I reccomend MPlayer with SMplayer frontend. It plays all the formats under the sun. Its got a tiny footprint and it does all those things like sharpen, postprocessing, soften...etc. They're not adjustable though. Its either soften, or no soften. I like Lord_Moulder's build from Doom9. He puts it together in one package and its also optimized for a few CPU types, so you get a little bit of 'free' performance. Here's his stuff: http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects He's also got some other cool utilities. Also, winamp for Audio. Its even great to sync devices like iPods, WMA certified players and etc. I don't like version 5.5 though. Its a little too much. But it still beats the rest, no contest.