OT: .AVI player?

Ragnarok · #1 August 5th, 2005, 03:12 PM

Greetings,

Does anyone know of a good free .avi player? I can't seem to find any that don't come with spyware and crap in the install.

Thanks!

Fyron · #2 August 5th, 2005, 03:16 PM

Media Player Classic plays pretty much everything, including DVDs. Need to find codecs for more exotic formats, but then you have to do that with all media players anyways.

Timstone · #3 August 5th, 2005, 03:34 PM

How about this one, it can play almost everything. I've been using for about half a year now and I'm very satisfied with it. Only the fast forward function (place this "time indicator" on a random place along the time line) is a bit slow.

Ragnarok · #4 August 5th, 2005, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Imperator Fyron said:
Media Player Classic plays pretty much everything, including DVDs. Need to find codecs for more exotic formats, but then you have to do that with all media players anyways.

That is the problem I had with Media Player. I use it for pretty much everything but for some reason I cannot find codecs for .avi files. Perhaps I am just getting impatient when looking.

Thanks for the tips.

Timstone, I am downloading the player you suggested. Hopefully it does a good job. Thanks!

PvK · #5 August 5th, 2005, 07:06 PM

Timstone, I gave VideoLAN a try... in general it seemed likable, except I had a major problem with it in that it would not stop except to pause in the middle of a video. Open an image for example, and it opens and then POOF it closes the image. Play a video and it plays to the end and then goes and playes the next immediately. There is a setting in preferences to stop after each item, but it doesn't seem to actually have any effect.

PvK

Fyron · #6 August 5th, 2005, 09:50 PM

Gspot can identify the codecs used in nearly any movie file. It is then a relatively simple matter of downloading the codec with the help of search engine.

http://gspot.headbands.com/

VLC uses its own codecs, rather than the standard ones. This has its pros and cons. I find it to be a good player as well, but I personally prefer the general feel of MPC. Try them both and see what you like.

Timstone · #7 August 6th, 2005, 02:54 PM

I never watched pics with this player (it's a videoplayer, not a picture viewer...). As for the trouble with viewing several videos one after another. I don't do that (really I don't). When I use my DVD drive, I only watch one episode of Babylon 5, Star Trek, Star Gate of anything else per day. So again, I wouldn't know about this little error.
As for the codecs, like Fyron said, it has it's pros and cons. Just try it for a while and see if you like it or not.
Good luck and have fun with it!

This is truly the beauty of the internet you can ask advise about a certain program and if you don't like it, just just go ahead and try another. Truly amazing.

PvK · #8 August 6th, 2005, 05:03 PM

Yep. Looks good for some uses, but has some issues with some others. I saw some other glitches with some videos but those may be because of the codecs.

It does offer many advanced video tweaking settings, which might be useful.

Also the streaming video section looked like it might have some useful settings.

PvK

Fyron · #9 August 6th, 2005, 05:12 PM

Yeah, both MPC and VLC have many advanced tweaking features available.