Some thoughts on players

[Doobie]

There are so many good video players, but all the ones I've tried come up a bit short.

What's up with the popularity of Media Player Classic? Who could be nostalgic for the look of old Microsoft software? MPC also seriously lacks features.

Crystal Player Pro, not-free, has a couple of very nice features. It can use interpolation to double the frame rate. That's great for us with those digital cameras with low frame-rate videos. Can any other players do this?

I hitched my wagon to the Core Media Player, but am getting a little tired waiting for updates.

[nexx]

I too was unhappy with the video player offerings...until I found MPlayer. Plenty of features, filters and support for just about any file. And its in constant development.

Take the time to learn MPlayer. Well worth it imo.

[dbloom]

Elecard's newest versions are pretty nice. It has a nice adaptive bobbing deinterlacer, and the decoder works in pretty much ANY program. It also supports 4:2:2 and newer versions have DxVA acceleration.

As far as paying for it, all I'm saying is if you've got a hex editor (...deleted!).

It doesn't decode DVD alone, but they recently released a DVD player program for it.


If you don't like paying for things, or the guilty feelings of hex editing (I truly would pay for Elecard if it didn't rely on some super-evil restrictive product activation crap), VideoLAN Client works well and is easy to set up/use.

[dragongodz]

i doubt there will ever be a player that everyone will like or have every feature that everybody wants etc. all you can do is either use the one that closest suits your needs or write your own. :)

dbloom - you may want to consider editing and removing what you say about hex editing. i am fairly sure that would fall under rule 6.

[dbloom]

dbloom - you may want to consider editing and removing what you say about hex editing. i am fairly sure that would fall under rule 6.

Who says I wasn't talking about INCREASING the opacity? :D Nah, I'll edit it, you're right :)