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I can't decide what Codec pack to get. What are you all using?

And I use MPC for watching schtuff

Commie codec pack

All you need, IME.

Media Player Classic is lovely.

VLC isn't as painful to use as it used to be, and has lots of great features if you can find out how to make them work. I keep it as a backup.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Commie codec pack

This, mostly. It plays silly buggers without fettling on some of the more random stuff I've dredged up from the internets but generally has everything shiny and happy straight from the get go.

I use the Homecinema variant of MPC. It's mostly the same, but it adds things like video decode acceleration and such.

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/index.html

As for codecs, CCCP or ffdshow-tryouts are good.

I think CCCP has the Homecinema version of MPC, not sure how often they update MPC as the one in cccp is still from last year.

I also use the CCCP pack.

However, I'm switching from MPC to VLC as my main video player, it's not as good for dvd's I find, but works well and I love the extended volume contol of 0 to 200%, as I don't like fiddling with my main volume all the time.

Used to use the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but switched to VLC a while ago.

buzzmong wrote:I love the extended volume contol of 0 to 200%, as I don't like fiddling with my main volume all the time.

It can go all the way up to 400% if you use the mouse wheel, I kinda like that since 24 and House tends to be a little quiet even on 200%.

That's handy to know, cheers Bubbles!

I used to swear by MPC but VLC has superseded it as my main video player. Especially now I'm using a Mac. It just works without faffing.

Media Player Classic is the best media player codec collection you've ever seen.
As long as the gui doesn't matter it still the best app for multimedia.
I hope that someone could redeveloped the media player classic for visualizations and skins like windows media player.


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I almost deleted him for that alone this morning.