NEW MEDIA PLAYER?

bcfcciderhead · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:48

Hi, dont know if this is the right place for this but here goes........i got windows 7 ultimate and not that fussed on the media play, it works fine but just looks pants for such a good OS i liked media 10(i think or 11) i had on XP, so my question is this, is there another media play which looks better?

Peace · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:57

Splash Player is what I am running on my media PC, looks good and plays all my files without the need of extra codecs.

bcfcciderhead · 9 Jul 2010 at 20:11

been looking at other threads and media monkey seems the way, downloaded it but i cant get it to find all the music

Greenlizard0 · 9 Jul 2010 at 20:25

Another player that looks better? You could just get a decent one, and then skin it afterwards.

For video files I use VLC and MPC HC with FFDshow, and audio I use Winamp. Foobar as far as I know is just as skinnable.

whitecrook · 9 Jul 2010 at 20:28

Some people say VLC looks rubbish and for image quality Media Player Classic is for the win.

Does anyone have any pictures of this, as I have never really seen any difference

AbsenceJam · 9 Jul 2010 at 21:12

MPC-HC dailies - http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-classic-home-cinema-x86-x64/ .

whitecrook said:
Some people say VLC looks rubbish and for image quality Media Player Classic is for the win.

Does anyone have any pictures of this, as I have never really seen any difference

I don't thin anyone says it looks rubbish, and if you use the overlay renderer in MPC it'll look the same. MPC does let you have to choice of other renderers however, and these can look better and have more colour accuracy. And it's just a much better player in general, much more functional configuration and better splitters/filters.

-=Vect0r=- · 9 Jul 2010 at 23:57

Take a peek at SPlayer. Does a cracking job for me.

Assassin_012 · 10 Jul 2010 at 01:56

for looks...id say winamp and foobar.....just tried splayer....looks nice...good interface.

pooley · 10 Jul 2010 at 08:52

have a look at km player it plays most formats and has custom skins too.

craptakular · 10 Jul 2010 at 17:11

I highly recommend kmplayer or smplayer

GhostlyPea · 10 Jul 2010 at 17:18

I use VLC and Winamp. never had a need for anything else

- Pea0n

Dave85 · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:19

Take it theres not anyway to run vistas media player on win7?

Edit. Found this going to try it soon.

http://www.blogsdna.com/2409/downgrade-windows-media-player-12-to-wmp-11-on-windows-7.htm

bledd · 10 Jul 2010 at 18:40

AbsenceJam said:
MPC-HC dailies - http://www.xvidvideo.ru/media-player-classic-home-cinema-x86-x64/ .

I don't thin anyone says it looks rubbish, and if you use the overlay renderer in MPC it'll look the same. MPC does let you have to choice of other renderers however, and these can look better and have more colour accuracy. And it's just a much better player in general, much more functional configuration and better splitters/filters.

This is what I use

Sleek and small

Dave85 · 10 Jul 2010 at 19:52

I now have the epicness that is media player 11 on windows 7.

So much better

craptakular · 10 Jul 2010 at 20:42

DAvE18 said:
I now have the epicness that is media player 11 on windows 7.

So much better

GET OUT

ricky200 · 12 Jul 2010 at 14:26

bledd. said:
This is what I use

Sleek and small

sleek? it looks cheap and so 90s.
good looking player is splash (pro version with smartseek) and older windvd.

Aod · 12 Jul 2010 at 15:53

ricky200 said:
sleek? it looks cheap and so 90s.
good looking player is splash (pro version with smartseek) and older windvd.

no, it looks like nothing. when running, press "1" and the interface disappears alltogether.

MPC:HC is without a shadow of a doubt, the best video player program on the internet, both free and paid-for.

AbsenceJam · 12 Jul 2010 at 17:20

ricky200 said:
sleek? it looks cheap and so 90s.
good looking player is splash (pro version with smartseek) and older windvd.

All you do is advertise this software here......