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From: occam on 9 Jun 2010 06:04 On 09/06/2010 11:49, Bear Bottoms wrote: > I used to think WMP sucked and other media players were much better, like > Media Player Classic, but after making a direct comparison of all of my media > players, I've found WMP actually has by far the best image quality. > > This what my research found. http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware- > forum/multimedia/1814-windows-media-player-11-best-media-player.html > Bear, here are a couple of Lifehacker articles to support 'your' research. http://lifehacker.com/5517841/vlc-windows-media-player-stand-out-in-performance-tests and http://lifehacker.com/5513759/how-i-learned-to-love-windows-media-player
From: cwdjrxyz on 9 Jun 2010 14:25 On Jun 9, 4:49 am, Bear Bottoms <removebearbotto...(a)gmai.com> wrote: > I used to think WMP sucked and other media players were much better, like > Media Player Classic, but after making a direct comparison of all of my media > players, I've found WMP actually has by far the best image quality. > > This what my research found.http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware- > forum/multimedia/1814-windows-media-player-11-best-media-player.html I find there is no media player that is best for all of my needs. Thus I am using WMP 11, Real, QT, and Winamp for playing most of the older media formats. For Blu-ray I am using the top versions of Cyberlink Power DVD, ArcSoft, and Corel WinDVD. Even so, you sometimes have to add a codec to some player to handle some of the older and lesser used audio and video formats. I do not use any libraries if included and block all of them. Rather I use my own library system because the libraries included with most players can not handle many of my media files correctly because much of the media can not be looked up and classified properly by them. Some of the players include very limited recording ability, but I do not use this because it is by far too limited. My main program for recording and editing is the Sony Vegas Pro 9 which includes DVD Architect Pro 5 and a Dolby Digital Professional Encoder in addition to a video editor that will handle Blu-ray files that can run up to over 40 GB.This will handle video, audio, and Blu-ray disc creation. But even it will not handle everything. For instance, I use Minnetonka Audio DiscWelder Bronze for recording DVD-audio and have to use a special fly/swf encoder for modern high resolution flv/swf video. Media on computers for local and internet use is still a jungle of dozens of file types, each often having many possible resolutions. Thus, for those with limited file type needs, one player may do without having to add a lot of codecs. Of the free major players, Real seems to play more of the older file types and will play most Microsoft audio and video formats as well as Real formats. QT, as well as Real supports, several mp4 family formats as well as the .mov format. Winamp is especially good for audio formats and comes able to play a huge number of them. In addition, there are a huge number of add-ons for more obscure audio formats available for Winamp. Even with Blu-ray, there are 3 main video container files used, and they are based on mpeg2, mpeg4, and another format that had much of the development done by Microsoft.
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