Alternate movie player [Archive]

Undeadlord

05-31-2001, 04:40 AM

Does anyone know of a good movie player for Win98 besides Windows Media Player. My player constantly locks up and crahses my entire system. So are there any other players available? I have tried reinstalling Media Player and my DirectX too. Nothing helps.
So if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it.

Undeadlord

RayH

05-31-2001, 05:23 AM

I use WMP to play a lot of commercial VCDs. But on ocassion, I have to use my DVD Player in my computer. Which version of WMP are you using?

Global DIVX is also a good player.

Bsdboy

05-31-2001, 06:54 AM

Why not BsPlayer: http://bsplayer.cjb.net/

Bsdboy

Undeadlord

05-31-2001, 08:00 AM

I am using the latest WMP from Microsfot's page. I beleive its WMP 8? although I could be misktaken. I will have to true that player bsdboy when I get home tongiht. BTW I am playing mostly mpg's and avi's with the player. Anyone have any idea why it be acting so strangely?

Undeadlord

HomeYield

05-31-2001, 09:06 AM

There's always realplayer or quicktime, realplayer kinda cool but quicktime is rarely used. I know realplayer plays both mpg's and avi's but I don't know about quicktime's compatibilty issues.

RobRich

05-31-2001, 11:16 AM

I use QuickTime Pro for most movie viewing, even though the interface could use some serious updating. It may not be the most visually appealing offering, but the stability and compatbility has always proven superb for the majority of my A/V work.

Robert Richmond

vintron

05-31-2001, 01:20 PM

i'll strongly suggest BSPlayer

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif that's not a joke... the BS part.... believe me........ the name doesn't do justice to the product. It uses very low resources compared to WMP

it's located at bsplayer.cjb.net

GroundZero3

05-31-2001, 04:39 PM

There's always realplayer or quicktime, realplayer kinda cool but quicktime is rarely used. I know realplayer plays both mpg's and avi's but I don't know about quicktime's compatibilty issues.

NO NO NO NO!!! Realplayer is even worse than media player!! Oh yeah i believe Gdivx can only play Dvix files also. try out BsPlayer and post how it does!

Jason

big_block_buick

05-31-2001, 05:05 PM

i use wmp7 only for new file types that wont play on others..media player v 6.4 is the best...or irfanview with the plug ins will play just about anything....

RayH

06-01-2001, 05:38 AM

Global DiVX will play all types of VCDs. For me, it's a pain because I have to change screen resolutions.

Mostly WMP 7.0 does just fine. I won't move to any higher because of "Digital Rights Management" decoders in the later versions.

But sometimes poor encoding won't allow VCDs to play on a pc or stand alone.

By-tor & the Snow Dog

06-01-2001, 05:54 AM

Well, I use Irfan View. You download the plug-ins and there you go. Matter of fact, I use 98lite to remove windows media player and then just use Irfan View to view pics, movies etc., and Ultra Player for audio.

Have a good one.

By-Tor

Kuasimodem

06-01-2001, 08:48 AM

I'm using the media player that came with my Radeon card for everything, even audio files.

It's compatible with everything and I think it uses the video cards hardware for playing vid files, 'cause it uses almost no resources and has better pic quality than any other player.

Curt

Undeadlord

06-01-2001, 08:56 AM

Really, I just bought a new Radeon card, I mine comes with that software I will have to give it a try.
I tried the bsdsoftware. Its not bad, I like the interface of WMP more. I will give Irfan view a try tonight to see if I like it. Then if I don't .. its back to WMP 7.0 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Undeadlord