Alternative to VLC?

Van Hellseek · 4 Oct 2009 at 19:58

Looking for a lightweight video player which doesnt require codec packs to be installed, such as VLC media player.

Any suggestions?

theheyes · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:00

I don't use it myself put a lot of people like Media Player Classic.

Blackbadger · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:03

KMPlayer - comes highly recommended

snowdog · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:04

theheyes said:
I don't use it myself put a lot of people like Media Player Classic.

Doesn't this also require a codec pack ?

Gecco · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:07

MPlayer

masterluke · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:11

snowdog said:
Doesn't this also require a codec pack ?

not sure about the original MPC, but i know MPC homecinema comes with codecs built in based on ffmpeg so can do pretty much everything up to and including h264. Can even handle DXVA gpu acceleration.

Its pretty much the mutts nuts

Can also recommend KMPlayer - the built in codecs are also ffmpeg, but i prefer the lightweight GUI from MPC myself.

1337z0r · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:27

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is all you need

ricky200 · 4 Oct 2009 at 21:04

seek said:
Looking for a lightweight video player which doesnt require codec packs to be installed, such as VLC media player.

Any suggestions?

For HD videos I prefer Splash Lite.
Doesnt support subtitles in MKV yet, but looks good, uses dxva and works really fast. I find it better than MPC-HC on my PCs.

For SD videos I keep using mpc-hc.