Multimedia file player - recommendations ?

[basic channel]

hi

I want something small, free & unobstrusive that plays anything you can throw at it e.g. windows videos, Quicktime etc.

I don't want bloatware Quicktime etc.

Any recommended software ?

thanks


BC

[diverdee]

Videolan VLC

[basic channel]

thanks

Also found something called Quicktime Alternative.

Which is better (ie. less buggy, instrusive etc). ?

This is going on my primary DAW OS partition ...

[diverdee]

I have quicktoime alternative also, but I tend to use VLC for pretty much everything with no problems.

[spacefox]

thanks

Also found something called Quicktime Alternative.

Which is better (ie. less buggy, instrusive etc). ?

This is going on my primary DAW OS partition ...

Quicktime Alternative isn't a player. It's Quicktime codecs coupled with an open source player called Media Player Classic.

It's dubious at best, or was last time I checked. Not only it installed Apple software (which is probably against the EULA) - it inserted a Quicktime Pro serial, making it effectively a Quicktime Pro crack (you can easily removed the serial if you want, though).
Things might have changed there, but you might want to keep that in mind.

[basic channel]

thanks again

Well I tried VLC and it didn't work

I'm trying to watch my Stylus RMX videos - but when I launch them I get multiple windows with the opening shot of the video, and sound, but no moving pictures.

There are lots of errors listed in the "Messages" section of VLC about:

main warning: late picture skipped (79518000)

vout_directx warning: could not blit surface (error -2005532522)


And a few about:

ffmpeg error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

Why didn't Eric just make them for WMP ??

BC

[woodster]

Weird,

I have no problems using VLC to watch the Spectrasonics Videos

[thecontrolcentre]

I use VLC, WinAmp and Media Player Classic.