I must say the time of major suckage is now over, as far as I can see. Being on windows, I wasted a lot of time hunting for video codecs, installing various media players like mpc, videolan, various wmp's... They all kinda sucked. mpc keeps bugging me about sound errors. Videolan is bloaty, no performance on my p3/500.

Yesterday I read about the rc1 of mplayer. Well, I did some testings, web searching and finally found the http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about&lang=en project. Finally I ended installing the full package of mpui+mplayer+codecs

Now I've got everything I ever wanted. A performance player, a media player 6 based, quick gui, a highly portable application, which simply just plays anything. Any audio format, any video format, even the major pita formats like qt and rm.

well, i thought everyone knows how cool is mplayer (mpui is not bad either), however there is still some space reserved for mpc+'commerical avc decoder' if you need to squeeze the latest drop for HD AVC.
edit: MuldeR did a nice job with this distro.
edit2: another thing, mplayer is still unable to play avc videos in mp4 via http (progressive download) - so iam still doomed for qt for such actions....

Only if 'commerical avc decoder' isn't QuickTime. I get horrible performance from official quicktime AVC / h.264 decoding. It drops frames on 720p video, including mov files that came from Apple itself (trailers, etc). And I have an AMD 3200+ system, that should be plenty of cpu power. VLC decodes the same files with no dropped frames and cpu use never goes above 80%.

(Though I haven't retested this in quite a while, if apple has put out a new windows quicktime that improved things...)

I can say ive been in the same position as Squeller. I used to use MPC and I hated finding and installing a bunch of codecs. After I had formatted it was a tough decision between Videolan or Mplayer. I had chosen Videolan (IIRC Mplayer cant read OGM) instead but I keep a copy of mplayer just in case. Now Im so picky about codecs I use the nero micro installer to stop nero from installing its own codecs. I use quicktime also.

nope, i meant CoreAVC + haali splitter + mpc combo.

heh. I use VLC, and now with one added .dll it plays wmv so I'm good.

Very nice. Now where's the button to switch it into English?!

Cheers,
David.

Media Player Classic + ffdshow is all you need.

Hehe. I have another combo. It's actually most fastest. TCPMP 0.72RC1 player + Coreavc/aac plugins.
It's even faster than zoomplayer+coreavc wich is slightly faster than mpc+coreavc wich 1.5x faster here than mpc+ max. optimizied ffdshow build.

Mplayer + w32codecs is all I need to play anything I ever came across.

However, VLC is a viable alternative, eventhough it doesn't play as much as mplayer, VLC's strong point is that it has internal codecs, so you don't have to worry about that.

The only thing I can't play is DRM-encrypted windows media audio/video, but that's not mplayer's fault.

TREX6662k6: Mplayer can read .ogm just fine! on my system it reads .ogm by default, without installing the w32codecs package, but that's on linux... but I would guess that the same applies to the windows version?

Oh yea, back when I used windows I liked MPC too... but then again... I didn't know about Mplayer when I used windows. I did use VLC alot though. MPC and VLC were my favourite video players. VLC still is one of my favourites by the way, but Mplayer is really number one for me. (it has an amaaazing feature list! you can even watch video straight from the framebuffer without running a graphical interface in linux! i love that feature, especially if your framebuffer is set to a nice modern resolution)

bit offtopic; coreavc new standard edition (dunno about other versions) now requires internet activation, think twice before upgrading.

more; http://www.corecodec.com/forum/index.php?t...g20913#msg20913

Tools -> options (need to guess by the icon) -> last drop-down menu is language setting.

Took me quite some time to figure out.

That works while it's running, but it keeps defaulting back to Dansk next time!

(If I cared, I'd try harder, but it isn't working that well for some of my files anyway - it can't seem to find a DV codec on my system, while everything else can!)

Cheers,
David.

What David said. ^^

I'm having the exact same problem, but didn't really bother to keep looking for a solution.

did you two try the mulder's distro, i have no such troubles:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/html/...ts.html#mplayer

Sorry to revive a month old topic, but Im getting that language problem on mulders disto. Is there a fix for this issue?

I just switched from VLC back to mplayer. And must say its performance is good and after comparasion delivers better image quality.