Assassinator Wrote:

Senseito URΩBΩROS Wrote:It's indeed a shame to see VLC go back as it has, this bad work on MKV has really, truely tarnished its Rep amoungst Anime Fans (not that it wasn't already).

I use VLC for music, MPC for video. Weird, but that's what I've done since like forever.

And it's more the (use to be) lack of proper support for softsub rather than for MKV.

Senseito URΩBΩROS Wrote:Oh well...

I've learnt to love both VLC and MPC-HC... cause VLC does the rest better (on slower machines)

VLC shouldn't be (significantly) faster than FFDShow (what MPC and everything else uses). They both use the same thing to decode (libavcodec)...

Try CoreAVC. Is about 30-40% faster on H.264 from my experience. (I'm assuming you're talking about H.264. if your comp is lagging on XviD, you need an upgrade more than anything).

CoreAVC is ideal for watching HD stuff on slower computers. For a little faster PCs, XBMC is very good.

But essentially speaking, what sets apart some players is their native support for popular as well as obscure formats. GOM, for instance (I don't use other players, so can't comment) has an inbuilt codec for all the popular formats, without needing an extra codec pack. I think that is the way, most newer players will go.

Bottom line is that with proper codecs, most modern players are practically same.