Best videoplayer?

PJH

What's the best player for Windows out there to watch videos? One that could play pretty much everything and has all the codecs you will ever need. I've had enough of these crappy players I currently have. Always giving me can't play this can't play that... no codec available.... blah blah.... grrr....

- PJH

Biggles

I use [url=http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml]Zoom Player[/url]. It's easily the best player I've seen for windows. It's a directshow-based player, which means if a codec is on your system it can use it. The only thing I don't watch in it is DVDs.

PJH

Thanks Big L's. I'll try that out. :)

- PJH

PJH

Oh yeah... where could I get conviniently all the codecs I need without downloading and installing all of them separately? :)

- PJH

PJH

Ahh.... looks like it has the most common ones already included.

- PJH

Phi

For some reason my ZoomPlayer won't play divx right :( It also has a hissy fit over .mov, but I'm fine with quicktime for that.

-Φ

Biggles

PJH: I generally just grab them as I need them, and over time I accumulate all the ones I need.

Phi: Try reinstalling the codec in question. Usually its the codec causing the problem, not zoom player.

A2597

I really like BSPlayer :)

C_Mon

I like Media Player Classic. :)

Vertigo1

Media Player Classic or PowerDVD 5. Take your pick. :)

E.T

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]PJH: I generally just grab them as I need them, and over time I accumulate all the ones I need.[/B][/QUOTE]Yeah.
If some video doesn't work just use GSpot to detect codec it needs and then search in Google using codec's 4CC name.
[url]http://www.headbands.com/gspot/[/url]

Rhett

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
[B]Yeah.
If some video doesn't work just use GSpot to detect codec it needs and then search in Google using codec's 4CC name.
[url]http://www.headbands.com/gspot/[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]

Very cool little utility, I like it :)