SPlayer

[Makhaira]

Well I've been a very happy guy with VLC for many years - no need for codecs, minimal interface, generally versatile.

Lately though I've been getting a bit annoyed by poor colour reproduction on it with some DVDs, especially relating to black levels, whereas WMP was fine (but WMP is a nasty piece of software for non-full screen playing).

Soooo, long story short, I've just discovered SPlayer.

http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

It's got all the usual ramble about how wonderful it is, with auto colour correction, format support, etc etc etc, but I have to say that so far it seems to have lived up to the hype for me. So, has anyone else dabbled with this program? Thoughts?

 

[masterluke]

not used it - but i just checked out the website and the front page ghows it playing a file called something.2007.e01.1080p.bluray.dts.x264.ctrlhd
Thats clearly a pirated file and not a very professional way to introduce your product!!

 

[Macky]

not used it - but i just checked out the website and the front page ghows it playing a file called something.2007.e01.1080p.bluray.dts.x264.ctrlhd
Thats clearly a pirated file and not a very professional way to introduce your product!!

I thought the same but the software doesn't look too shabby. Probably won't try it out however.

 

[2-step]

I downloaded this and watched some HD content with it, as i am very impressed with it compared to VLC

 

[Matteysan]

Doesn't bode very well when the site has

502 Bad Gateway

nginx

I'll stick to VLC me thinks.

 

[mrk]

MPC-HC is better than Splayer and VLC but if you /need/ Network streaming etc then obviously VLC but as a local media player MPC is the best.

Oh VLC doesn't do hardware decoding either IIRC, only software via its internal decoders. MPC will use DXVA so your CPU will be tax free.