A little off topic but is there something better than VLC?

I suppose you are talking about video players:) Yes there is, I use Media Player Classic, which goes with Klite codec pack (also available standalone for download). Starts faster, looks nicer, is smaller, and is as advanced as VLC.

Not sure about better but media player classic home cinema is as good.

The image quality is not quite as good as in MPC Homecinema which I use with hardware acceleration enabled, although I read that the new Catalyst (10.7) and new VLC (1.1.1) have built in support for hardware acceleration as well, might give this a try (only Radeon 5000 family is supported).

The combined community codec pack has a built-in copy of media player classic, which is what I use.

VLC uses different codecs and occasionally will play a movie better than MPC (avoiding glitching etc.)

I throw anything with MPC home cinema with klite full if it encounter some problems subtitles/choppines, I switch to GOM and VLC which usually does the job.

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Originally Posted by dexter3d 

I suppose you are talking about video players:) Yes there is, I use Media Player Classic, which goes with Klite codec pack (also available standalone for download). Starts faster, looks nicer, is smaller, and is as advanced as VLC.

+1

I use Media Player Classic Home Theater which is the new and more upgraded version(I think the original project is dead).  I use CCCP Codec pack and on top of that I use Core Codec for GPU decoding of blu-ray content.

Some people use Re-Clocked for audio since it can use KS and WASAPI.  Personally for me it is a non factor with most video media files.

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Originally Posted by ninjikiran 

I use Media Player Classic Home Theater which is the new and more upgraded version(I think the original project is dead).  I use CCCP Codec pack and on top of that I use Core Codec for GPU decoding of blu-ray content.

 

Some people use Re-Clocked for audio since it can use KS and WASAPI.  Personally for me it is a non factor with most video media files.

Same here but what i use for my Hackintosh HTPC is XMBC which can eat anything you throw at it, as long you have the right codec and you know what you're doing

Better for doing what?
* Video playback -> Perhaps not.

* Audio playback -> Foobar2000.

As for doing both, I do not think there are.

KMPlayer is easily better than VLC for video, if you use big screen, post-processing video and adjustments are very useful to get a better image and it has build-in codecs too. There is also others like potplayer or zoom player etc...

VLC is great for its simplicity.

I used to use Media Player Classic Home Cinema with CoreAVC and AC3Filter. It did everything. But, I recently switched to Windows Media Player with CoreAVC and AC3Filter. Pretty much does the same thing except IMO the GUI is more minimal and elegant. Also, when playing movies non-full screen, MPC-HC cuts out the usable space with the progress bar. On Windows Media Player (12?) the progress bar and buttons are overlayed on the video and kind of auto-hide if you don't move your mouse. CoreAVC is pretty hard to beat, especially if you have a CUDA capable Nvidia card.

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Originally Posted by TheRH 

Hello,

 

I know this may be a little off topic, but is there something better than VLC for windows?

Absolutely, as far as video playback goes: http://www.cccp-project.net/

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