There are hundreds of media players in the “web market” that claim to be the best media players available and mostly people have no issues in finding a right player for playing varied types of audio files. But, playing certain videos can be really painful.
The most preferred media players like GOM, WMP, Crystal Player, Media Player Classic and VLC are not only free, but they are very distinct from each other in terms of reliability, stability and the most importantly playback support.
As of today there is no media player capable of a “Standalone Playback Support”. I have tried and scrapped many of them and now i use a combination of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack + GOM Player + Crystal Player which provides a playback support for all types media files available. You first need to install K-Lite Mega Codec Pack followed by the above two players and you have an almost complete combination of media playback support.
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema
- Media Player Classic
- ffdshow
- DirectShow video decoding filters
- DirectShow audio decoding filters
- DirectShow audio parsers
- DirectShow source filters
- DirectShow subtitle filter
- Other filters
- VFW video codecs
- ACM audio codecs
- Real Alternative
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.5.1]
- GSpot Codec Information Appliance [version 2.70a]
- MediaInfo Lite [version 0.7.14]
- VobSubStrip [version 0.11]
- GraphStudio [version 0.3.1.0]
- Haali Muxer
- FourCC Changer
- Bitrate Calculator
- Full Windows Vista support
- Built-in MPEG4 decoder
- Skins
- Speed troubleshooting modes
- Multilingual support
- Multicolor on-screen controls and seeking-bar
- Subtitles
- External audio track support
- Playlists with bookmarks
- Image capturing
- Runtime help messages
- Runtime statistics & suggestions
- Aspect rate and audio/text skew correction
- Graphical ten band equalizer
- Video postprocessing
- Zooming, scrolling & panorama
- Supersampling
- Multisampling
- Video filters
- Audio filters
- Automatic codec downloader
- Native Crystal MPEG1/2 format support
- Native Crystal AVI format support
- Crystal MPEG1/2 video decoder
- Crystal AC3 multichannel audio decoder
- Codec Finder
- Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)
- Powerful Subtitle Support
- Convenient Playlist
- Support Different Media Types
- Screen Capture
- Customize brightness, contrast and saturation.
- Sharpen and add noise to your video.
- Try the audio equalizer.
- Repeat a section of your video with our A-B Repeat feature.
- Fast forward/rewind a few seconds using left/right keys.
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