Author Topic: Favorite Media Player (Read 6533 times)

jaybug · « **Reply #40 on:** July 01, 2010, 04:16:12 AM »

I'm in no way an expert at Codecs. So I am grateful I have yet to have any problems with my player on my Windows 7 32bit system.

Snuts · « **Reply #41 on:** July 21, 2010, 01:08:08 AM »

I've been using MPC-HC for a long time but recently it started artifacting so badly on higher quality videos that it is almost useless to me now, even after I reinstalled klite and did some video card driver updates. My other problem with it is on lower quality videos (480p) the audio is terrible. I don't like that trade off.
I'm now back to using VLC and hoping that I don't have the subtitle problems that caused me to stop using it a few years back.

Regardless, its almost time for a new computer so I'm not gonna worry about it.

x5ga · « **Reply #42 on:** July 21, 2010, 10:59:32 AM »

For SD content/DVDrips/TVrips/music I use WMP12 + ffdshow + haali + vsfilter + some other directshow filters (for FLAC/APE/etc.) and with the media foundation disabled. This way I can use the audio mixer in ffdshow to deliver sound to all my 10 speakers without using the 'speaker fill' option in the sound card's settings app (which sounds horrible/distorted). Also the media library in WMP12 looks good after you make ID3 tags for all your music files and add the album art (even if it took me 2 weeks for ~1650 albums).

For HD content I use MPC-HC+madVR+ffdshow+haali+vsfilter. madVR is the best-looking renderer out there (and the most resource-hungry one), if you connect the PC to an external projector / big plasma or LCD screen you'll see the difference. vsfilter because the internal subtitle renderer in MPC-HC doesn't work on madVR, and ffdshow's sucks at rendering karaoke/vertical text/typesetted signs.

Sosseres · « **Reply #43 on:** July 21, 2010, 11:21:58 AM »

Just tested mplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . Not worth the time, lagging in 1080p while using below 50% on one core...

siferhumen · « **Reply #44 on:** July 21, 2010, 10:51:53 PM »

VLC (1.1.1) have never failed me ones

Playing 720p and 1080p and what ever format i download from BakaBT.
Whats up whit all this VLC hate it is a great media player from 1.0 got out but before 1.0 it was Mhe player

Sosseres · « **Reply #45 on:** July 21, 2010, 10:58:14 PM »

Quote from: siferhumen on July 21, 2010, 10:51:53 PM

VLC (1.1.1) have never failed me ones
Playing 720p and 1080p and what ever format i download from BakaBT.
Whats up whit all this VLC hate it is a great media player from 1.0 got out but before 1.0 it was Mhe player

How good is the subtitle support? That and seeking has always been the major problems.

siferhumen · « **Reply #46 on:** July 21, 2010, 11:28:24 PM »

Quote from: Sosseres on July 21, 2010, 10:58:14 PM

Quote from: siferhumen on July 21, 2010, 10:51:53 PM
VLC (1.1.1) have never failed me ones
Playing 720p and 1080p and what ever format i download from BakaBT.
Whats up whit all this VLC hate it is a great media player from 1.0 got out but before 1.0 it was Mhe player

How good is the subtitle support? That and seeking has always been the major problems.

I my self have no problem whit either of this but i lookt around but what i can fined is that this problems was before 1.0 was realest but i am not sure $:-\$
but try it out ones more 1.1.1 have GPU acceleration ^^

Sosseres · « **Reply #47 on:** July 22, 2010, 02:04:28 AM »

K, opinion of VLC. Download was fast, install was fastish, a bit unclear what each part does.

First file I start to play, 2 minute wait for font cache...

Sound continues to play after I hit space to pause, for roughly half a second. Seeking seems to work now (except a minor sound stutter and the occasional missed subtitle line, but that isn't worse than most other players). (Chihiro 1080p Tales of Vesperia, no lagging so normal. Subs looked fine.)

Options for subtitles are still a bit bland compared to the competition (even using the full settings menu instead of the basic one), still much better than earlier VLC versions.

It utterly failed to show external ordered chapters in the correct order. Coalgirls True Tears episode one is the example I used to test this. When it should be playing the OP it was playing the first part of the content after it. This is already a breaking problem and I've tested 2 files to find one. Even manually trying to get it to go to the correct chapter fails and just starts the episode over from the content after the OP, same problem with the ED.

Third file. I try to switch from the vobsub track to the srt track. Doesn't work. Angel Cop by SSP-Corp.

edit, In summary, much improved from the earlier VLC, still not working good enough.

siferhumen · « **Reply #48 on:** July 22, 2010, 11:18:44 AM »

Quote from: Sosseres on July 22, 2010, 02:04:28 AM

K, opinion of VLC. Download was fast, install was fastish, a bit unclear what each part does.

First file I start to play, 2 minute wait for font cache...

Sound continues to play after I hit space to pause, for roughly half a second. Seeking seems to work now (except a minor sound stutter and the occasional missed subtitle line, but that isn't worse than most other players). (Chihiro 1080p Tales of Vesperia, no lagging so normal. Subs looked fine.)

Options for subtitles are still a bit bland compared to the competition (even using the full settings menu instead of the basic one), still much better than earlier VLC versions.

It utterly failed to show external ordered chapters in the correct order. Coalgirls True Tears episode one is the example I used to test this. When it should be playing the OP it was playing the first part of the content after it. This is already a breaking problem and I've tested 2 files to find one. Even manually trying to get it to go to the correct chapter fails and just starts the episode over from the content after the OP, same problem with the ED.

Third file. I try to switch from the vobsub track to the srt track. Doesn't work. Angel Cop by SSP-Corp.

edit, In summary, much improved from the earlier VLC, still not working good enough.

Glad to see that many of the problems was solved for you

But the failed to show external ordered chapters in the correct order seems weird $:-\$
the same whit the vobsub problem

but i guess it dosent always work

kuurozaki · « **Reply #49 on:** July 27, 2010, 02:00:06 AM »

either use CCCP or K-Lite Codec Pack which came with Media Player Classic..
or try using SPlayer

(I think it's based on Media Player Classic too)

Pentium100 · « **Reply #50 on:** July 27, 2010, 06:00:42 PM »

ZoomPlayer for video, Media Player Classic for audio.

tinlup · « **Reply #51 on:** July 27, 2010, 06:09:14 PM »

The KMPlayer for all video, WinAmp for all audio

Berserkergan · « **Reply #52 on:** August 07, 2010, 04:16:14 PM »

GOM PLAYER,
prob the best media player i have used to date
i can use any video file and have very little trouble with any audio

Koaffee · « **Reply #53 on:** August 08, 2010, 01:01:43 AM »

MPC-HC with k-lite pack has always been my favorite. Ive tried different things like VLC and CCCP, but there just something about k-lite that always works for me.

Aadieu · « **Reply #54 on:** October 25, 2010, 03:44:09 PM »

KMPlayer.

Infinity+1 # of settings, tweaks, and options. Definitely not for amateurs or housewives, though

rostheferret · « **Reply #55 on:** October 25, 2010, 04:51:12 PM »

Until MPC users can point me to the yadif de-interlacer, I'm happy with VLC. The main complaint against it seems to be that it has laggy seeking and lousy chapter support. It does, but how often do you watch something from the middle anyway? I have MPC on my system, and it looks ugly, offers no improvement that I can discern upscaling files, hogs more memory from my graphics card (it forces Aero to shut down, though this could be the output settings admittedly) as well as more RAM, takes longer to load a file, and I for one hate fancy subtitles. I'm happy leaving them plain and easy to read; I'd rather spend as little time looking at them as possible tbh.

Only thing I want now is a de-noise filter to further help fix dodgy rips people have made.

fohfoh · « **Reply #56 on:** October 25, 2010, 06:33:55 PM »

I'm beginning to have issues with CCCP. I didn't realize how much resources mkv uses on a strict CCCP diet.

I personally use zoom + CCCP + coreavc now.
VLC is a close second
My computer is incapable of dealing with CCCP by itself.

halfelite · « **Reply #57 on:** October 25, 2010, 09:27:54 PM »

I use a popcorn hour for 95% of all my viewing the other 5% is mplayer on osx

kitamesume · « **Reply #58 on:** October 09, 2011, 08:52:21 AM »

blame newy for the necro. http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=32282.0

Video player - MPC-HC+LAV+MadVR(yea i`m nuts)
using as this guide says http://coalgirls.wakku.to/?page_id=4611

Music player - WMP12 widget

darren42 · « **Reply #59 on:** October 09, 2011, 09:40:42 AM »

I use MPC-HC with the K-Lite codec pack for pretty much everything, it gives me no troubles at all even with 10bit files