I'm questing for the be-all, end-all of media players for Windows Vista/7.
I've tried Winamp and hate the interface; too many frames, too clunky, and the podcast support leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm currently using MediaMonkey - which I dig for audio, but it doesn't have any video support.
Windows Media Player requires all kinds of codec patches to play some of the more obscure file types.
Is there anything out there that's a phenomenal 1-stop solution for playing video (both from disc and digital), supporting multiple audio formats, and a handy podcast subscription manager?
To further be a pill, I'm adamantly anti-iTunes.
Thanks in advance,
/phil
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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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M$I have used this as my primary player for years.
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right on; same comment as on @orange's post ... i'll check it out.
i've been familiar with VLC for eons ... well, maybe not eons ... but a long time, and never really gave it much of a shot aside from whipping it out to view those obscure video files one finds every now and again.
thanks.
LOL Yeah, Orange can have this one =)
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As for music I think Foobar 2000 is the best. It may not have the looks but is infact very good. (Much better then winamp IMO)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
http://www.foobar2000.org/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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in playing around with VLC, it seems great as far as what it can play.
the interface leaves a lot to be desired, though - i'm not a fan of the modular component of it. that is, how the playlist shows up in a separate window, and the library shows up in a separate window, and they don't seem to "lock" together into a whole, unified player/library.
am i missing something with that?
wow, really? i have VLC installed on my machine and always wrote it off as "just a video player" ... never really delved into the audio side of it.
i'll definitely give it a shot.
You never said it had to be pretty :) just kiddin! Check out the different skins here, see if any of them work better for you:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php
I <3 VLC
+1 for VLC, it's played anything I've ever needed it to, and I occasionally find some pretty obscure file types.