Suggested Players [Archive]

dipdog

2nd April 2007, 18:19

I'd appreciate any suggestions for Media player/renderer combinations which use the least amount of CPU/GPU when playing avi video files. Thanx!

- Scott

LoRd_MuldeR

2nd April 2007, 18:37

For low CPU usage I definitely recommend MPlayer plus DirectX/Overlay (default) renderer.

joseph5

2nd April 2007, 18:48

Or VideoLAN.

setarip_old

2nd April 2007, 19:31

Good ol' (MS) Windows Media Player v.6.4

Desktop>>Start>>Run>>mplayer2.exe

gameplaya15143

4th April 2007, 00:11

Good ol' (MS) Windows Media Player v.6.4I'll second that :D

\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe
;)

SealTooGreat

4th April 2007, 04:48

I'll second that :D

\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe
;)
...+Haali+ffdshow:p

DewAsmara

4th April 2007, 10:49

Or VideoLAN.

Actually,
I prefer VideoLan over any software, but very dissapoint with the latest one because cannot works in Vista. Even for play DVD also not work. Right now only wait for miracle to find any player that can play any codec in Vista. Even WM11 in my Vista also have bug problem that cannot play DVD also (not only AVI, Mpeg4 and others).

dipdog

11th April 2007, 19:39

Thanx for the suggestions!

dipdog

21st April 2007, 17:19

Just wanted to add another reply to the thread. Went ahead and tried out MPlayer. I used an installation package called SMPlayer. What a great program! Perfect solution for my low GPU laptop. It plays everything perfect, and the SMPlayer frontend has all the extras you need. Thanx again for your help!

- Scott