what is the best videoplayer with the lowest demands?

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kaishlothon

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I found out mediaplayer was insanely demanding so i am looking at download.com but they only talk about the features not the resource requirements, All I want is the vid quality to be good the ability to play many different video formats (.avi and .mov would be wounderful ive yet to find a good one that did that.)
 
Media Player Classic for XP, VLC, and a few others will play a larger variety of video files types without running around looking for codecs. Those are the usual alternatives to WMP or QuickTime for Windows.

Another great software that doesn't place any large demand on cpu time is PowerDVD by Cyberlink. You can even toss an audio cd in and it will play that as well. It supports vcds as well as dvds along with a range of file types.
 
PC eye said:
Media Player Classic for XP, VLC, and a few others will play a larger variety of video files types without running around looking for codecs. Those are the usual alternatives to WMP or QuickTime for Windows.

Another great software that doesn't place any large demand on cpu time is PowerDVD by Cyberlink. You can even toss an audio cd in and it will play that as well. It supports vcds as well as dvds along with a range of file types.
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Oh i forgot to say i use vista... there is a classic that works on vista that i tried but it was no less demanding.
 
PC eye said:
Media Player Classic for XP, VLC, and a few others will play a larger variety of video files types without running around looking for codecs. Those are the usual alternatives to WMP or QuickTime for Windows.

Another great software that doesn't place any large demand on cpu time is PowerDVD by Cyberlink. You can even toss an audio cd in and it will play that as well. It supports vcds as well as dvds along with a range of file types.
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I use both Media player Classic and VLC but i was just wondering which one of those two have the lowest demands?
 
I would actually have to redownload and run both at this point to see myself since I haven't even been using WMP or PowerDVD much lately. I do suspect however that VLC is the one you would prefer since MPC mimics WMP quite a bit being based on that type of programming.
 
Most of the time i use VLC but sometimes i switch to windows media player classic just because i get bored of VLC and then all over again lol ...
 
I use Media Player Classic Homecinema, it uses the EVR renderer which smooths out video playback even on slow systems. I havent tried it on slow comps but it works wonders on mine with a lot of post-filtering.
Other than that, go for VLC. I could play a standard DVD on a 500mhz CPU using VLC with no frame drops.
 
They are both good players especially if you are seeing any problems with WMP in particular you can grab one of those as an alternative. Many thought WMP 11 even in Vista was a flop and often use either of those two instead.
 
I usually dont have problems with any player but those too seem to have the lowest demands... and are pretty good for me ...
 
Those will run on both XP and Vista alike making them a good choice either way. For XP here being disappointed with WMP 11 I gave them both a try until being able to clean the beta version of 11 for XP off in order to see 10 go back on. See which of the two works out for you better there.
 
I'm basiclly using them all... so far i'm just switching between them when i get bored from one then i go to the next one and all over again... basiclly they got all the options that i need for a video to be able to play on my computer.
 
I have used for that past couple years (?) Media player classic. Never had a problem. That WMP didn't do crap, just a deadweight imo.
 
I've never actually had any problems with WMP 11 in Vista or 10 in XP. It was when first allowing that to update itself to 11 where some problems came up. WMP 9 however practically required you go out and locate this or that codec for various video file types. That was a boat anchor when seeing 10 arrive.
 
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