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

[TheRH]

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

 

[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.

 

[BlutoSlice]

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

 

[padam]

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).

 

[AtomikPi]

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.)

 

[sanakaku]

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.

 

[J.Pocalypse]

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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

 

[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.

 

[sanakaku]

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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

 

[krmathis]

Better for doing what?
* Video playback -> Perhaps not.
* Audio playback -> Foobar2000.
 
As for doing both, I do not think there are.

 

[Omega17TheTrue]

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.

 

[TheRH]

Better as in allows a side play like Windows Media Player (video), but without all the widows junk.

 

[_Spanky_]

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.

 

[dfkt]

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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/

 

[JulioCat2]

Potplayer