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- debian_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It will take moutains of crisp 20 dollar bills to get me to change from Media Player Classic to something new/else. Quick, small, has all the features that I need.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1foobar is for geeks.
What? It's the truth! - termal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On Windows: musikCube...organizes similar to iTunes, but super fast and lightweight. People in love with skins need not apply. Quintessential is my favorite Winamp style player, which I use to play individual audio files I happen to download. I like Foobar too, but haven't taken the time to fiddle with it extensively.
For video, media player classic w/real and qt alternative, BSplayer, PowerDVD. VLC if nothing else works.
On Linux, Quod Libet for music, Totem/xine or VLC for video. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Audio: amaroK, simply the best.
# Quick and simple drag and drop playlist creation
# Super eye-candy interface
# Multiple backends supported (GStreamer, xine, NMM, MAS and aRts)
# 10 band equalizer
# Automatic cover art download using Amazon services
# The unique and powerful Context Browser
# Automatic play-statistics generation (iRate style)
# Full lyrics download
# Funky visualisations from libvisual and XMMS
# Streaming from any KIO source
# Crossfading
# Podcasting Support
# Fully configurable translucent OSD for track changes
# K3B (CD-burning) integration
# KDE integration
# Style your Context Browser with custom CSS styles
# Save space in your Context Browser with collapsable boxes
# Show the Context Browser without amaroK open through the Konqueror sidebar!
# Full support for Audioscrobbler! Share your music taste with friends on the net
# Generate dynamic playlists based on Audioscrobbler suggestions
# Support for SQLite and MySQL databases ensuring fast collection access
# Support for your iPod with the all new media-browser
# Powerful scripting interface, allowing for easy extension of amaroK
# Complete DCOP access
# Translated into more then 35 languages, thanks to the KDE internationalization team.
Video: mplayer
Supported Video and Audio Codecs
most important video codecs:
* MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
* MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
* Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2)
* Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL)
* RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2)
* RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries)
* Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs
* DV video
* 3ivx
* Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2)
* Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs)
* VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL)
* MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
* FLI/FLC
* HuffYUV
* various old simple RLE-like formats
most important audio codecs:
* MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio
* AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF)
* AAC (MPEG-4 audio)
* WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2
* WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs)
* RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries)
* RealAudio: DNET and older codecs
* QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC
* Ogg Vorbis audio
* VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL)
* alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats - Scott_T, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Media Player Classic with the K-Lite Codec Pack and Ffdshow filter for video. No crap, simple interface and plays it all. It even does quicktime and realmedia stuff.
- Quest-Master, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1foobar2k is best for music, hands down. You CAN Wine it in Linux.. but Quod Libet is just about good.
VLC is the best for video playback as well. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*****, start writing at once and then come back later to finish it's not a good idea, look at all those repetition and despicable mistakes I made..... isn't there a "modify comment" function? Am I blind or what?
- anjori, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kaffeine and XMMS
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who said anything pro/anti Microsoft?
Not me, and as far as I scrolled through the comments nobody else did.
Mine comment was merely pointing out what were in my opinion the best player &&&****anywhere, for any OS, platform****&&&&. It is true that mplayer uses the ffmpeg (libavcodec), but the way it's implemented and all the advanced functions make it better than xine, vlc, wmplayer, xmms, though I do recognize it's not yet perfect.
As for amaroK, the amazing improvements and functions are so many that eclipse that eclipse the few negative aspects. - bob12321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0olny iTunes for My iPod and I
(thats proper english right?) - Ridernyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they left out some of the best audio players.
- masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@sockeatingdryer:
We care that it's a Wikipedia article because then it's not NEWS and because you can easily search Wikipedia yourself easily.
The point of Digg isn't to point out things you wouldn't have found, but rather to share technology news.
And the creators made us the Digg Police. All of us. - billflu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Media Player Classic here.
- mlingojones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a Wikipedia article... it's probably been there for months or years. You don't see Slashdot linking to Wikipedia articles because it's not news.
digg is a site for news, not for random links. - spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No digg for wiki links.
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VLC is good for the most part, althrough it doesnt read the colours or font faces from .ssa files and doesnt do Real Media. Thats where Media Player Classic comes in handy.
- antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>A lot of players are missing from that list.
its wikipedia, use your brain, add your favourite for other ppl instead of complaining :D - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"4v4l0n42, as far as mplayer, vlc, xine (I think), and a few other players go, aren't they all using FFMpeg? Not sure how important the file format argument is when comparing video players. Features are what it comes down to, and that is purely subjective."
Yes many open source players are based on FFMpeg and thus play the same formats really. Even in Zoom Player I use FFDShow which is a Direct Show port of FFMpeg. I use all the Gabest codecs as well so It supports anything Media Player Classic supports (Mostly I care about it's subtitle thing). The format support argument is really rather null and it mostly comes down to personal preference, intended use of the player, and the features supported. - J_Omega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I second the vote for amaroK for audio.
I'm a longtime foobar user, and there are aspects of it missing from amaroK though. Most noteably the tagging in foobar is superior.
foobar also has many more "power-user" audio options, which would be nice to see scripts made for for amaroK.
Regardless, amaroK >> XMMS. (I'm a Gnome user and use amaroK!)
for non-*nixers, check out the amaroK liveCD to try it out. There's some OK freebie music included with it too! - sych0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0media player classic RULES. I use it for all video. And all you chumps using real player for real content, search google for real alternative. (or is it alternate?) It lets you play real content via media player classic, and because of this, i actually prefer real media in some situations. I use winamp still, though newer versions are sucking :( I'd like to find a winamp replacement. If media player classic had a windowshade mode itd be perfect. As for music library, i use itunes because i have an ipod. Its kind of bloated and takes long to load, but once its up and running i love it
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+04v4l0n42, as far as mplayer, vlc, xine (I think), and a few other players go, aren't they all using FFMpeg? Not sure how important the file format argument is when comparing video players. Features are what it comes down to, and that is purely subjective.
- Maajid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't get away from Winamp.
- quackdoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 4v4l0n42.My vote to this comment. Amarok rocks.
Though a word of advice for the newbies in Linux. Get the rpms from the KDE website itself.
Video player- M player. Kaffeine is the best. - TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wait, iTunes can play DVD-Audio? Does it also rip?
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I never complained. I am well aware I can add them myself and in fact I am going too. But that does not change the fact that at this moment in time they are not (yet) on the list so I had to bring them up myself here on Digg for the time being.
- mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeh, I just don't see wikilinks being diggworthy...
Download whatever you need, some media files might play on something but not another so you might as well. Personally for me though, iTunes is too slow and a memory drainer so I like winamp (especially now with it's Library). VLC and Media Player Classic are about equal. MPC replaces annoying Real and VLC plays most of what you drag in to. - antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0marok is cool but i gotta install all the kde-libs :(
i'll stick with xmms for audio and xine(gxine) for video :)
btw, whats the point buying binary only windows only music/video only playing apps...
mocp(moc) for console audio enjoyment! :D - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MPC here, and Winamp / foobar. In change over progress atm.
BTW.. i reckon DIGG is cool. But the comments are vile and evil and retarded!
Its like Ghostbusters 2 i think, all the 'dupe', 'whinging' and dumb comments are making an evil river of pink goo under the cities across the world. I could be onto something? I'd make it a story and submitt it, but it'd either get shot down with more whinging comments (more goo) or it'd make the front page, and the curse would be broken. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The content is not the medium, which is not the messenger.
Who cares if it's a Wikipedia article? Many people wouldn't have found it otherwise, and it's good content. Who made you Digg police anyway?
Man up, Nancy. - jturner12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is there a way to change files names based on ID3 tags in Winamp?
- maudib, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg isn't for news, its for interesting websites. Who cares what slashdot does ?, i love slashdot but its a completely different site, they don't need to be compared and shouldn't be. BTW its obvious where all the maturity is, /. hasn't mentioned digg AFAIK, whereas everyother day some clown on digg is talking crap about how digg is gonna /.
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bling Pow. Media Player Classic is the shizzle. gotta roll with real alternative and qt alternative. nothing beats the simple all ways working media player classic.
- motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Winamp
Media Player Classic (with Quicktime and Real Player plugins)
Nothing else is necessary. - ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a very simple solution:
VLC!!! - twistymcgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The poster really needs to learn about something called bias.
"Which Media Player Is Right For You?" followed by "...and get away from that wmp!!!"
So it would seem that the poster is deciding wmp is wrong for me instead of letting me decide. - KlipschFan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dBpowerAMP Audio Player is missing from the list. Why?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Media Player Classic and Video Lan Client
Between those two I have no need for ANY other players, I may have quicktime and such installed, but only to have the codecs installed to let these two players play them instead of the "real" clients. - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For those who are Anti-Microsoft, Windows Media Player is hands down the best media player against iTunes, Realplayer and Quicktime. I used all of those and Winamp, which is also great. WMP does pretty much everything, and because it was designed for Windows, it performs better than *cough* iTunes, QuickTime *cough*. Realplayer is just way too slow, and if you think WMP is slow, then chances are you have a rubbish computer. Winamp is a great little media player, it is extremely light on system resources, but it doesn't have the features that go with WMP. I use this occasionally when I want to listen to music while running programs that take up lots of RAM. Bottom line, WMP is lighter on system resources than iTunes, QuickTime and Realplayer, but Winamp is the ultimate little media player.
- complexigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0foobar2000 FTW.
- AltOpt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VLC. The Windows version even comes in a .zip file, and doesn’t need an installer. Bonus. Can watch movies at work.
On the Mac: VLC, followed by Windows Media Player 9. RealPlayer for .rm files. Maybe QT Player as a backup—although I’d startup my PC first. - Advenger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Windows Media player (for wmv's and mpegs)
Winamp (most everything else)
media player classic (for those obscure formats or subs)
real player (for real stuff)
quicktime (for apple stuff)
windvd 5 (dvd playback)
Did I miss anything? No, I think I have all formats covered. I even downloaded a few of those codec packs for media player classic and winamp. - Axlrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WMP10 rox.
- cfazzini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Media Player Classic + Winamp.
- Jacob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Media Monkey is by far the best for music there is no comparison its features and interface just rule.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 KlipschFan >> Then shut up and add it. That's the idea of wiki.... ^_^
- BenStockwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't go wrong with VLC, MPlayer, or XINE for video playback. XMMS, and Rhythmbox are nice for music. I suppose Amarok is a good choice for those KDE folk.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VLC followed by media player clasic if required.
...anything that doesn't play with either of those just doesn't get watched.
Oh... and I still use winamp for the stream ripper plug-in. - mlingojones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iTunes, Quicktime, and Realplayer....
And don't digg Wikpipedia articles. It's not news, it's an article. - lavar78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0iTunes for audio
QuickTime and VLC for video - masterzora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why can't people get this through their heads:
DON'T DIGG WIKIPEDIA LINKS!
This has been a Public Service Announcement.
Keep Digg Clean! -
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