There are a ton of programs out there, and sometimes it can be hard to sift through them all, but we’ve added your suggestions to the pool and decided that KMPlayer deserves the title. We’ve updated the App Directory page to reflect this, as well as include some of the other choices you guys love. Thanks for all your feedback, and keep it coming! [The Best Video Player for Windows]
Greg
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:07 PMAs much as I like to support Open Source where it’s worthy, there is something to be said about players that use Microsoft DirectShow filters.
The very best codec implementations are made available as DirectShow filters (think CoreAVC for H.264). If the player doesn’t support it, that’s a big negative, and probably isn’t the best player if it doesn’t work with the best decoders.
boris
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:50 PMVLC with ffdshow tryouts codecs is the windows media centre software choice… given about every torrent out there is encoded to work with VLC why would you choose anything else
Alex
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 6:50 PMEh, not a fan. Just downloaded it and tried it… It’s retarded to use. Back to vlc!
Hughhh
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:03 PMOne more vote for VLC. :)
John
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:22 PM+1 VLC
John
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:32 PMVLC. ‘nuf said.
Tom
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 8:46 PM+1 to VLC
toxi
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:01 PMSMplayer?? KMplayer?? You’ve got to be kiding!!
Who writes these posts?
VLC is good but overwhelmingly the best player for windows is media player classic home theater (not windows media player).
People always got confused between the two which is why people don’t know how good it is.
Its good, its free and its open source. And the best feature in my opinion is that it uses pixel shaders. With pixel shaders you can improve the picture of the video, no other player that Im aware of supports pixel shaders. It also has easy access (right click) to DirectShow filter settings.
Brad
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 12:45 AMYeah, there’s this joke that reccurs between me and my friends.
“Is it a media file?”
“Yes”
“Does it work with VLC?”
“No”
“It’s not a media file.”
Anthony
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:47 AMVLC or Media Player Classic
There is no competition to these two :)
Freebacer
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 11:34 AMUsed them all and still I go back to VLC. +1 for VLC. I have never liked the icon though.
Lance
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 12:58 PMI tried that SMPlayer it wouldn’t let me set as default but i did like it as my vlc player is bugging out keeps telling me it crashed and when videos finish in full screen mode it freezes and i need to close it and reopen it to watch something else
Fred
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 9:07 PMKMplayer is definitely the player of choice these days, even the luddite VLC users at work have converted.
Mike Brown
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 5:13 PM+1 for media player classic, VLC suffers horrible tearing with files that media player classic will play smoothly. I still haven’t worked out why this is, but it makes VLC pretty useless for playing most things on my media center.