Media Player Alternatives
 

I'm looking for a good alternative to windows media player for MPEGs AVIs WMVs etc. any reccomendations?

Get the ACE Codec Pack with their Media Player Classic. It's basically their stripped down version of Windows Media Player 6.4 and it plays anything pratically. MPEGS, AVIs, WMVs, ASFs, ASXs, RMs, MOVs, etc.

Um, Tha Playa! That comes with DivX. Or, Winamp3.

Yeah, Media Player Classic. It's actually not by Microsoft, so you may need to do a little searching. It looks like WMP before the bloat-ness of versions 7 and up, and plays all of the most recent codecs without issue. It's tiny and clean and fast and I can't recommend it enough.

I use the older winamp version (2.8 i think) with a plugin called Nice-MC, it's great, plays all video codecs that i have ... great for queueing up music videos:D

real player can come close.

quicktime can handle some of the formats.

I usually just use Winamp 3 or Jukebox

I use Irfanview...with all of it's plugins, and it is free.

here is the link for ACE codec pack http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/11...1-2-7-10.shtml 50 mb d/l though

if you are having problems with windows media player, you can type "mplayer2" into your run command and load up the old version. I've noticed that it plays some movie files (read: poorly encoded pr0n) better than the current version of WMP.

I also highly recommend the kazaa-lite codec pack. I used to have my own codec pack that I created over years of trying to view pr0n encoded into weird formats, and the kazaa-lite codec pack is much better, plus its installer lets you choose what to install.

www.kazaalite.tk

http://kazaalitekpp.com/ lists a bunch of media playing alternatives. You don't need Kazaa installed to use them. I'd give a direct link, but the site blocks it. Click on the "other downloads" link on the left-hand side.

I use BSPLayer, it's included in the ACE Codec Pack

You could try Jet audio - It plays audio and video formats and you can also use it to broadcast your own radio station. Check it out at http://www.jetaudio.com/

I do use WinDVD in place of the Windows MediaPlayer.
And listen to CD's with WinAmp 3.