I'm currently using VLC player for watching divx and other video extensions, but I was wondering if there's a better free (or retail) alternative that offers support for all types of extensions, that also has a friendly and robust user interface.
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Best all-in-one media player?
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that's incredibly unfortunate if that's that case. i'm still wishing someone would port over media player classic. simply the best player for windows. VLC is too unstable and unreliable.
Hmm... I've had problems with flip4mac and quicktime, but never one single issue with vlc.
I agree with clevin that VLC is the best out there that's free. I've never tried any retail ones thought, but that's because I've never needed to.
well, there is a mplayer for OSX, derived from MPlayer for linux, it is all around as well, and video is played in one integrated window. But I found it to be inaccurate when seeking through the video (especially wmv).
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
I've had issues with VLC as well, it does seem to crash quite a lot.
It's a shame the apple remote doesn't work with it anymore (not that I can find my remote at the moment...)
What version of VLC Player are you running? Check you have the latest version, has tons of fixes aswell as remote control compatibility.
The latest VLC build hasn't crashed for me yet (*touch wood*).
It's been the opposite for me. Media Player Classic occasionally lost codecs for me in Windows XP, but VLC has always been very stable and is practically flawless for me in Windows XP as well as Panther and Tiger. The worst issue I've had with VLC is the occasional meaningless error window, but you can always click "ignore further errors" anyway....
My VLC used to crash all the time, I deleted it and re-installed the latest copy. Not a problem since....
Seconded. I use VLC for everything and have never had it crash once on me. I do have Flip4Mac and Perian as well though for QuickTime which works very well too.
well, i updated from c to d.. lets see if its any better. i'm skeptical though. almost 90% of the time with c, i couldn't quit with the video window open without it crashing.
Again, version D is the official Leopard release. Anything pre D will be buggy.
Common sense...come on.
^^ i didn't know that d was the official leopard release. c was on here when i was running tiger.. oh well, i'll give it a test run later in the day when i have time.