WOF: What's your favorite media player and why?

'The KMPlayer' is hands down the best for .avi and .mkv playback.

and it's the little things that make it solid. VLC can't touch KMPlayer if you ask me.

i love the kmplayer. i use it basically for video,it handles every format. i use windows media player for music

VLC Media Player (VLAN) - it just works. I had a dalliance with Divx Player (the new one is nice), but they lost me when a minor upgrade killed some required codecs.

Windows Media Player - too much screen junk.

Quicktime - too slow.

MPC HC player for video with klite codec installed. Foobar for music.

Lets hear it for open source Songbird. I used it since it came out and only recently learned how to use its playlist.

1 word...
MPC-HC

KMPlayer 'cause I really like the interface

Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre for encrypted and unencrypted Blu-Ray Disc
Media Player Classic Home Cinema for video, mkv, avi, mp4
Foobar2000 for mp3, flac, ogg, podcasts and radio
Spotify for everything music

iTunes for music, because I have an iPod, and usually VLC for movies.

Windows Media Player, but I rarely used it, because I use my DVD player with my pendrive to play any music or videos, most of times. So, there's no good reason to used, but nor there is to use any other player.

I use media player classic to watch all my videos because it's the only one so far that has been able to play every single format I throw at it. I just got sick of switching programs every time the one I was using couldn't play the new format the video was in.

I am amazed at how few people from here use GOM Player, I found it when I had my PB S18p (7" touchscreen with a AMD Geode LX800 proc, it was a notebook yet they were not known as netbooks) and it was the one that worked best under such low specs, was able to play MP4 a bit slugish... but played!

Since then GOM and only GOM, for music iTunes I know it's a bit bulky, but helps a lot to mantain music organized through the disk.

XBMC was the best for DVD movies, but since 9.03 that program took a dive... In Linux there is no pure Debian release it is a Ubuntu mashup and does not work well outside of a Ubuntu Box... Sad day XBMC chose to make it almost a closed for package for one Linux Distro...

SMPlayer is great in WinXP & Linux. A front end for Mplayer and this is the best way to install this jack or all trades video software...

VLC, there are many features that are not well documented about this amazing software, some users call it light weight software, but if you take the time to search out the tools you will discover it is multifaceted software...

Amarok, and Kaffeen are the two music players, I was using Songbird, but the Linux support seemed to disappear in a Microsoft operating system this software is still OK.. Atunes works decently in the Microsoft arena, but needs better functionality for Linux use...

Winamp for music, KMplayer for everything else

windows media player on windows 7

I mostly use AIMP2 for audio playback, and sometimes use Winamp for its customization, the advanced Media Library, and awesome visualizations.

For video, its Media Player Classic with ffdshow at the back-end with the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. There's nothing compared to this. Occasionally, I like to use Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 with TruTheater effects enabled - even this looks gorgeous, though Matroska files are tough to handle for P-DVD.

foobar2000 for music because it's excellent and VLC for video since it's "good enough" and plays everything without hassle.

Jet Audio, Media player ome Cinema the KM layer

I like to use a variety of Windows Media Player, and I use VLC player for all my dvds.

GOM FOREVER!.The World's Best Media Player.