Multi Format Media Player?

[(Shovel)]

That isn't Media Player 8 please

Just looking for something for video clips, ideally that'll do WM, MPEG, DivX, QuickTime and Real all at once

Is there such a thing?

 

[S-Gray]

Im also interested in this, would save installing all the shitty programs.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I use xine. Doesn't do RealPlayer or WindowsMedia files though.

 

[(Shovel)]

I suppose it'd be good wehn WinAmp 3 gets finished and the plug in brigade get going on exploiting the video aspect on that.

Doesn't help me now though

 

[Will]

I had a search on Google for you, there are a few multi-format players out there, though they ain't Freeware, and don't seem to support Real.

 

[MYstIC G]

Windows media player 6.4 (not available for XP afaik, soz) is still the daddy as far as i'm concerned, only formats it ever has trouble with are Quicktime (gay) and Realmedia (ubergay).

 

[Perplex]

The reason is that Real etc won't license out the codec decoder, hence, there really isn't any all-in-one media players

 

[.cage]

Media player 6.4 is installed by XP as well as 8.

Start - run - mplayer2

 

[Xavier]

Heh,

Unfortunately Apple and Real will never release full access to their codecs and drivers as the sale of their players makes too much $$$ - which kinda kills the chance of any freeware all in one soltion.

Even the likes of adobe require you to install quicktime to enable certail filetype support in their apps.

Winamp 3 WILL be able to play those filetypes but will require the app is installed too - i.e. install QT5 but view the videos through winamp which will be technically reskinning the QT video frame...

gay I know, but if you owned a multi-million dollar business creating, serving and decoding streams at a client with a your own software like apple or realnetworks you'd do all you could to make sure that someone paid for every stage of the process, tis business.

It's worth having RealOne and Quicktime installed if nothing else because both apps automatically update their codecs which means you should never have problems using their filetypes - you don't have to register them if you don't want to after all.

Oh, and WMP8.1 is going to mean the death of WMP6.4, finally =)

 

[Nighty-]

I have RealOne, WMP and QT installed ... I've set everything to play though media player (which is the majority), I only have to use RealOne and Quicktime once in a blue moon.

 

[MYstIC G]

Originally posted by Xavier
Oh, and WMP8.1 is going to mean the death of WMP6.4, finally =)

That was said about 7.....

 

[.cage]

Oh, and WMP8.1 is going to mean the death of WMP6.4, finally =)

shame, wmp7/8 have the worst gui ever. I wubs 6.4 :/

 

[Munkey-]

real is ok, cept it buggered up my associations

 

[S-Gray]

aye i dont like WMP 7/8 because you cant use your Space Bar to pause/play, so it gets a tad annoying after a while.

 

[.cage]

"the playa" is pretty nice, divx only of course, but still pretty nice.

 

[Munkey-]

good old WMP v6.4 relegated where it belongs. start > programs > accesserories > entertainment

 

[kryt]

It's not a player i know: but EO Video is a handy converter that will convert from pretty much any format to any other format : assuming you have the codecs installed : so to convert RM to mpeg, you'd need Realplayer or Realone installed : Probably the next best thing. either www.eovideo.com or www.eo-video.com



Btw, nice avatar, Xavier

 

[Testin da Cable]

amazing where that first link leads you Kryt

 

[xenon2000]

OMG It's Kryten!!!11¬!

/me waves

How long has it been since you started dwindling around here again?

 

[bodhi]

I use WMP 8.0. I double click on avis and it loads up. They then proceed to play. Which suits me.

 

[Embattle]

Nothing does em all though but this i spotted the other day:

http://www.bsplayer.org

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Originally posted by Bodhi
I use WMP 8.0. I double click on avis and it loads up. They then proceed to play. Which suits me.

I use xine. I type `xine filename.avi` which loads it up. This suits me.

 

[Hashmonster]

Originally posted by CageCunt
Media player 6.4 is installed by XP as well as 8.

Start - run - mplayer2

ooo nice tip! didn't know that

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto

I use xine. I type `xine filename.avi` which loads it up. This suits me.

First rule of Linux - why do something with a double click when you can type 3 lines of code instead?

 

[xane]

I de-installed WMP 7 because the damn thing keeps connecting to the net to find an updated version and you can't turn it off, the options are "daily", "weekly" and "monthly" only.

I use 6.4, plus the DivX Player for DivX 4 codec.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Originally posted by Bodhi
First rule of Linux - why do something with a double click when you can type 3 lines of code instead?

I can type 2 words as fast as you can prat around with your mouse

 

[Embattle]

Of course you can dear after bringing up the CMD line, or what ever it is in Linux :sleeping:

 

[Nighty-]

You bring up the CMD line by typing:

> /fr//g tttjh /`xf -r/flibble pa/rp

Then enter the lines of code in Latin

 

[FatBusinessman]

With capital letters every third character, excluding non-taxable characters and weekends. Of course.

 

[old.Jas]

I like the new real player - nice and fast with a clean interface

Quicktime is only good for watching trailers on quicktime.com