Comments on: Quick Overview: Free Media Players

By: Wen

Wen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:18:02 +0000

Has anyone heard of or tried this media player? I really like it but I haven’t gotten it all figured out yet so there’s a couple of quirky things it does that irritate me but other than that it’s excellent.

J. River Media Jukebox
http://www.mediajukebox.com/index.html

By: Greener

Greener — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:17:17 +0000

There are several things you might want to know before picking a video player, i have used a lot of .mkv videos therefore there is only a handful of programs that will actually play them effectively and not completely blow through your ram. VLC is great but it can occasionally get choppy and drop frames which is bad when you watching movies in hd. The best free media player that I have found is called Media Player Classic, I do a lot of stuff with movies on my computer and I have not found one type of video codec that it cannot play. And about dropping frames i think it dropped 2 frames within a 12000 frame movie, which is excellent. and it uses a very small amount of ram which makes it the best on my list. But unless you are like me and watching hd movies i would advise VLC player, the user interface is easier and it will play almost any file.

By the way when you see media player classic dont think of windows media player, they are not the same programs.

so again those are VLC media player and Media Player Classic
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

By: vwalien

vwalien — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:18:56 +0000

I agree, I was a HUGE VLC fan for so long, and then someone recommended k-media player to resolve my issues with jittery video playback on my asus eee pc. As soon as I tried k-media player (kmp), I uninstalled vlc on all my systems, and only use k-media player.

It is awesome.

By: alper

alper — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:25:02 +0000

You should really give “k-media player” (kmp) a try. Don’t confuse with kmplayer, based on mplayer. It is totally different. I was using BSPlayer and vlc together and at the end of the first week I started to use kmp, I uninstalled both. The latest version:

http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4094

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:25:16 +0000

VLC covers all my needs, without the headaches.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:04:14 +0000

When compiling this list, I was all ready to extol the virtues of CrystalPlayer, until I checked their webpage and discovered that they no longer offer the free version! The free version has been scrapped in favour of a $30 pro version – no thanks!

What company in their right mind would scrap a perfectly good free version of their software? Especially these days when free and open-source players are all over the net.

By: M0we

M0we — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:12:54 +0000

I use either MediaPlayer Classic or VLC for video, and either Quintessential Media Player (QMP) or winamp (v5.5 rocks!) for music.

Also Windows media player is not free (as VLC or QMP are), so it is not an option for the open-source\freeware ardent.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:06:45 +0000

“… MediaPlayer Classic, which plays just about anything” Totally agree. It’s especially handy for playing all those (…) video downloads.

By: Â²is

Â²is — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:11:50 +0000

KMplayer – based on MPlayer – it’s La Creme De La Creme – highly configurable – fun to use

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:39:23 +0000

How about MPlayer for windows? MPlayer has been an open source staple for a long time, and now there are some decent UIs for it, it’s excellent on Windows. I get my build from http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/

There’s also MediaPlayer Classic, which plays just about anything