Z

I like Quicktime, but I dont like how sometimes the program has a mind of its own on what it wants to play.

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