What is your favorite media player? For fans of Media Player Class -Home Cinema, it's no longer under development. The developer advises switching to something else. Yes there are others that have continued to develop it (MPC-HC and MPC-BE), but trust has not been earned yet to recommend them to the masses (or just use the MPC GUI as shown in the SMPlayer segment of this video)... Thanks for watching! Cheers :)
Still using MPC, been using it for years and I don't intend on changing to any other player. I hate VLC, it always takes so long to open and I have no idea why. I even installed it once to use a convert feature and even that didn't work. Made me wait 20 minutes to get a video that stopped playing half-way and had no audio. MPC will always be my go to.
@@HajimeKomaeda yeah and im saying also another team has forked it and named it mpc-be it is the same software but with a nicer look to it, you can even customize the colors etc
I always hated RealPlayer I made the mistake of getting real one gold, just because I wanted the download feature then later found out there was free apps that did the job and did the job better
I prefer the look and feel of PotPlayer and it's been my default for a couple of years. However, the colors in videos are just not as vibrant as they are in VLC & GOM Players. I've used all of these players and would definitely have had the GOM player in the top 5 and certainly above the SMPlayer.
if you happen to see this, I just tried PotPlayer for the first time, it seems awesome, I'm not observing a noticable dip in color quality... You would still say PotPlayer over Gom? I used to use KMPlayer, but it constantly keeps asking me if I want to update, and when I update in 2 days new update available... so I cant stand that one anymore
I liked my Windows Media Player til it hit a glitch and wouldn't play files it had before. I uninstalled it thinking I could reinstall it and fix the glitch. Not so. I downloaded the VLC player. Way more difficult to make playlists than WMP which is easy. Worse thing I miss about WMP is I can no longer burn or rip CDs where I could rip tracks off my CDs onto PC then transfer them to my mp3 player for use in my car.
For audiophiles, PlayPcmWin is amazing sounding. It's inconvenient, in that it doesn't store more than one playlist in an organised way, as far as I can tell; you have to drag a cue sheet or m3u file over to it to play an album, or just drag one or more flacs or mp3s over to it to play those tracks. It does remember the last ones you loaded until you clear the list though. The pay off is it's easily the best sounding player I've used.
I tried PlayPcmWin yesterday and the quality was not great, dont know if I did something wrong but the quality was not good. MPC-HC, VLC and the old Winamp has great audio quality.
@@jesselirio5758 It sounds amazing to me, but it doesn't compress or process the sound in any way, it just puts the PCM information of all the songs to be played into the PC's RAM so that the flow won't be interrupted in any way. Make sure it's in Exclusive mode, with 'Render thread task type' set to Pro Audio and 'Priority' set to high. I've recently found a couple of other great audiophile players called Junilabs Audio Player and Bug Head Emperor which do a good job too. I think some people may actually prefer the sound being processed on VLC and Winamp, depending on taste and/or set up though.
I use Kodi, MPC-HC and VLC for different purposes. Like if its a simple avi or mkv file with stereo audio i just drag it into MPC-HC and let it play. But stuff i have as iso virtual discs with either VIDEO_TS folder or BDMV folder i mount the iso file and play the "disc" including menus in Kodi and it sends LPCM to my stereo and multi-channel DTS (Master Audio) or Dolby (TrueHD) audio to my surround system. And VLC is an alternate, like when some blu-ray menus work better in VLC than Kodi. And now Pot Player is no longer "canceled" I might get it again (I used to use it as yet another alternate).
Recently, I had trouble downloading YouTobe videos with VLC. I tried 5K Player and had no problems. I will try some of the media players you recommend.
For downloading purposes, RU-vid-dlp (yt-dlp) is much superior to any 3rd party player so far, with lots of options, quality settings, etc, exactly like FFmpeg (which can stream videos aside of all the media & codec features). It's able to get the source files, batch download/convert/etc, the only downside for some (many), is it's a cmd line softw, so you'll still need a video player aside of it.
VLC kept crashing after version 1.9.1 so I switched to MHC-PC. But MHC-PC doesn't play HDR without madVR which also crashes So I finally switch to MPC. Its lightweight. But also bare-bones, zero features for regular users, first few months were very difficult then I watched how install script on it. After adding a few scripts for example subtitle font size and screen to zoom and pan, changing volume control. I am finally able to use it and I also remember now a lot of keyboard shortcuts which are very useful if you are going to use it.
For me pot player over vlc . Because blc causing probelm in audio of movie while playing video. But in potplayer it played very well with clear audio .
I HOPE TO SEE A NEW FEATURE OF MODERN VIDEO PLAYERS WHERE I CAN ADD TEXT NOTE OR PICTURE TO CERTAIN PAUSED VIEW IN THE VIDEO FILE , ALSO CIRCLE AN EQUATION FOR AN EXAMPLE AND GET DETAILS ABOUT IT FROM GOOGLE ..
KMPlayer = MPC-HC = MPC -BE, they use the same interface. Among them, KMP can play all video file types than the rest can do. And MPCs' UI do not fit with high resolution monitors. The buttons and icons on their UI are extremely tiny to handle on the monitor. VLC is the second choice compared to KMP. RU-vid stream on VLC is very bad because it cannot buffer smoothly, it is really dissapointing. For me, KMP is the best one although it has adware.
MPC is my favourite because I have 5 controls (compared to 3 in VLC) when I hover over it in the taskbar. And yes, it also has a little better GUI than VLC (I have used VLC for 8 years).
@@deous9062 Funny how everyone has different expriences. MPC player is the only player I have found that doesn't leave my videos with an ugly orange tone, I had to work around with the settings but its the only one I have used that makes the colours look normal. Media players are so different for everyone it seems, its interesting.
VLC is the ONLY media player anyone needs, forget all the others. I've been using it for many years; it is the best. I tried Pot Player, DivX player, AIMP Player, Windows Media Player, Nero Media Player, Quick Time player, GOM Player... too many to mention really, VLC IS the BEST of them all. :)
I have many problems with VLC where it's refusing to work with any dvd at all. The computer guy who loaded it on my computer said the same thing you said "you don't need anything else but VLC forget all the others" now more than half the time I wish I hadn't listened to him.
But can it play two videos at the same time and are synchronized? Didn't think so. It also can't preview youtube videos by generating thumbnails when you add a youtube link in the playlist. You are required to click the link in the playlist for the title and thumbnail to appear.If you add many youtube links to the playlist and do not click them they simly appear as URLs and you don't know what they are.
What about 5k player its pretty good too, i downloaded a 4k movie no player not VLC or Pot Player ( which i use personally a lot ). But 5k player played the video without compromising with the video quality a lot.
I used Potplayer on my old computer, but when I got my current system I read that it's now bundled with some sketchy extra stuff, so now I'm back to using VLC again.
While I use VLC for everything, it has problems playing BlueRay discs due to encryption( this STILL doenst make any sense if we have a BlueRay drive WITH the disc we cant play it, if we have a ripped copy it plays fine....) a media player program that can play any BlueRay disc from your drive would be my #1 until then it's still VLC
if you instal anydvdhd you can go to the final m2ts file in the stream on the disc (bdmv-stream-m2ts biggest file)and play it in most players (only 30 days free) or the free passkey lite but that free version is more for older titles and is slow in scanning the disc anydvdhd is quick or instal leawoo blu ray player free for playing the total disc
And MPC-BE has an option for a thumbnail preview in the timeline. In Options, under Player Interface, check the box labelled "Use the preview in the search".
used potplayer for many years, only 1 which will easily fix out of sync videos, vlc is dreadfully bland, also like jriver media center, which is a complete multimedia player for images also, not free but a true multimedia player is of most interest to me, don't think theres anything else quite like it, where you can access and display ALL your files in a visually appealing way
avr extention files i have a lot of them , media players often dont play them but smplayer and zoomplayer do gomplayer and potplayer too i believe i always think when a mediaplayer plays my avr files then they cover probably more rare types then the average player vlc seem to have a problem with avr files at least in windows 10 black screen while playing no image pitty because vlc also has a simple media library option that also reads in avr files maybe vlc is less picky on a linux ubuntu ii have to try that
tried musicbee but i wanted all the files in one simple library list video files and audiofiles both so that i have a list even when external drives are not connected so i use mediamonkey standard free version You can set in menu to playback the video files in the list to play on other external player (what you have set in windows as the fav standard mediaplayer for videos or in the properties of file) so in this case i play those video tracks automatic on zoomplayer also i like the sound quality of mediamonkey direct sound output mode nice effect
VLC have been betray me after I need to update it manually and it's become more glitchy and cannot even open my video properly without crashing over and over and over and over (it's still exist even after I restart my Laptop), but when I change to MPC-BE and MPC-HC it's can open all my video without any problem and the better news it's have portable version make it's super light and easy to adds at all my windows.
PotPlayer would be my number one but it darkens every video I play and makes them look orange, I have tried changing settings but it doesn't help, which is right now I use VLC or SM player
I got the vcl player I've always used it worked really well and then now I can't get it to work right I uninstalled it reinstalled it tried everything it when I go to play the videos like it almost acts like they're skipping but they're not they're not flickering.
