And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(
Usually MPV first then VLC if I have some specific need, but that's me I guess.
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MPV for movies, VLC for anything else.
Share why you use mpv specifically for movies?
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For real though. I have yet to find a file VLC can't play. I have some old 8-bit .au files that play perfect. It even supports really obscure proprietary codecs from 20 years ago.
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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 just use the photos app. It does everything I've tried just as well as the movie app, and it actually works. I find it funny that the photo app is better than the video app at playing videos.
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
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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.
For some reason it always puts ampersands in the text on the left side, for me anyways. Like, it'll say "Alb&ums" and stuff like that.
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
Never knew that one.
remember mplayer2? That was a great built-in Mediaplayer. wmplayer was okay-ish, then after that it only went downhill.
Yea that was 98/ME era right? The one with the crazy skins lmao
2000/xp also had still mplayer2 even though MS wanted to promote wmplayer (which was first shipped with Me)
and yeah the skins for wmplayer were absolutely crazy. But from back then my favourite freeform player was Sonique.
You just unlocked a memory. My grandparents bought us a computer that had ME installed in 2001. It was a nightmare.
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)
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XBMC is still a thing?
They re-named it "Kodi" but a lot of the stuff in it doesn't work very well anymore
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Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that's more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.
that's more of a ~~Blu-Ray~~ DRM problem
Fixed that for you, and fuck DRM.
Correct, plus the fact that you can inject libraries for dealing with Blu-ray DRM into VLC is yet another reason why VLC is awesome.
wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years--pushing the 'app' shit instead.
on win11, you should find 'windows media player legacy' hiding in 'windows tools'.
Since the time of internet I've used Winamp for music, MPC and VLC for videos, Irfanview for images. Now I use Kodi for movies and series, Foobar2000 for music, Irfanview for images and MPC for other videos. Fuck streaming services.
Even on Windows, I used Media Player Classic for like fifteen straight years.
The built-in shader support was cool as fuck.
IIRC you have to pay for a certain media format. 1984