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    Best Reliable Player

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Granddaddy1, Sep 25, 2005.

  1. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guy's I'am needing to findout.Which media player system;is best to use?
    See,on my desktop.We've got windows media & quick time
    And when I try to watch a movie.Thats in one of my yahoo groups.It won't read it.As you know,most of the movies are in these forums: wmv / avi / mpeg
    I just want to make sure that my HP-Compaq Business Notebook(NX6110) Celeron M 360J 1.4GHz 256MB 40GB hard drive 15"TFT XGA(1024 x 768)Windows XP Home

    So,can anyone tell me;what's the best media player.To use on my laptop?I need one that'll play the movies.I try to look at.
    1.)Wmv 2.)Avi 3.)Mpeg formatted movies

    Thanks for your time & help! Clint :hp:
     
    Granddaddy1, Sep 25, 2005
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'd look at either the freeware Media Player Classic or Video LAN
     
    coriolis, Sep 25, 2005
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    Media Player Classic!
     
    Michael1980, Sep 25, 2005
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    turntable Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    turntable, Sep 25, 2005
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    bobfet1 Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    yea VLC media player is very good, it can play anything and doesnt have a bunch of crap skins and trinkets to bog your system down
     
    bobfet1, Sep 25, 2005
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    sakor1 Notebook Consultant

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    Yep, VideoLAN is great, plays everything and does it well.

    Stu
     
    sakor1, Sep 26, 2005
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    olyteddy Notebook Deity

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    I found BSPlayer to be able to handle a lot of formats, use little space and resources and has a 'desktop' mode. http://www.bsplayer.org/
     
    olyteddy, Sep 26, 2005
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  8. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Okay,my laptop is using the windows media player 10 right now
    I think ;how do I get my laptop to do default to bsplayer instead?
     
    Granddaddy1, Sep 27, 2005
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    Paloseco Notebook Evangelist

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    wmv format sucks and some windows videos are only playable with windows media player, bsplayer o others show it crappy :confused:
    Do not use wmv, use XviD instead, is more powerfull and has better support.
     
    Paloseco, Sep 27, 2005
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  10. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Okay,and thanks for letting me know;about that!!
     
    Granddaddy1, Sep 27, 2005
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