video player that will play everything?

SGWills · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:25

i currently use XBMC,VLC and WMP as my playback of choice however there are MP4 and some AVI theses players wont play :S anyone got any alternatives to try ?

Zefan · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:31

I remember when BSPlayer was all the rage. Loved it. No idea if it's any good now though, doubt it

Rroff · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:34

Been using media player classic (homecinema) with k-lite codec pack (lots of stuff option) and it plays pretty much everything.

marc2003 · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:34

try media player classic - home cinema

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

although i hate VLC, i'm kind of surprised you have files it can't play...

SGWills · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:39

thats what i dont get, its playing files of the same type recorded on the same device, i dont believe the files are corrupted, shall try and find out

lcg · 31 Jul 2011 at 01:39

MPC-HC.

monkeyspank · 31 Jul 2011 at 09:47

kmplayer is very good too, but mpc-hc is the obvious choice

Number_25 · 31 Jul 2011 at 09:51

VLC plays everything I throw at it.

THE PREDATOR · 31 Jul 2011 at 10:09

I'd vouch for VLC but if it doesn't play what you need then look for some codec packs to add on

BigBoy · 31 Jul 2011 at 10:14

Wmp and shark007's codec pack job done not found anything it cannot play.

dave-lew99 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:00

The usual suspects of XBMC and VLC usually play everything.

However, if i get really stuck the best thing i have found is the command line mplayer - it has never failed me, including playing ES streams which everything else fails at, it also gives lots of diagnostics output so you can find out why your files won't play in a normal player.

Simian · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:07

BigBoy said:
Wmp and shark007's codec pack job done not found anything it cannot play.

Yup!!

Paul11 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:08

Number_25 said:
VLC plays everything I throw at it.

+1

Randomface74 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:12

MPC-HC and VLC play everything.

I prefer the interface of MPC-HC.

james.miller · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:14

what on earth are you trying to play thats so obscurely encoded that even vlc wont play it? are you sure they arent just corrupted or something?

Randomface74 · 31 Jul 2011 at 11:16

*cough* gay porn *cough*

SGWills · 31 Jul 2011 at 12:53

billysielu said:
*cough* gay porn *cough*

Billy you said you wouldnt say anything if i kept your face out of the video

Sin_Chase · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:00

VLC.

Anything which requires me to install 128918291829182 codecs to "play everything" can GTFO. I've not found anything it cannot play yet, you can even chuck some compressed archives at it and it will play. If it cannot play what you are trying to play then there is something else wrong.

pgi947 · 31 Jul 2011 at 14:42

Hardly if you want the codec route you don't need many and any media player should play what ever you like. I'm not a massive fan of VLC as I do some video editing so I need the codecs there in the first place.

FFdshow
AC3Filter
Matrakosa splitter (haalis)
CoreAVC (not free, good if your encoding otherwise stick with ffdshow's 264 support)

And thats about it as far as what codecs are needed.

I agree with james.miller, if something like VLC wont play it i'd bet its either a bad encode or a corrupt container, try demux and remux to another container, see if it works.

masterluke · 31 Jul 2011 at 15:44

THE PREDATOR said:
I'd vouch for VLC but if it doesn't play what you need then look for some codec packs to add on

I believe VLC uses its own internal codecs so adding codec packs and expecting VLC to use them won't work.

Agree with the above. VLC should play pretty much everything and its likely the file is broken if it doesn't.