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Video player: What's the quickest (fastest/lightest)?
superboyac:
Hmmm...I like Splayer, but I wish it was a little more configurable. It has one of the strangest preference dialogs ever.
Shades:
Have you tried 'ALShow' already?
My system has never seen an installation screen of any codec pack, but this one seems to be able to play some of the "grown-up" content that I have without problems, while The KMplayer, VLC and MPC crash miserably playing those files.
They have more high quality freeware on that site besides the ALShow player.
JavaJones:
Lanux, BSPlayer used to be my favorite player, maybe 5 years back. But it turned into adware/crapware and (I think) payware, and now it's back in development but still struggling. I wouldn't recommend it, especially not with all the other great free options out there.
Steeladept: Your reasoning for VLC makes perfect sense, and now I totally understand. I've never been a portable apps nut so that need never came up for me, but I suppose your perspective on good software can totally shift if portability is a requirement!
Superboyac: What do you want to configure in Splayer that you can't do?
Shades: I tried ALShow ages ago, it was ok but didn't best KMPlayer at the time. I'm frankly quite surprised that it can handle things KMPlayer, VLC, and MPC all choke on. What format and compression codec(s)?
- Oshyan
Tuxman:
Hm, mplayer.
For those who need "a bit" of GUI flavor: MPC-HC with ffdshow filters.
VLC's codecs are not made for playing local files.
superboyac:
Superboyac: What do you want to configure in Splayer that you can't do?
-JavaJones (December 08, 2009, 12:54 PM)
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Mouse button customization. Most of these programs have options to assign functions to left-mouse, right-mouse buttons. Also, program double-click function, etc.
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