Updated: The Best Video Player For Windows

14 responses to “Updated: The Best Video Player For Windows”

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   Greg

   August 2, 2011

   As 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.

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   boris

   August 2, 2011

   VLC 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

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   Alex

   August 2, 2011

   Eh, not a fan. Just downloaded it and tried it… It’s retarded to use. Back to vlc!

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4. 

   Hughhh

   August 2, 2011

   One more vote for VLC. 🙂

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   John

   August 2, 2011

   +1 VLC

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   John

   August 2, 2011

   VLC. ‘nuf said.

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   Tom

   August 2, 2011

   +1 to VLC

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   toxi

   August 2, 2011

   SMplayer?? 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.

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9. 

   Brad

   August 3, 2011

   Yeah, 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.”

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10. 

    Anthony

    August 3, 2011

    VLC or Media Player Classic

    There is no competition to these two 🙂

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11. 

    Freebacer

    August 3, 2011

    Used them all and still I go back to VLC. +1 for VLC. I have never liked the icon though.

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12. 

    Lance

    August 3, 2011

    I 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

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    Fred

    August 3, 2011

    KMplayer is definitely the player of choice these days, even the luddite VLC users at work have converted.

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14. 

    Mike Brown

    August 4, 2011

    +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.

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