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VLC Player vs. DivX Player vs. Windows Media Player

Topic started by LeroyBerquist on Aug. 16, 2010. Last post by Sn1PeR 1 year, 4 months ago.
Post by LeroyBerquist (24 posts)

Cast your vote

Once you make your selection the rest of the community's votes will appear.
  • VLC
  • DivX
  • WMP
Post by LeroyBerquist (24 posts) See mini bio
I need your opinion guys! 
 
I've been thinking about switching over to VLC from Divx. I like the slick interface DivX player provides but VLC player is just a lot more robust. 
 
Please comment your reasoning below.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Fish_Face_McGee (1,195 posts) See mini bio
I don't really see the point to either third-party video player.  I primarily use Zune, but it doesn't allow you to add 3rd party Codecs, so I use WMP with the Shark codec pack.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Shayo (333 posts) See mini bio
Stay with VLC. The hardcore look and nature of codec support from VLC makes it look like it's always ready for business, which is all you really need from a video player.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by SpikeSpiegel (220 posts) See mini bio
VLC. It does everything.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by simian (901 posts) See mini bio
VLC on my media center and KMPlayer on my netbook since I used special codecs to make use of the ION chipset.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Forte (1,386 posts) See mini bio
VLC, if for no other reason that it plays everything. 
 
Also, VLC is not bloated like other media players, and it can be as easy to use or as fine tuned as you want.  That said I still use WMP on occasion.  There is nothing really 'wrong' with WMP 11, except when it comes to compatibility.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by JoMate (1,633 posts) See mini bio
Vlc it plays everything but I don't like it's interface at all, so I use Quicktime (I'm on mac) with some add ons to make it play everything as wel
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Jiggah (31 posts) See mini bio
Out of those three, VLC.  In general, Media Player Classic - Home Cinema + FFDShow. 
 
VLC is nice if you don't want to deal with codecs.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by monkeyroach (27 posts) See mini bio
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema + FFDShow
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by ebritt (542 posts) See mini bio
VLC. Very light, very robust and as long as you do the organising in windows explorer, everything it needs to be.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by GodSlam (154 posts) See mini bio
For the longest time I used GOM. Great player and it looks nice, but eventually I started having issues and switched over to VLC. VLC is amazing and can do quite a few things that you might need one day. You can use it to stream to other players and to play almost everything. I think it's the best player around.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Gigolo81 (35 posts) See mini bio
another vote for VLC here
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by TheBitterBuffalo (89 posts) See mini bio
out of all of these, VLC, but I personally prefer GOM, it has almost as much codec support and the interface is much smoother.
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago
Post by Sn1PeR (164 posts) See mini bio
@monkeyroach said:
" Media Player Classic - Home Cinema + FFDShow "
This.  Especially if you have a lightweight (atom based) htpc.  This will allow you to offload the decoding to the gpu and bitstream dolby/dts audio to your receiver for decoding.
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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