OT: What Is A Good

[Atrocities]

Thanks guys. Every time I fire up Real Player my pest patrol thingy starts to beep and doesn't stop beeping until I shut that invasive sony wannabe program off. So any player that doesn't attept to "gather" information "from" my PC and "send" it to "unknown" parties would be much preferred.

[Fyron]

Uninstall Real Player and Quicktime, then get the Real and Quicktime Alternatives on the free-codecs site. With these installed, you can play the movies in a general player, such as Media Player Classic. I think VLC is capable of using the codecs as well, but I am not sure since it tends to go against propriety and integrates its own codecs...

Personally, I think MPC is a better player than VLC. Try them both and see which you prefer. Both can even play DVDs, so you don't need any shoddy DVD programs (such as Cyberlink PowerDVD) either.