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And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
If I'm not mistaken the people behind Videolan also did x264 which is a pretty major library used to encode h.264.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264
It's a lesser known project from videolan but with a rather broad use online.
They also got h265 and Hevc libraries aswell
Not Media Player, but Windows Movie and TV Player plays video files clearer with better hue and color than any other player paid or open source, and I've tried them all. You can't adjust anything in it, if the subtitles are off you're fucked and gotta go back to VLC, but the look of the default video processing in the WMT app is hands down the best I've ever seen. I'd guess out of all the different types of codecs there are about .5% that aren't compatible with it, but it's my app of choice.
I think WinXP was the last time i used the Win Media Player 😞
If it's not skinnable what's even the point, right? I miss those neat visualizations. :D
Playing a video in the background on loop with wmp prevents your desktop from locking or showing you as away
I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.
VLC is okay..but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.
Let me recommend Strawberry Music Player. It is multi-platform, open source, has a nice library organization system and links to Musicbrainz for identification.
You can rawdog the libavcodec far more robustly via ffplay, vlc def struggles on a decent amount of media still.
I liked the old built in media player in Windows 7...
Yeah me too for the simplicity. THe “new” one is shit
KODI
remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.
who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin
Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌
(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)