What video player do you use?

VLC really is the best in my opinion. It’s free, it plays almost anything; I use it all the time to play videos of various formats.

GOM. I’ve used VLC, and it’s played a couple videos GOM couldn’t, but that really only happens once in a blue moon. GOM, on the other hand, has tons and tons and tons of keyboard shortcuts, so that you can pause and unpause by hitting the spacebar, go back and forth and change the volume using the arrow keys, and change the contrast or brightness or speed or create a bookmark all using the keyboard instead of having to rely on the mouse. I’m not clear what VLC’s selling points are other than that it can play almost everything, which is a feature I don’t regularly need.

I use Media Player Classic:Home Cinema with the K-lite codec pack so I can read any format.

Unlike VLC, it actually runs on my systems (most of the systems I’ve had in the past didn’t like it), and that is a big plus! When I finally got VLC to run, I was so sorely disappointed that it had an intrusive UI, a lack of features, and was non-configurable.

Anything VLC claims to be able to do, MPC:HC actually can do, and more.

I love VLC.

@jerv you have a really good point with vlc being very striped down but for me, and it may just be my comp being a POS but media player bogs it down pretty badly so I like the super light weight programs

I ran MPC just fine on some pretty old boxes; ones that did bog with Windows Media Player. Do not confuse the two!

When I say “meager”, I mean “barely able to run WinXP”

I’m a VLC fan.