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Alternative to VLC?

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I've been looking for an alternative to VLC, since it just keeps crashing, and crashing and crashing. It's not uncommon it'll crash twice during a 10 minute clip.

The only similar application I've found is mplayer, but I'm not really a fan of the mplayer UI.

Does anyone know any other video/media players? Freeware or shareware doesn't matter, as long as I can watch my movies without having to restart the application all the time!

Thanks in advance :)
 
Interesting, VLC works fine for me. Well, of course I probably jinxed it now. :)
 
killmoms said:
Make sure you have the most recent version of VLC, 0.8.6.
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0.8.6 doesn't work so well here...some stuff that used to play smoothly, doesn't anymore. I went back to 0.8.5, which works very well, and doesn't crash.

--Eric
 
I love VLC it's a one stop shop for playing video or really almost any media :)

Not that i'm trying to influence you but have you tried redownloading it? There may have been an error when you downloaded it originally. Plus as killmoms said there is a new version that just came out a couple months ago 0.8.6
 
i'm dropped vlc for nice player and so far i'm satisfied with it. it hasn't crashed yt. i like the simple and clean ui.
 
Blubbert said:
You could try installing Perian, and Flip4Mac. That should allow you to play all the commonly found files.
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Thanks, that's a really nice idea :). I need to buy QuickTime Pro to watch in fullscreen, right?

MisterMe said:
I love QuickTime-based/Mplayer-compatible Cellulo.
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I'll take a look at Cellulo, thanks! :)

killmoms said:
Make sure you have the most recent version of VLC, 0.8.6.
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I did have the latest version. Now I'm using a nightly build to see if it would fix it, which it didn't. Same problems :(.

d-fi said:
I love VLC it's a one stop shop for playing video or really almost any media :)

Not that i'm trying to influence you but have you tried redownloading it? There may have been an error when you downloaded it originally. Plus as killmoms said there is a new version that just came out a couple months ago 0.8.6
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Tried redownloading it, reinstalling Mac OS X and so on, still no luck! :(

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it!
 
what i do

Perian + NicePlayer + Flip4Mac.

the last one isnt even REALLY needed if u dont care about WMVs. But I LOVE this setup. works so well.

cz
 
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