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What Media Player do you recommend?
shmokes:
Here's another vote for Media Player Classic. Small. Light. Elegant. Fast. Great UI.
Here's another vote for VLC. Built-in codecs. Every once in a blue moon I'll get a file Media Player Classic can't play in spite of my supposedly having the correct codec; it's good to have a backup, and VLC makes an excellent backup.
Hoopz:
4th vote for VLC. Nothing flashy but I've yet to find a file that it can't play without any problems.
drventure:
I've used J River Media Center for quite some time now (v12, but I know they just reved to v13)
I really like it's tagging functionality (very easy to batch tag MP3's, etc), and it also supports integrating with TIVO over HMO, which is very nice.
It costs a few $, but their support is pretty good, and their forums are quite active.
It's also somewhat programmable (you can write plugins pretty easily).
It's also got a full "theater" mode if you're running it on a media PC in your living room, but I don't do that so I've never really used those aspects of it.
SavannahLion:
+1 for VLC
It's not my media player of choice though. Despite that, it's one of the few media players that, once I get my codecs squared away, I have almost zero problems playing any files. It's got features up the whazzoo. Every time I play with it, I find something new about it.
My player of choice? Media Player. I like to live dangerously. :dunno
It's media support is crummy and needs heavy supplementation for it to be even remotely usable. It's bulkier than I like and media file management is annoying as hell. It borders on iTunes annoying but ever so less useful. Why the ---fudgesicle--- MP can't sort the ---smurfing--- music files properly is beyond me. Despite all of that, MP sports support for the media controls on my laptop. VLC can support the additional keys, but the support is kind of flaky. :-\
Blanka:
VLC, mainly for their excellent subtitle and syncing support. The program even supports video-delay when the sound has to travel a bit on a wireless transmission like Airport!
The only drawback is the bad fastforward/backward when clicking in the time-bar.
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