Media Player Suggestions?

Android412 · July 12th, 2011

For quite awhile now I've been using Media Player Classic HC combined with CCCP codec pack. It works great, does everything I want.

However, every once and awhile I run into a file that was just encoded wrong/funny that MPC HC doesn't play right, usually too fast, or no sound (rare, but it happens, usually F1 races for some reason). I try opening it in Window Media Player 12, and it plays fine. For the amount that it this happens, I could care less...if it didn't look SO much better then MPC HC

And that's my only complaint, is that WMP has a cleaner picture.

So why not use WMP you say, well I hate the user interface, and it doesn't play everything.

So my question(s) is:

1. Am I just seeing things, or is this something other people have noticed too?

2. And what other options would you recommend? And why? (Which I assume most are going to say VLC, but I'd like to see if anything else gets recommended)

Android412

**American Zombie** · July 12th, 2011

I use KM Player as it can play just about anything without additional codecs.

Enable the advanced menu for even more options including screen captures.

KM Player

**LordOfLA** · July 12th, 2011

You could uninstall cccp and just use mpc-hc straight up.

**Johnny** · July 12th, 2011

VLC Player.

**LordOfLA** · July 12th, 2011

For watching content with subtitles VLC is about the last one to use.

**Johnny** · July 12th, 2011

I never had an issue with VLC. The only complaint I have with it is that sound is some times screwy.

**American Zombie** · July 12th, 2011

Ever tried KM Player Johnny?

It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player.

Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use.

Here is one site: Best Free Media Player

Android412 · July 13th, 2011

Originally Posted by American Zombie

Ever tried KM Player Johnny?

It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player.

Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use.

Here is one site: Best Free Media Player

Hmm, I like it.

Took awhile to go through all the options to get it configured the way I want. Which is almost a feature and a downfall in itself, that there's SO much available to be customized...but it can be hard to find certain options when you want them.

The only downfalls I can find is that it doesn't playback DTS HD MA/Dolby True HD track (I googled around a bit for a solution, but the one I found said it "kinda worked", and would randomly crash the player), and seemed to have problems with some m2ts

And I set it up so when I double click the screen it goes full screen, just doesn't seem to always register the double click (with certain file formats) which in turn pauses it, which is kind of annoying.

Definitely has potential, but I don't think it's quite ready to replace MPC HC for me yet.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

P.S. I was messing around with some of the renderer settings in MPC HC and seem to have improved the picture, so I might have solved my own problem.

**Johnny** · July 13th, 2011

Originally Posted by American Zombie

Ever tried KM Player Johnny?

It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player.

Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use.

Here is one site: Best Free Media Player

I will check it out. Thanks for the info.

**Vanquished** · July 13th, 2011

Hey there, kinda along the same lines as this problem.
I have been using MPCHT for a while, it plays the video perfectly and it will deal with AC3 encoded files well. But when I try to play DTS encoded files (through SPDIF) the sound is all choppy. VLC will play the DTS files just fine, its sends my Denon receiver into Dolby Digital which is what I want. I can't use VLC however because the computer its on is rocking 1 gb of ram on windows 7 basic (with a 7900gt ko card). MPC works fine on this and the video doesn't get choppy but with VLC it does on the big files (10+gb) but we can't seem to get MPC to use DTS correctly. We have 5.1 surround through the receiver which is why we want it to output correctly.
Any Help?
I've tried lots of things already with filters and such, does anybody know of another media player (paid or free) that isn't resource intensive but that works with DTS audio maybe?

**dreamliner77** · July 14th, 2011

Good luck with that. That's just not enough ram to allow any media player to handle (most) files that contain DTS audio and what I'd assume is high bit rate video, especially files that are over 10GB!

**Vanquished** · July 14th, 2011

Originally Posted by dreamliner77

Good luck with that. That's just not enough ram to allow any media player to handle (most) files that contain DTS audio and what I'd assume is high bit rate video, especially files that are over 10GB!

Is DTS harder to run than AC3? I can run AC3 files perfectly through MPC, VLC will play most of the DTS files but interestingly enough, the computer cant handle inception through vlc at the exploding dream part (MPC can handle it fine). It's just DTS that doesnt work through MPC, I downloaded AC3Filter and it allows MPC to play the DTS audio fine but it seems like the video and audio are getting out of sync using this (at least I hope thats what the problem is and that I didn't mess something up that was working before). It's just annoying, like if I could take the DTS codec from VLC and make it work in MPC it would be good lol. I'd buy more ram for the system but its running ddr and that stuff is friggin expensive now. can't justify the cost.

**dreamliner77** · July 16th, 2011

Yes, DTS is usually harder to process.

What speed ram do you need, I have a crapload sitting around...

**Vanquished** · July 17th, 2011

Originally Posted by dreamliner77

Yes, DTS is usually harder to process.

What speed ram do you need, I have a crapload sitting around...

Its an Asus A8N-E board, it was running pc3200 back in the day but now its got 4 sticks of pc2700 256mb ram that I stole from a Dell somewhere.
It's kinda surprising that it even runs

**dreamliner77** · July 18th, 2011

Originally Posted by Vanquished

Its an Asus A8N-E board, it was running pc3200 back in the day but now its got 4 sticks of pc2700 256mb ram that I stole from a Dell somewhere.
It's kinda surprising that it even runs

Hmmm. Let me look around, I might have some 512 sticks of 3200 somewhere.

**Vanquished** · July 18th, 2011

Originally Posted by dreamliner77

Hmmm. Let me look around, I might have some 512 sticks of 3200 somewhere.

Don't worry about it

I found some 512mb sticks of 2700 ram on ebay for 7 bucks a piece I bought 3 of them (only 3 available) so I guess I'll be running 1768 mb of ram (assuming they all work)

Even though I know thats still a small bit of ram for what I'm trying to do lol.

**Vanquished** · July 22nd, 2011

So I just got my ram, Feel kinda stupid with 1.75gb of ram (wish he had 4 sticks of 512mb). So chances that adding 768mb of ram made a difference?
Keep in mind I'm running windows 7 Basic. And on that note, would making it 4X512mb sticks be worth it (2gb total)?
-Jack

**dreamliner77** · July 23rd, 2011

It made a difference. Make sure you readjust the virtual memory settings.

**Vanquished** · July 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by dreamliner77

It made a difference. Make sure you readjust the virtual memory settings.

On Windows or is there something in the media player as well?
What should I set it to in Windows?

**LordOfLA** · July 23rd, 2011

for windows 7? either system managed or 1.5*ram.

July 12th, 2011	Top \| #1
Android412 OSNN Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: Hamilton, ON Posts: 198 Reputation: 40 Power: 104	Media Player Suggestions? For quite awhile now I've been using Media Player Classic HC combined with CCCP codec pack. It works great, does everything I want. However, every once and awhile I run into a file that was just encoded wrong/funny that MPC HC doesn't play right, usually too fast, or no sound (rare, but it happens, usually F1 races for some reason). I try opening it in Window Media Player 12, and it plays fine. For the amount that it this happens, I could care less...if it didn't look SO much better then MPC HC And that's my only complaint, is that WMP has a cleaner picture. So why not use WMP you say, well I hate the user interface, and it doesn't play everything. So my question(s) is: 1. Am I just seeing things, or is this something other people have noticed too? 2. And what other options would you recommend? And why? (Which I assume most are going to say VLC, but I'd like to see if anything else gets recommended) Android412

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American Zombie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: June 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,864 Reputation: 2689 Power: 151	Re: Media Player Suggestions? I use KM Player as it can play just about anything without additional codecs. Enable the advanced menu for even more options including screen captures. KM Player

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,031 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 213	Re: Media Player Suggestions? You could uninstall cccp and just use mpc-hc straight up. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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Johnny Paul Reed Smith Joined: January 2004 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 4,869 Reputation: 2369 Power: 173	Re: Media Player Suggestions? VLC Player. Paul Reed Smith.

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,031 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 213	Re: Media Player Suggestions? For watching content with subtitles VLC is about the last one to use. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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July 12th, 2011	Top \| #6
Johnny Paul Reed Smith Joined: January 2004 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 4,869 Reputation: 2369 Power: 173	Re: Media Player Suggestions? I never had an issue with VLC. The only complaint I have with it is that sound is some times screwy. Paul Reed Smith.

July 12th, 2011	Top \| #7
American Zombie OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: June 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,864 Reputation: 2689 Power: 151	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Ever tried KM Player Johnny? It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player. Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use. Here is one site: Best Free Media Player

July 13th, 2011	Top \| #8
Android412 OSNN Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: Hamilton, ON Posts: 198 Reputation: 40 Power: 104	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by American Zombie Ever tried KM Player Johnny? It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player. Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use. Here is one site: Best Free Media Player Hmm, I like it. Took awhile to go through all the options to get it configured the way I want. Which is almost a feature and a downfall in itself, that there's SO much available to be customized...but it can be hard to find certain options when you want them. The only downfalls I can find is that it doesn't playback DTS HD MA/Dolby True HD track (I googled around a bit for a solution, but the one I found said it "kinda worked", and would randomly crash the player), and seemed to have problems with some m2ts And I set it up so when I double click the screen it goes full screen, just doesn't seem to always register the double click (with certain file formats) which in turn pauses it, which is kind of annoying. Definitely has potential, but I don't think it's quite ready to replace MPC HC for me yet. Thanks for the suggestion though. P.S. I was messing around with some of the renderer settings in MPC HC and seem to have improved the picture, so I might have solved my own problem.

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Johnny Paul Reed Smith Joined: January 2004 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 4,869 Reputation: 2369 Power: 173	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by American Zombie Ever tried KM Player Johnny? It is rated by many sites as the very best free media player. Go to options in KM Player after install and enable the advanced menu for more options to use for playback/etc. then you will probably ever use. Here is one site: Best Free Media Player I will check it out. Thanks for the info. Paul Reed Smith.

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Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Hey there, kinda along the same lines as this problem. I have been using MPCHT for a while, it plays the video perfectly and it will deal with AC3 encoded files well. But when I try to play DTS encoded files (through SPDIF) the sound is all choppy. VLC will play the DTS files just fine, its sends my Denon receiver into Dolby Digital which is what I want. I can't use VLC however because the computer its on is rocking 1 gb of ram on windows 7 basic (with a 7900gt ko card). MPC works fine on this and the video doesn't get choppy but with VLC it does on the big files (10+gb) but we can't seem to get MPC to use DTS correctly. We have 5.1 surround through the receiver which is why we want it to output correctly. Any Help? I've tried lots of things already with filters and such, does anybody know of another media player (paid or free) that isn't resource intensive but that works with DTS audio maybe? Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

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dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,653 Reputation: 1111 Power: 182	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Good luck with that. That's just not enough ram to allow any media player to handle (most) files that contain DTS audio and what I'd assume is high bit rate video, especially files that are over 10GB! "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

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Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by dreamliner77 Good luck with that. That's just not enough ram to allow any media player to handle (most) files that contain DTS audio and what I'd assume is high bit rate video, especially files that are over 10GB! Is DTS harder to run than AC3? I can run AC3 files perfectly through MPC, VLC will play most of the DTS files but interestingly enough, the computer cant handle inception through vlc at the exploding dream part (MPC can handle it fine). It's just DTS that doesnt work through MPC, I downloaded AC3Filter and it allows MPC to play the DTS audio fine but it seems like the video and audio are getting out of sync using this (at least I hope thats what the problem is and that I didn't mess something up that was working before). It's just annoying, like if I could take the DTS codec from VLC and make it work in MPC it would be good lol. I'd buy more ram for the system but its running ddr and that stuff is friggin expensive now. can't justify the cost. Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

July 16th, 2011	Top \| #13
dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,653 Reputation: 1111 Power: 182	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Yes, DTS is usually harder to process. What speed ram do you need, I have a crapload sitting around... "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

July 17th, 2011	Top \| #14
Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by dreamliner77 Yes, DTS is usually harder to process. What speed ram do you need, I have a crapload sitting around... Its an Asus A8N-E board, it was running pc3200 back in the day but now its got 4 sticks of pc2700 256mb ram that I stole from a Dell somewhere. It's kinda surprising that it even runs Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

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dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,653 Reputation: 1111 Power: 182	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by Vanquished Its an Asus A8N-E board, it was running pc3200 back in the day but now its got 4 sticks of pc2700 256mb ram that I stole from a Dell somewhere. It's kinda surprising that it even runs Hmmm. Let me look around, I might have some 512 sticks of 3200 somewhere. "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

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Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by dreamliner77 Hmmm. Let me look around, I might have some 512 sticks of 3200 somewhere. Don't worry about it I found some 512mb sticks of 2700 ram on ebay for 7 bucks a piece I bought 3 of them (only 3 available) so I guess I'll be running 1768 mb of ram (assuming they all work) Even though I know thats still a small bit of ram for what I'm trying to do lol. Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

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Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? So I just got my ram, Feel kinda stupid with 1.75gb of ram (wish he had 4 sticks of 512mb). So chances that adding 768mb of ram made a difference? Keep in mind I'm running windows 7 Basic. And on that note, would making it 4X512mb sticks be worth it (2gb total)? -Jack Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

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dreamliner77 The Analog Kid Joined: March 2002 Location: Red Sox Nation Posts: 4,653 Reputation: 1111 Power: 182	Re: Media Player Suggestions? It made a difference. Make sure you readjust the virtual memory settings. "You can fight without ever winning, but never win without a fight." -Neil Peart of RUSH

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Vanquished B's logo for a game! Joined: January 2006 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 4,840 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1816 Power: 144	Re: Media Player Suggestions? Originally Posted by dreamliner77 It made a difference. Make sure you readjust the virtual memory settings. On Windows or is there something in the media player as well? What should I set it to in Windows? Phenom II X4 955 BE \| 12GB DDR3 1600mhz \| Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 \| ATI Radeon 5770 CrossfireX \|Windows Awesome (I Mean... Windows 7 Ultimate!) OSNN - The Best Place to Stay on the Internet! Watch Improv-A-Ganza!

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,031 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 213	Re: Media Player Suggestions? for windows 7? either system managed or 1.5*ram. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.