Comments on: MUO Polls : Free Video Players. What’s your Favorite ?

By: Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:35:35 +0000

Ya you’re right..

KMPlayer is the best!!

Shortcuts:
up – vol increase
down – vol decrease
Right – 5 secs forward
Left – 5 secs backward
ctrl+right – 30 secs forward
ctrl+left – 30 secs backward
Alt+right – 1 min forward
Alt+left – 1 min backward
ctrl+alt+right – 10 mins forward
ctrl+alt+left – 10 mins backward
Numpad del(.) – change playback video size without changing the size of the player
Numpad * – change the aspect ratio, widescreen, etc.
Numpad + – zoom in
Numpad – - zoom out
shift+(numpad+) – increase playback speed
shift+(numpad -) – decrease playback speed
spacebar – pause/play toggle
esc – God!! It is the most useful. It minimizes to the systray! It’s good when dad’s around!!

By: Sah War

Sah War — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:02:25 +0000

VLC + The KMPlayer = favorite best combo!

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By: amit

amit — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:24:22 +0000

VLC & Media Player Classic

By: 919263

919263 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:54:48 +0000

OK… After looking at all the replys…
KMPlayer is the best… although everyone had said their mind but no one has stated why… Here is why KMPlayer is the Best:
NO Installation required: You can extract the files into a folder/thumb drive and play the player from there.

Screen Control: you can control the screen aspect ratio, the clip/media ratio and have options to see the media at 1/2, normal, 1.5 , double and window size… there are custom sizes as well

Player: This is one player that will play anything you throw at it…3gp,AVI, WMA, WMV, DAT, MPEG, MPG, FLV, REAL, QT, DIVX, DVD, VCD… the list goes on…

COntrol: You have a lot of control on the way the media plays, right arrow skips the clip 5 secs, Ctrl + Right Arrow skips it 1 min, you can decrease the speed… anything you want to do… (NOT in VLC)

Tools: Apart from saturation, contrast, brightness at both the SW and the HW level, you can rotate the clip, flip it.. any which way you want…

Sound: It has a built in equilizer, has plugins to clean the sound track, add effects and all….

IN ALL… the BEST Media Player I have seen and I have tried all of the one’s that have been mentioned in this thread…
Link: http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/

My 2 Cents worth….
919263

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By: softapo777

softapo777 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:04:16 +0000

The KM Player- fantastic can-do media player with a brilliant array of audio and video tweaks

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[...] Here are some suggestions to ensure that your video plays fine. (1) Install a media player that can support large number of formats. VLC is a good choice. It’s not the only good video player out there, make sure to check out MakeUseOf Poll on the Best Free Video Players. [...]

By: chris

chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:26:50 +0000

SMPlayer rulez!!

By: Aibek

Aibek — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:34:48 +0000

Cyberlink DVD Player is pretty good, it’s not free though.

By: roi

roi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:32:47 +0000

you forgot zoom player, by far the best player ever!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:48:23 +0000

Meh, VLC. Never liked it. *yawn*
Media Player Classic for the win! I use Media Player Classic and sometimes GOM Player. Both are far superior than VLC, in my opinion.

By: Suman Namburi

Suman Namburi — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:44:38 +0000

SMplayer beats every thing i have tried ,even VLC.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:26:33 +0000

Amarok is great if you use Linux.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:01:20 +0000

kmplayer, its like GOM/VLC but better

By: James

James — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:16:39 +0000

Yeah KMPlayer… It even play FLV files, and it handles subtitles even better than VLC..

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:57:32 +0000

Miro is pretty nice.
http://www.getmiro.com/

By: Nero

Nero — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:20:47 +0000

Rajat hit the nail on the head. VLC is a very good player, nothing should be taken away from it but at this point KM Player is by a few leaps the superior application.

By: david

david — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:08:15 +0000

Cyberlink dvd player – it came with my laptop and it does great for sound quality.

By: Rajat

Rajat — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:30:00 +0000

i use KM player… its better than VLC player in terms of the keyboard shortcuts… and plays movies in ALL formats

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:44:39 +0000

GOM has better interface than VLC with the same capability so it is my fav.

By: nv

nv — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:39:54 +0000

KMPlayer

By: Womble

Womble — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:34:32 +0000

KMPlayer Rules!

By: Marko

Marko — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:26:51 +0000

The KMPlayer !!!!!!!!

By: ADD

ADD — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:15:22 +0000

VLC Media Player, the one the grownups use.

By: NYC

NYC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:44:41 +0000

Crystal Player. I love the way it handles playlists with subtitles. If GOM Player had this kind of features (nice and easy subtitle handling) I would switch inmediately to it.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:23:19 +0000

I generally just use Totem. No reason to go around installing other players. MythTV’s fairly nice for DVDs too, but I uninstalled it.

By: Nxqd3051990

Nxqd3051990 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:21:26 +0000

MPC + ffdshow plugins = play all files

By: Gregor

Gregor — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:19:34 +0000

BS player was, in the starting era of DivX and XviD movies, top notch. really, one of the best media players available. it had many many options other players didn’t have one of them was really subtitles support.

Then, they’ve released new version, full of bloatware which kinda suggested itself, to move to other client. Well,… gomplayer is my favorite, it’s just,.. lately they don’t have any updates at all.

that makes me kinda move again to VLC and find a good theme for it or something ://