Alternative to Widows Media Player

[lylo]

The setup I've used for months now with very little hassle is made up of 2 players.

the latest Winamp for all my music/audio needs (Just make sure you set that as your default audio file player), and Media Player Classic for the video side of things, its playlist capabilities do suck but on the other hand it is one of the lightest players out there while still being one of the most functional. Install the Quicktime and Realplayer alternatives alongside it, and youll have a fully working video media player that plays nearly all types straight off

A very solid and lightweight setup

[boooggy]

mv2 player and winamp 2.90

codecs: http://ksphere.free.fr/site/codecspackage.php

[Revo]

The best way to go is media player classic and bsplayer for video

Music: foobar uses 0 and I mean 0 cpu time which makes it perfect for gaming

foobar2000.org

[soldier1st]

media player classic is great.

[Gouki]

I would go for Media Player Classic ... But I wont it to be able to read Video files too!

Tho, I have been looking at foobar and from what ive read, it is capable of doing both. (Audio&Video)

I think ill go with with foobar

[soldier1st]

it can read video and audio files just install quicktime alternative and real alternative and the codecs and your all set.

[atomizer]

i go along with many here... MPC. it's a highly configurable media player. I use nLite to strip XP, including the WMP core files, so along with MPC i use the ffDshow codec pack. For music there's foobar2000 -- not the prettiest player out of the box, but VERY configurable and very good and extendable with plugins.

[Gouki]

I have decided. Ill go with the last version of VideoLAN.

From what I have been reading, it supports almost all files (video and music) with little CPU power and no need for codecs.

Screenshot Here

Home Page Here

Download 0.8.1 Here

BETA 0.8.2 is out but its still BETA.

Download HERE.