Best Media Player for H.264 and DivX/Xvid

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PESolution

PESolution

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Hi all,
I have always used Media Player Classic to play my videos (mainly H.264 and DivX) and WinAmp to play my mp3's.

Do you guys have any suggestions on better players (i dont mind buying a license for a decent program so money no object) as I fancy a change. Or am i currently using pretty much the best?

I dont necesarrily want a thousand options, i just want the best possible playback for quality and sound.

I guess i could do with the suggestions on the best H264 drivers and MP3 drivers aswell: i currently use KLiteCodecPack Full (latest beta version)


Thanks in advance
 
VLC is terrible as a media player. It's good to play akward files and for streaming. The new version is a lot better but still not as good as most. Media player 11 with ffdshow is all I use
 
KMPlayer+CoreAVC+FFDShow+AC3Filter

VLC is great at just making things play, but quality isnt great and options are poor.

KMPlayer is incredibly customisable, CoreAVC not 100% necessary but it plays back 264 VERY well, FFDShow for upscaling SD content nicely. AC3 Filter for bitstreaming DTS/DD, fiddling with channel boosts if you need it, speech for instance can get lost amongst noise in action films, you can tweak this.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
What's wrong with VLC player quality? Other than the standard play and pause options what else do you need?
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Its not as good as FFDShow? When your playing things on a 9' Projector screen you tend to notice ;).

The x264 is particularly soft, and not great at seeking for that matter.

Options wise, I want proper control over everything in the picture. Blur, Noise Reduction, Interlacing, Levels control especially. Same for audio, although most is done on my amp, its nice to be able to tweak particularly dialogue because i'm without a centre speaker at the moment.
 
Chris1712 said:
Its not as good as FFDShow? When your playing things on a 9' Projector screen you tend to notice ;).

The x264 is particularly soft, and not great at seeking for that matter.

Options wise, I want proper control over everything in the picture. Blur, Noise Reduction, Interlacing, Levels control especially. Same for audio, although most is done on my amp, its nice to be able to tweak particularly dialogue because i'm without a centre speaker at the moment.
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everything he said !!!
kmplayer is one of the best imo, not tried on projector :( but do run thro 32" tv and everythings crystal, same run audio through amp and i do have centre speaker hehe
 
Here we go.

XVID of Empire.

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FFDShow with clever stuff working.
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Once its upscaled with FFDShow aswell, it actually makes xvids just about watchable on my big screen.
 
Chris1712 said:
Here we go.

XVID of Empire.

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FFDShow with clever stuff working.
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Once its upscaled with FFDShow aswell, it actually makes xvids just about watchable on my big screen.
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Such a big difference even on those small screens.

Going to have to stop using VLC and try KMPlayer out.
 
Chris1712 said:
Its not as good as FFDShow? When your playing things on a 9' Projector screen you tend to notice ;).

The x264 is particularly soft, and not great at seeking for that matter.

Options wise, I want proper control over everything in the picture. Blur, Noise Reduction, Interlacing, Levels control especially. Same for audio, although most is done on my amp, its nice to be able to tweak particularly dialogue because i'm without a centre speaker at the moment.
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OMG! You're fussy aren't you? :p

I watch my .avi files on a Acer AL2023W. All I want to do is play and pause if I need to make a cup of tea ;)

Different strokes for different folks I guess ;)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
OMG! You're fussy aren't you? :p

I watch my .avi files on a Acer AL2023W. All I want to do is play and pause if I need to make a cup of tea ;)

Different strokes for different folks I guess ;)
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I am very fussy lol. By all means for probably 80% of users VLC is great, it just works. I to swore by it until i got my projector. FFDShow etc. just allow you to get the most out your sources, and thats what you need on anything bigger than a PC Monitor.

My fussiness annoys a lot of people lol, even if someone is watching something in the wrong aspect ratio it does my nut in, all the people are squashed man how can you watch that!
 
@Chris1712, how do you get the "clever stuff"?

Personally I ditched VLC, Windows Media Player 11 is being used now, it was a lot smoother than VLC, which was skipping frames and not so good.

Songbird for music.


EDIT: Oh, I'm using CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) and it seems great whilst not too bulky.
 
Chris1712 said:
I am very fussy lol. By all means for probably 80% of users VLC is great, it just works. I to swore by it until i got my projector. FFDShow etc. just allow you to get the most out your sources, and thats what you need on anything bigger than a PC Monitor.

My fussiness annoys a lot of people lol, even if someone is watching something in the wrong aspect ratio it does my nut in, all the people are squashed man how can you watch that!
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Wow those screenshots look amazing! What settings do you use for FFDShow? Really not "up" on media players that much and just use whatever one plays the file! :p
 
Thanks for all the replies guys! I love a good heated debate! I use FFDshow codecs in my Media Player classic, so i would imagine that the "clever stuff" is done there..
 
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