I'm sick of how it slows down every other application on my P4 whenever I have it running. :mad:

I've thought of getting RealPlusOne, is that any good?

I've also gotten DivX Alpha, the problem is that you can only play certain stuff on it.

I've also got Quicktime 6 but it's limited in what it can play as well, and the interface is really cumbersome.

What other video/movie players do you guys use which you've found really good, lots of features, etc?

<font color="00cc99">Yeah media player can be a bit of a ram eater at times. Aparently you can use winamp3 to play movies, or you could dl a free player like I did. I use one called 'The playa' although it's pretty basic.</font>

[ 02-02-2003, 02:11 AM: Message edited by: Deathbringer ]

Download BSplayer (just do a search under google)..
Its free and very good [img]smile.gif[/img]

I sometimes use ASUSDVD 2000 or PowerVCD to watch movies. it's good.

The Windows Media Player that I have works fine, no slowdown at all. I'm on a P3 733mhz and have no problems.

Winamp 3 does play movies, but it doesn't have many features at all.

Real Player, IMO, is terrible. It always freezes when i click on a movie. The only way I can watch movies without it freezing is if I click on the RP icon and go to open! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

As Dreamer saud, use BSplayer for divx encoded movies. I also use mv2player which handles a lot of different codecs. [img]smile.gif[/img] Both are available at www.download.com

What about non-DivX encoded stuff? Any good players out there that will play these?

[ 02-02-2003, 06:49 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]

Try MV2player Memsy. It plays every codec installed on the computer. It´s way better than wmp. [img]smile.gif[/img] Then there´s Nplayer. I used that one before I got MV2player. It´s good but it has some problems with decoding.

I second the notion for using BSPlayer. It can play almost anything Memnoch. Not just Divx stuff. You just need to install the correct codecs. What you need to do is download the full version of the Tsunami Filter pack http://www.divx-digest.com/software/tsunami_pack.html and then you will have pretty much EVERY codec you ever need and then BSPlayer will be able to play almost any movie format you can throw at it (in my experience although of course I haven't tried every file format). http://www.bsplayer.org/ You can play normal and divx AVIs as well as MPGs, video CD DATs, ASF, WMV and a couple of other obscure formats. The exception I have seen so far is the QuickTime .MOV format but who needs that anyway?

[ 02-02-2003, 09:01 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

Winamp3, and PowerDVD handle most of my movie playing needs (mostly winamp3). PowerDVD is a pay product, but very very good - gives marginally better results viewing most movies.

BSPlayer is quite good as well, but I've never really had a need to use it.

I think there's a good chance you'll get a free copy of PowerDVD when you buy a DVD-ROM; happened with me. [img]smile.gif[/img] And on the other hand, Winamp3 has been nothing but trouble so far, so I actually switched back to good old Winamp 2.8 and merely stick to music with that one again.

well wmp doesn't seem to slow down my comp. but then i have lots of ram. Have you tryed installing wmp version 9 yeat? it takes up less resources i think.

It also reports everything you do to microsoft. :D

Exactly, anyone who uses WMP 9 is either a fool or doesn't give a damn about their privacy; the only sensible way to use it is to block it's net access with a THIRD PARTY firewall.

I use the RealOne Player... Plays almost all movies and has good features.

http://www.real.com/R/RC.010903r1cp_...e/realone.html

Exactly, anyone who uses WMP 9 is either a fool or doesn't give a damn about their privacy; the only sensible way to use it is to block it's net access with a THIRD PARTY firewall.</font>[/QUOTE]Well, then get a firewall... knowing what goes in and out of your ports is quite a sensible thing to do, WMP9 or not. The con is that it takes up resources on slower machines, but it's definitely worth it.
Screw the one from XP, it only makes trouble (and I guess it's a bit prejudiced against Microsoft products).

I use REal Player for my playing needs - the only con is that it doesn't play asf and wmv files. For those I use winamp3, which is a bit slow and poor for my taste. Remember though, what you can and cannot play is determined by the codecs you have installed... i suggest a good all-round codec installer (power users only)
http://www.geocities.com/nimocodec/

Edit: one other reason why you shouldn't use windows media player (any version) is that you cannot delete history without editing registry...

[ 02-04-2003, 01:23 PM: Message edited by: B_part ]

B_part, the download link doesn't work. I get an error message from the hosting site (not geocities) in a foreign language. My guess is, the site has been removed.

B_part : I KNOW, I'm not the one at a loss here [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just though of another good reason to use BSPlayer if u still listening Mem. It has the best subtitle support out of all the programs I've tried and I've tried at least 6 or 7. Most subtitle formats etc.

Vaskez, maybe you can help me. How do I get BSplayer to play all the codecs I´ve installed on mycomputer? It will only play movies encoded by div3-5 and mp42. It won´t play my movies encoded encoded with the original divx codec (and I´m too lazy to remake them). And it won´t support Xvid or CanopecDV either. :(

Oh and Vaskez, get yourself a firewall! *giggles* :D

Have you found a player you like yet Mario Timberflake? [img]tongue.gif[/img]