On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:51:05 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 01/12/2014 23:49, flatfish+++ wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:47:16 +0000, Brian Gregory wrote:

Well maybe, but I find more bugs in VLC than I do if I just install
Combined Community Codec Pack and play in Media Player Classic Home Cinema.

VLC tends to be buggy but mPlayer is even worse.

For formal viewing, I'd use smplayer over mplayer.

I should have been clearer, I was talking about smplayer.

But mplayer is good for previewing movies and songs, or if I feel too lazy
to move my mouse to a menu entry.

I may be lazy, but not that lazy!
lol!

The latest version of VLC has been working fine for me though.
Under Windows 8.1 of course.

The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't
talking to each other, it would get fixed for one version and the next
version it'd be broken again. I think it was the 2.0.x versions.

Never had many issues with mplayer or VLC, really.

Some weird stuff once in a while but overall VLC is pretty darn good
for me as well. I think VLC and mplayer don't deal as well with
videos/music that have errors in the file as some of the other
players do.

Could never stand Windows Media Player. A grotesque UI.

You may be surprised to hear this from me, but I agree 100 percent.
It is completely non-intuitive.
Horrible IMHO.


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