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Heres the link: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Well compared to iTunes which takes 15 seconds to start up, and Windows Media Player which takes forever to do basic tasks like switching songs, this is super fast. I opened it and loaded my library of 1500 songs in no time at all. Check it out.

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It has excellent reputation but it didn't convince me (with regard to ergonomics, IIRC).

I use foobar2000 (yes, the name is silly) to play my playlist, and Media Player Classic (name isn't excellent either), the http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/ variant, to play other media files on the fly (ie. without putting them in the playlist first).

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I use to use VLC alot. It recently became kind of resource heavy on older computers.
I did really only use it for playing music on the fly or movies. Otherwise I used Songbird or Foobar depending on if it was during the time period I owned an ipod or not.

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Disclaimer: I'm not an expert by any means; I just try to help out where I can.

I use foobar for music, KMPlayer for video, SMPlayer for screwy subtitles which don't work on KMPlayer.

I always use VLC for videos. It's great.

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~sumon • Appifyer• AHK Nova halted • Recommended: AHK_L (Why?)

I love VLC. I have used it for several years now. It plays everything even flash videos. Great!

I recommend it to everyone.

It used to do shoutcast TV but now they have been forced to remove this feature from the program so now I dont use it as I prefer KMplayer and Splayer(not SMplayer thought its good too)

I have found some features in VLC that I have not been able to find in any other player I've tried and I've tested a bunch.

1. When watching a video full screen it does not revert back to a window when it loses focus. I can have a video full screen on one monitor and work on another.

2. When a video is played the player opens and plays full screen on which ever monitor the link was clicked, not the systems default monitor. Very few of the other players I tried including windows media player would play full screen on any but the default monitor. I have a projector and video screen as one of my monitors and only VLC will play a video full screen on it.

I've been using VLC for several years so I haven't tried any of the others for a while. If some others now have these features I would be interested to know.

I also recently figured out how to use VLC's HTTP interface making it very easy to use with AHK.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=69150

Great tip specter! I'm watching Dexter right now (and coding at the same time )

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aboutscript ⍟ apps ⍟ scripts
Any code ⇈ above ⇈ requires AutoHotkey_L to run

the reputation comes from it being able to play almost anything out of the box, no need to download bunch of codec-packs to be able to play something like an ogg file or a mkv movie.

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I like that VLC can play ISO movies unlike a lot of other players, plus it's better at streaming certain internet video broadcasts that I watch than other alternatives I've tried (MPC and WMP).

That said, it reacts very slowly on an oldish secondary PC I have to switches from full screen to smaller window, and I think MPC and PotPlayer are lighter on resources (albeit less comprehensive in formats covered, I think). Also some commercial alternatives I've tried were able to handle certain high-end videos better that VLC (and other free ones) failed me on.

My favorite free players at the moment: VLC, MPC, PotPlayer
Excellent commercial players right now: Zoom Player, Splash PRO and BS.Player

Of course things change quickly these days so who knows what best tomorrow... and it may also depend on your hardware (graphics card, CPU, ram, ...)

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Hardware: 1.8 GHz laptop with 4 GB ram, Windows XP/SP3
Software: Prevx, Privatefirewall, KeyScrambler.