I'm sick and tired of jumping back and forth between the various video players I have installed on my computer. Is there one program that will play it all? MOV, AVI, MPG, and MKV are the main ones I use.

I know Quicktime for Mac has a bunch of plugins that let you play any and all formats on God's green earth, but are they available for Windows Quicktime?

(This post was last modified: 19/04/2008 01:15 PM by Chroma.)

media player classic/media player classic homecinema + CCCP
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
http://tibrium.neuf.fr/index.html
http://www.cccp-project.net/

i personally use mplayer and its binary codecs with smplayer as its frontend
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

Metalgear, do yourself a favor and do this.

1) Uninstall ANY special Media Player(s) and Codecs/Codec Packs
2) Download CCCP from here: http://www.cccp-project.net/
3) Install the COMPLETE Package! (Media Player Classic should be selected with the Complete package)
4) Be Sure to follow its EVERY INSTRUCTION, including Resetting All to Default.
5) Enjoy everything with everything, stick to Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player.

i like winamp..  the visuals on the desktop are cool..  I like media player 2..

Why is it hard to move from 1 to the other.

Senseito Sakura Wrote:Metalgear, do yourself a favor and do this.

1) Uninstall ANY special Media Player(s) and Codecs/Codec Packs
2) Download CCCP from here: http://www.cccp-project.net/
3) Install the COMPLETE Package! (Media Player Classic should be selected with the Complete package)
4) Be Sure to follow its EVERY INSTRUCTION, including Resetting All to Default.
5) Enjoy everything with everything, stick to Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player.

Good idea, except,

2) I found CCCP to not have enough codecs. For a complete codec pack that allows you to play like 99.99% of everything out there, try the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.
5) Forget WMP. MPC plays everything WMP plays, and has way better support for different formats.

(This post was last modified: 19/04/2008 10:23 PM by Assassinator.)

Assassinator Wrote:Good idea, except,

2) I found CCCP to not have enough codecs. For a complete codec pack that allows you to play like 99.99% of everything out there, try the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.
5) Forget WMP. MPC plays everything WMP plays, and has way better support for different formats.

K-lite has everything anyone would need too play any video. I have (or had, I need to check) a custom build of Mplayer the would play everything, no install needed, so that makes it great for USB drives. If anyone is going to ask, yes it plays WM3.

MPUI is a GUI for MPlayer, though I like the VLC GUI better, so for portability, I'd just use that.

For a player, Media Player Classic or KMPlayer (very similar to MPC, but I like the OSD).


For codec packs - most of them rely on ffdshow to do most of the decoding, so there's not too much difference.  K-Lite includes Real / QT Alternative as well as VFW codecs as a plus.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:For a player, Media Player Classic or KMPlayer (very similar to MPC, but I like the OSD).

another vote for KMPlayer :D
i have been using it for a few years and it works very well. i play absolutely everything with it :D