Alternative to VLC?

[storage]

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 🙂

 

[Blubbert]

You could try installing Perian, and Flip4Mac. That should allow you to play all the commonly found files.

 

[MisterMe]

I love QuickTime-based/Mplayer-compatible Cellulo.

 

[eenu]

yeah vlc is a bit weird......it will crash on first opening but on the second opening its fine! 😕

 

[theBB]

Interesting, VLC works fine for me. Well, of course I probably jinxed it now. 🙂

 

[killmoms]

Make sure you have the most recent version of VLC, 0.8.6.

 

[Eric5h5]

Make sure you have the most recent version of VLC, 0.8.6.

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

 

[Compile 'em all]

Try out Nice Player.

 

[d-fi]

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

 

[gre2974]

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.

 

[storage]

You could try installing Perian, and Flip4Mac. That should allow you to play all the commonly found files.

Thanks, that's a really nice idea 🙂. I need to buy QuickTime Pro to watch in fullscreen, right?

I love QuickTime-based/Mplayer-compatible Cellulo.

I'll take a look at Cellulo, thanks! 🙂

Make sure you have the most recent version of VLC, 0.8.6.

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 🙁.

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

Tried redownloading it, reinstalling Mac OS X and so on, still no luck! 🙁

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it!

 

[czeluff]

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

 

[storage]

Try out Nice Player.

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

Wow, NicePlayer is really, really nice. One of the best movie players I've ever used! Thanks a lot! 🙂