Best Video Player?

My apologies if this questioned is asked a lot.. But I also have a few questions to ask...

Right now, I have VLC leading in the various video players found everywhere, but what would be better? A new video player (VLC) or just a bunch of codecs? (CCCP, K-Lite Codecs, don't even know what is good between those)? Right now, I just want the most "franca lingua" (Is that the right term to use?) video player out there, whether it be VLC player, or a super mega codex pack that will play everything.

I know this is probably a lot to ask, but I would at least like to be steered in the right direction. Thank you all!
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not sure what you asking? VLC is a bunch of codec, how to you compare a bunch of codec versus a bunch of codec?
It either play it or it doesnt.

 

I use Media Player Classic Home Cinema combined with LAV filters, Haali Splitter, and MadVR renderer. Plays anything, including that new 10bit x264 format that people seems to becoming more popular. Also seems to be the best quality.

If you don't need all those fancy options, MPC-HC all by itself without extra codec packs works very well.

 

Hmm, MPC has crossed my mind. I have thought nothing of it though. I will try it out though, am I able to play Blu-Ray?

And Baii, my apologies if it seems confusing, but I'm merely asking for the best one.
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I would say go with WinDVD Pro 11 for DVD/BD media playback. As for other extensions you will have to see which codec will work with your system.

 

I use that whenever VLC has problems. For a while, for some reason, VLC wouldn't play .mkv's for me. But now that seems to have blown over, and I don't ever have the need for MPC.

 

Hmm, I may be a bit ignorant on this subject, but can I not play from discs using these media players? I don't intend on playing movies digitally.

A reason I am leaning with VLC, I hear it can play anything.
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If you ever try KMPlayer you will never go elsewhere. I use it for 4 years already and since te beginning I liked that he "eats all", you can install just player without any other codec packs, It may increase quality of low resolution video (aWarsharp), has post-processing, audio normalize and trully nice skins like SPLASH. And also it works pretty fast even on old machines (at least old versions for sure).

Last release (3.2) supports 10 bit h264, 3D and other.
Also some people create repacks with CUDA profiles, HAAI splitters (for I-core CPUs) and other. but player itself is great. Just don't forget to use that skin.

 

Now that is odd...I never hard problem playing BD or DVD movies on my BD burner in my desktop. And if you can't play them on your hardware that could be hardware problem related and not software?? If WinDVD Pro 11 with a BD-R drive can't play a BD movie that could be something wrong with the drive itself if the BD movies is working and nothing wrong with the movie itself and the WinDVD pro install without any glitch.

It does this feature quite good and even with bad broken video it will try to play it. I would advise against it to use it to watch bad broken movie though.
I have like a codec that I used for my WMP12 and have WinDVD Pro 11 and VLC with VLC as backup and WinDVD my main DVD/BD movie player. I use WMP12 with codec to play other extensions that I don't use my WinDVD software for. I came to this conclusion after using various codecs and media player to find one that would work and fit my needs.

 

Hmm, I do have a Blu-Ray player, I just thought you still need a video player capable of Blu-Ray to get it to run.

As far as video players, I want to limit as many resource intensive stuff and really be space sensitive on my laptop.
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Oh yes, you do need the software like WinDVD Pro 11 that plays BD movies to make it work and the GPU must have the ability to decode BD media movies to run as well. Unless your O/S has a BD player software already then you won't be in need of software like WinDVD Pro 11 to play BD movies media. WMP12 might play BD but I not sure I have to check if it does but from what I know WMP 12 has limited options and doesn't have a good interface when playing DVD movies.

 

I see. Man I'm stupid. I always thought that codecs were what was required in order to play Blu-Ray discs... So what do you all think? I'm planning on MPC and all it's codecs, and probably look for a Windows Media Player update to be able to play Blu-Ray

 

For BR playback Splash Media Player is best of all followed by Kmplayer.

 

VLC has an amazing ability to play a VERY wide range of file types, without the need for external codecs or decoders etc, MPC on the other hand is best suited to more advanced users that install a plethora of codecs and such like form the mega codec packs that come with MPC bundled, trouble is if you start hitting codec clashes you could be going around in circles trying to fix it.

BR playback is not something i have had to worry about until now, so your replies regarding that are inderesting for me.