media player wanted

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L.D.

Need good free media player to play avi files. I have tried real player
and windows media and neither will
 
I'm interested in this one. Does it have do bookmarks when watching
videos? I looked on the site, but saw nothing about it.
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To be honest I don't know. I only got it to use instead of using Real
Player.

I've had it a year now and still havn't used it enough to get to the
bottom of all it's features.

The one option I have found that might be of interest is the ability
to restart viewing at the last position reached.

sorry I couldn't be of more help.
 
dkg_ctc said:
They will play AVIs, you just need the correct codecs. Try FFDShow

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/11/2/7/11-2-7-13.shtml
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Thanks foe RE:
2 recommendations and a third that said any will work with the correct
codecs. Will either of the 2 recommendations work with out having to
install any updates, plugins, etc. or those codecs (what ever they are)
from the getgo.
How do I uninstall the WMP9? It isn't in the add/remove programs and no
uninstall to click any place that I can find.
 
Rincewind said:
To be honest I don't know. I only got it to use instead of using Real
Player.

I've had it a year now and still havn't used it enough to get to the
bottom of all it's features.

The one option I have found that might be of interest is the ability
to restart viewing at the last position reached.

sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Actually, that *is* a help. Thanks.
 
Thanks foe RE:
2 recommendations and a third that said any will work with the correct
codecs. Will either of the 2 recommendations work with out having to
install any updates, plugins, etc. or those codecs (what ever they are)
from the getgo.
How do I uninstall the WMP9? It isn't in the add/remove programs and no
uninstall to click any place that I can find.
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With any player you will need the codecs.

As far as I remember I didn't have to download anything extra to play
avi's, but I did have Real Player and QuickTime installed at that
time.

There are links to all the codecs you will need on the website.
 
Bill said:
small download? 11, 267,000 bytes?
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My dowmload was 6,377,789. MP9 which I couldn't make work is 13,951,112
and that is still a little larger than the 11,267,000 you say videolan
is. I'm no computer guro, all I can do is read in properties what size
it is, If that isn't right I'm sorry if I mislead anyone about small.
 
My dowmload was 6,377,789. MP9 which I couldn't make work is
13,951,112 and that is still a little larger than the 11,267,000
you say videolan is. I'm no computer guro, all I can do is read in
properties what size it is, If that isn't right I'm sorry if I
mislead anyone about small.
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Just to clarify, the Zip is 11,267,534 bytes, the installer is
6,377,789. (I know it sounds backwards, the installer being smaller,
but that's correct.)
 
Bill Day wrote:
My dowmload was 6,377,789. MP9 which I couldn't make work is 13,951,112
and that is still a little larger than the 11,267,000 you say videolan
is. I'm no computer guro, all I can do is read in properties what size
it is, If that isn't right I'm sorry if I mislead anyone about small.
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ok....I see the differences....(I am taking a look anyway--it seems like
a clever program..LOTS of arcane prefs in the video which I don't
understand yet.)
thanks for the find...
 
Zoom Player Standard:
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml
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This is my current personal favorite video player, but it doesn't play
some AVIs as well as...
BSPlayer: http://www.bsplayer.org/
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This is a good one as well, and one of the best at playing AVIs.
WMP sucks..
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*rest snipped*

The thing about WMP is that it's more than just a player, but it's a
media library, interfaces with portable devices, etc. As just a
player, I agree, it's not that great, but as a whole it's not bad at
all.
 
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