   Good idea for sale
  You know what would be a good idea for a piece of software? A media player that actually works.Right now I bet I have 10 different media players installed, and I still cant seem to play every video clip I come accross. Some players work with some clips and other players work with other clips. Some Play the audio but not the video and some play  the video but not the audio. Some play a lot of different vids, others barely play any at all. Sometimes 2 or more players actually play a vid, and in that case I use my preferred player, because some of them are better than others at skipping to places in the movie, and some seem to slow down the computer more than others. Sometimes an earlier version of a player will play vids that the later version wont. So you need to have version 9 AND 10 installed to cover the most ground. Any time a player cant play a vid, it says it will try and download new codecs. That NEVER works.With the proliferation of high speed internet, and things like file sharing abd peer to peer and porn and huge email attachments, and all the freekin videos flying around the internet, Im really surprised that theres not one good all round player out there. Why does a company not step up and nail this market? I would pay for a player that worked on all my videos. Im sure most others would too. Everyone, feel free to recommend your favorite video players here. But Ill bet dollars to donuts that any one of them would only play 50% of the videos on my computer, at best. Its mind boggling that a company doesnt step up and create a decent player. We need one!!   
  I dislike VLC's interface, and it sucks at seeking in certain files, but I've never found a file it won't play.   ;Quote:Original post by SneftelI dislike VLC's interface, and it sucks at seeking in certain files, but I've never found a file it won't play.Ditto, up until this week when I was playing a Matroska file that kept skipping and dropping frames.I ended up using Media Player Classic for it. I think it's a bug in ffmpeg.   ;  VLC is definetly in my arsenal.I like its interface and its quick load time. You're right about file seeking though, its kind of jumpy. VLC is by far my favorite right now. It seems to play a huge percentage of the videos out there. But right now im trying to play a video and VLC isnt cutting the mustard. Theres no audio. I know the file has audio because one of my other players plays the audio (but not the video). LOL maybe i should try starting the video in both players simultaneously!... Nope that didnt work.   ;  I'm sure there are licensing issues preventing video players from bundling every possible codec, if that were even possible (there are so many different codecs for different A/V standards).  Not to mention that different codecs have different strengths, so it's nice that you can sometimes pick and choose.I second the VLC suggestion; it's rock-solid.  But you still need a good set of codecs installed, so head over to free-codecs and grab one of the codec packs (plus Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative if they're not included in your chosen codec pack).   ;  ive ranted on this before but from the (at least 5) media players ive tried absolutely none have a fast forward function that works if a small segment in the dvd is scratched, eg say the dvd playback buggers up at 30:04 secs, i cant skip ahead 10secs/1 minute, basically they all freeze (keep on trying to play the damaged area)normally what i have to do if is kill the program, + start the app again (+ then manually skip to time 30:30secs) comeon this aint rocket science