I need a media player for my computer, but I have had no experience with any of them. I am wondering what is recommended by others who have more experience.

I would personally recommend winnamp 5.56:
http://www.winamp.com/

I`m using this video/audio player for quite a long time with no problems here.

I'd recommend VLC for video and Foobar 2000 for music, it can be a bit complicated to start with but it's pretty versatile, but you may want to look at Lifehacker, they done a people survey of the best media players and this is what they recommend Top Five

yes vlc is the best imo

Personally I love KMPlayer, plays every format I throw at it

Thanks, JDPower, got it, will try it. Had an old ver, never tried it.

I'm gonna give KM a go as well, I've always been a fan of VLC, so a change may be nice.

>:( Ahh crappy "Pandora TV 4HD" ask.com toolbar came down with it, and no I didn't miss unchecking the tickbox (i always keep an eye out for it).
1. it adds the toolbar
2. it sets the serchbox default as ask.com. (even after uninstall it leaves ask.com in the search provider list, thankfully not set as default anymore)

It seems to be randomly installing anyway... so be prepared to uninstall a toolbar if you try this.
http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread....4989&page=2


note: I'm all happy with optional toolbars even if pre-checked, as long as i Always get an option to uncheck it "before" its installed!

Audio - Foobar2000
Plays most audio formats, and it's a feather weight without any bloat, plus can be portable put onto CD's and DVD's as a player directly from those discs.

Video 1 - MPUI with MPlayer
Plays a literal ton of stuff, plus can be portable put onto CD's and DVD's as a player directly from those discs.

Video 2 - Media Player Classic Homecinema
Good if you already have the necessary codecs pre-installed, and good for "almost gapless" video playback of split videos.

That's what I use, and haven't had the need for anything else, and all three are free as well.

jd knows


yes vlc does contain all its own codecs and does not require any system libraries. So whoopie doo it can play mostly anything. Which means all the codecs are older versions.

it cannot support subtitles for avi (and .rst, .psb, .usf, .ssf) though this might of changed now. as that was a older version ???????????

The only props i will give it is the ability to play incomplete downloads.

I prefer KMP it can do every thing VLC can do only better, and is lower in cpu then VLC,

i also suggest MPC-HC with ffdshow

I agree with Ident. I switched from VLC to KMP a few weeks ago after hearing about it, and I've never looked back. Is there anything this player can't play lol?

I mostly use SMPlayer exclusively now but keep others as well.

Thanks for all the great suggestions.

If others want to comment, I will appreciate all advise.

For video I use MPlayer & for audio I use Spider

Have a look and see what you think - I'm very happy with both.

Well that's a bit of a PITA, have never had a problem with it doing that before so will be extra vigilant when its next updated (though will hopefully be fixed by then)

I use VLC Media Player..