best media player

awhir

sorry but what the best media player for playing everthing (music,videos, ex)

MrJoeSoap

I use Windows Media Player and rarely have any problems with it.

edanto

I don't know the best one for everything, but if you want a plain music player with no problems and a tiny memory footprint, try foobar.

Don't have much in the way of videos, but it'd be slick if there was a player for both that didn't use as much memory as MP(at least on my old puter).

chump

TBH I've used winamp for years, maybe 10, but with my latest pc I decided to try the iTunes option. I got rid of all the clutter within and it's been my choice ever since... I particularly like the way it pops onto my toolbar, and it's as clean-as-a-whistle interface!

bungeecork

VLC comes with heaps of codecs and plays back heaps.
DivX player is pretty good I've found.

Media Player is fine as long as it doesn't need to download any codec. Some of the shared movies that other people download seem to be encoded with the hardest-to-fine codecs just to prove a point.

Realplayer I used to love but not so much anymore, it's just so big and hungry.

SouperComputer

winamp+classic skin = sorted

commited

I hate itunes - dreadful program, but just my opinion.
I have music in loads of formats, so winamp is the best choice for me.

DonkeyStyle \o/

For vids: Mediaplayer Classic - without a doubt, a Godsend... I can scale/strech the video whatever way I want, fit exactly to the screen, which is cool because I've got a widescreen monitor and everything seems to come in 4:3 ... it also handles real media, so I don't have to install any of the realplayer muck.
Music: Winamp 2.x - ain't broke, don't fix it

Nukem

Mediaplayer - disconnect all installs and updates,ram it full off codecs and its fine,plays 99% of stuff with a little tweaking;)
Always use divx and realone for backups. Crap that MP doesnt wanna play.

Nukem

mrdeath

i think vlc media player is the best
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

pickarooney

mplayer

byte

For music, I use Winamp

For video, I usually use VLC.

AnCapaillMor

Vlc is by far the best for me, it'll play anything. Don't really bother with music, i use the i-river for that.

rogue-entity

iTunes 6 for my music, mainly cos it works with my iPod mini.
Quicktime and mediaplayer classic for videos, media player10 for ms video formats. Quicktime is good cos you can play vids frame-by-frame by pressing the left and right buttons to go left and right and in mediaplayer you have to select the playspeed enhancement and click the framestep button. Mediaplayer classic plays all my realmedia format stuff really nicly.

I never got used to the winamp interface, so I just never bothered with it. Mediaplayer classic will play ogg files with a little tweaking but itunes doesnt AFAIK.

Syth

MPlayer.

Plays just about everything. It's open source, so it's not going to be screwing you or bugging you to register. It just gets completly out of your way and plays videos (and music).