Gaming Replacement for windows media player

da_head · Nov 17, 2008

so my media player is fucked up, and i decided it's finally time to move on. any recommends? nothin to complicated, but preferable something with nice skins. thx in advance (i have xp btw)

EDIT: i meant a program for music, not videos. sry guys (already have vlc and media player classic for that)

IceRentoraa29 · Nov 17, 2008

You can try VideoLAN player or Media Player Classic.....or even *shudder* RealPlayer

Takaishi · Nov 17, 2008

start> Run> mplayer2

or videolan

Diablo1123 · Nov 17, 2008

VideoLan player is awesome

webyugioh · Nov 17, 2008

VideoLan (or VLC) is great,
if you really want to,
you can download CCCP
and it has everything you could possibly want.

I currently use MPC (Media Player Classic)
that was included in the CCCP.

Joe88 · Nov 17, 2008

K-LITE(VLC + WINAMP)

I found CCCP to be quit annoying

tenchan4 · Nov 17, 2008

I totally agree that CCCP is the way to go.

You can play any media type you throw at it, using the included media player classic, in combination with all the codecs it installs.

KDH · Nov 17, 2008

MPlayer is the best player I've found, no matter what OS you use.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Javacat · Nov 17, 2008

For playing individual tracks and videos then it's got to be MPC (combined with CCCP).

If you're after all the media library stuff that's in media player then your best option is probably Winamp. Unfortunately the latest versions of Winamp have TONS of crap included with them that I spend ages clearing out, although after that Winamp is nice and nippy and I love the media library built into it. You could also have a look at foobar2000, which is a very powerful media player, with low memory and CPU usage whilst still being highly customisable (and loved by audiophiles), but it can take awhile to get it tweaked to how you like it.

I might get lynched saying this, but iTunes is quite good as well

You can also combine iTunes and foobar2000

air2004 · Nov 17, 2008

VLC is by far the best and lightest of all the clients

War · Nov 17, 2008

VLC hands down.

Jiggah · Nov 17, 2008

MPC + ffdshow

Banger · Nov 17, 2008

VLC or GOM.

Instead of using codec packs just install the codecs you need.

Pizzaroo · Nov 17, 2008

VLC. Sex on a stick (unless you don't watch pron)

DeMoN · Nov 17, 2008

I suggest downloading a codec pack for Windows Media Player. That's what I did and now it plays everything (even more support than VLC has).

Plus you actually get thumbnails instead of the traffic cone icon.

TLSpartan · Nov 17, 2008

MPlayer is good(SMPlayer is a nice front end as well). But for when I play songs from library of music I use Quod Libet which does not have a windows build.

rscarrab · Nov 17, 2008

Music -> Winamp + Azenis 2 [skin] + g-force 3.7.5 [vis]
Video -> VLC

Joe88 · Nov 17, 2008

rscarrab said:
Music -> Winamp + Azenis 2 [skin] + g-force 3.7.5 [vis]

I actually just like to use the default skin with nitevision color scheme and the Osciloscope_and_VU_meter visualizer
Virtual_Dimension_RMX is a nice theme though and Proyections

GreatFox · Nov 17, 2008

Well, audio or video?

For audio, I use foobar2000 with fooNION theme.
As for video, Media Player Classic with ffdshow.

xcalibur · Nov 17, 2008

tenchan4 said:
I totally agree that CCCP is the way to go.

You can play any media type you throw at it, using the included media player classic, in combination with all the codecs it installs.

Sadly, not anymore. I notice it gives me slowdowns on 720p video.
I suggest people get mpc-homecinema and corecodec AVC

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