Which Media Player do you use?

[Isengard]

I used to be a big fan of Media Player Classic until Media Player 11 for Vista. Recently I started getting tired of MP11's lack of features and started looking at alternatives again. I tried VLC, but it's a broken piece of mess, then I found SMplayer and after some tweaking is the best thing since MP classic. I can finally change the aspect ratio of HD videos without losing parts of the picture.

[Dohc-WP]

MPlayer Classic (Just does it right 90% of the time) for DVD's i'll use powerDVD or i'll just pop it in the 360

[lilDeath]

VLC, PowerDVD, MP, MP Classic

[Maplassie]

Music - Media PLayer 11
Videos - Media Player Classic

[bokka1]

Media Player Classic. It works the best for me.

[shadowfox]

Depends on what I'm doing.

For music I'm using WinAmp 5.x ... but I'm experimenting with some other things.

For video I use a player called GOM Player - its pretty nice really. If I watch files with the same naming format as the rest of the files in the directory it adds them to the playlist and I just need to PgDn to skip to the next episode. It plays pretty much everything

Just refuses to format fonts for subtitles in .ogm and .mkv files - for those two formats I use Mplayer classic.

I haven't touched Windows Media Player since my days using Windows 98.

[Solitude]

I use KMPlayer. No need to install extra codecs, it looks pretty and it's quite small resource wise. I used to use GOM player but KMPlayer just works better. I also used to use Media Monkey for music but it had a lot extra functionality that I just don't require.

[SharkBait]

WMP11 of Vista.

[SpoOkie]

VLC. it has the best out of the box HD playback

[shadowfox]

WMP11 of Vista.

You like punishing yourself - don't you

I used VLC at one stage as well - I've still got it installed - but it handles mkv's with even less facility than GOM. GOM will at least go looking for the codec if you're online - and VLC doesn't play RealMedia files. Unless they've updated since I last used it.

I don't like RM files very much, but sometimes you just can't avoid the damn things.