OT: What Is A Good

Atrocities · #1 August 6th, 2006, 07:18 PM

What is a good free movie viewing program that I can use to watch asorted formated media (video) files on the PC with?

Will · #2 August 6th, 2006, 08:07 PM

http://www.videolan.org/

Baron Munchausen · #3 August 6th, 2006, 08:51 PM

Media Player Classic

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Then get lots of Codecs from http://www.free-codecs.com/

Atrocities · #4 August 6th, 2006, 11:02 PM

Thanks

dogscoff · #5 August 7th, 2006, 06:27 AM

I prefer media jukebox from jriver myself. Got some really nice playlisting facilities.

Fyron · #6 August 7th, 2006, 12:03 PM

What playlisting facilities do you need for movies beyond just a simple ordered list?

dogscoff · #7 August 7th, 2006, 01:04 PM

As well as mp3s I collect music videos in various video formats.

With MJ I can put these video files into my playlists alongside my mp3s, then playlist them according to genre, keyword etc. This is probably fairly standard now, but when I was first looking for these features 4-5 years ago there wasn't much software available that could do it.

And I stay as far away from M$ mediaplayer as I possibly can. I don't think I've ever even used it once on my machine.

Ragnarok-X · #8 August 7th, 2006, 01:53 PM

VLC (Video Lan Client, see post #2) is probably your best choice.

Atrocities · #9 August 7th, 2006, 02:01 PM

Thanks guys. Every time I fire up Real Player my pest patrol thingy starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until I shut that invasive sony wannabe program off. So any player that doesn't attept to "gather" information "from" my PC and "send" it to "unknown" parties would be much preferred.

Fyron · #10 August 7th, 2006, 02:53 PM

Uninstall Real Player and Quicktime, then get the Real and Quicktime Alternatives on the free-codecs site. With these installed, you can play the movies in a general player, such as Media Player Classic. I think VLC is capable of using the codecs as well, but I am not sure since it tends to go against propriety and integrates its own codecs...

Personally, I think MPC is a better player than VLC. Try them both and see which you prefer. Both can even play DVDs, so you don't need any shoddy DVD programs (such as Cyberlink PowerDVD) either.