Alternative to Windows Media Player

[theCro]

is there any ? for Windows

[Canadian Lover]

Winamp?

[Orethrius]

For just Windows, there's Media Player Classic which is basically WMP 6.4 with all the features and none of the spyware.  There's also VideoLAN for  Windows, OS X, and most distributions of Linux (with sources available for those that haven't been precompiled already).  I recommend the latter, but the former isn't half-bad either.

[bedouin]

VLC is a great all-around media player.  It will play just about anything thrown at it.

Apparently there's a beta version of MPlayer for Windows too, though I've never tried it.

[ August 17, 2004: Message edited by: bedouin ]

[theCro]

all ofare not even close to WMP 9, what i ment is alternative that is really good and has all the features of real WmP9... i think i again must stay with wmp9 ...

[Orethrius]

Maybe we missed the point here, but what are you trying to play with alternative players?  If it's the new-standard WinMedia, it won't play on anything but WMP (though VLC's developers are working on support for it).  If you're looking for pop-ups, then yes, they lack that "feature."      

EDIT: If you're referring to the "news" feature that phones home every time you open it, then yes - they lack that.  I'd think you'd use your favorite news site for that, though, not some software that tries to be everything to everybody and fails.  If you're referring to the burner... *ahem* WHY are you using a player that actively utilizes DRM in its own media?  Aren't you the LEAST bit concerned that it's passing those on in every CD you burn?  There's a reason why people use MP3s and Ogg-Vorbis, ya know.      

[ August 18, 2004: Message edited by: Midnight Candidate/BOB ]

[skyman8081]

I use media player classic + real alternative

it will play anything there is a codec for.

which rocks

[Canadian Lover]

this should be moved to applications.

[Orethrius]

Agreed.
+10 CoolPoints(TM) to the first mod that moves this to Applications.
 :cool:

[Fett101]

And where exactly are these cool points redeemable?

Winamp is your best option.  

[solarismka]

I don't know if xine works with windows but its an amazing media player for Linux

[skyman8081]

the win32 port of xine is long depreciated.

and the build I got did not work for me on the 'rents xp box.

I still stick by media player classic

[worker201]

Hello, Quicktime?

It meets most of my windows media needs.

[Novaz04]

iTunes, from Apple    

Also, if you want to stick with WMP, WMP 10 is out.   :eek:

[ September 04, 2004: Message edited by: Novaz04 ]

[pandronic]

I use Bsplayer
It's fast, small and skinable.