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Bob Adkins said:
I like ZoomPlayer, but it's buggy. Try Media Player Classic. You'll like it.
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I have tried Media Player Classic with Real Alternative codecs, ended
up removing it and going back to Real Player G2 since I couldn't get
all the Real Media streaming done with it. And I didn't like the user
interface of Media Player Classic, way too boring and lacks features.

I really like Zoom Player, it small and nice freeware video player.
It has never been buggy in my hands, works like a charm, with good
user interface and enough features for my needs. I know it handels
few different formats including wav/mp3, but I use it for watching
downloaded videos in avi/mpeg format.
Pegasus...Too big, excessively busy GUI, menus running amok.
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On the Windows it's my favorite mail client. It has so much features
that it makes big, busy GUI and menus running wild. But that's just
what I need, a lot of features to do the things I like from my mail
client. And I also love it's powerful ability to filter spam.
IrfanView and XN View try to do everything in the world, and I have
no classification for them.
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I love InfranView, it's so nice tool to check out all those picture
files on the hard disk. Does it fast and simple, just what I need...
And XNView has support for huge amount of file formats, few of them
are very hard to find elsewhere. That's why it's a tool you can't
live without.
 
Bob said:
Thumbs.db are tiny. 32k to be exact.
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No they are not it depends on how many pictures you have in the
directory. I can't stand windows shiting all over my directories
Slow View is crap you cant move pictures to directories .. so no great
sortin is available.
 
I love InfranView, it's so nice tool to check out all those picture
files on the hard disk. Does it fast and simple, just what I need...
And XNView has support for huge amount of file formats, few of them
are very hard to find elsewhere. That's why it's a tool you can't
live without.
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I like IrfanView and XNView too. I just don't know what they are.

Bob
 
Tiger said:
Have you tried P3doExplorer?

http://lcrepiliere.free.fr/softp3do.html
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Not sure if it's possible in that program (been a while since I used
it) but IMHO, the actual image viewing should be in a separate window
which is totally dedicated to the image (with the exception of a menu
bar which you should be able to turn on and off.) This is to minimize
the need to scroll around. Both Irfanview and XnView allow this. Also,
their way of equalizing the thumbnails is very nice.
 
I told you b4 with explorer you cant set thumbnail sizes or the preview
size
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You can set the icon size in WinXP, however I don't know about 2000 or ME. I
keep mine at 96, but the range is 32-256 pixels.

Bob
 
Hy,
I agree it is an excellent freeware program. Unfortunately, there can
be only 1 best picture viewer, and I don't believe XNView is it. Is
there another category I can put it in?
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maybe your biggest problem is that you're cataloging categories
are too static to reflect the little difference. I use Irfan as
as fast, customizeable picture viewer, Photoshop for editing/
composing (OT here) and XnView for managing, mass converting,
HTML galleries and so on. Have yu tried the batch features?
The command line tool? Too bad...

By the way, what are the massive bugs you told about in earlier
mails? And what formats are supported by Windows Explorer in which
version of the operating system it comes with? (So is it freeware
to owners of earlier versions of Windows?)

Regards,
Thorsten
 
By the way, what are the massive bugs you told about in earlier
mails?
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Do you use XP?

Try the editing feature in XNView. Edit a 1280x1024 JPEG. Use the hue and
saturation or redeye feature. It's so slow that I mistook it for a crash.
The icons disappear, and reappear when you run your mouse over the menu bar.
Only a re-start of XNView restores the icons. This program does a lot of
things, but it does nothing really well.
And what formats are supported by Windows Explorer in which
version of the operating system it comes with? (So is it freeware
to owners of earlier versions of Windows?)
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I honestly don't know.

Bob
 
Um, image viewers ?

To plonk or not to plonk...
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Hey! Don't plonk me! :-)

Think about this for a minute:

I bet 75% of the code in XNView, IrfanView, and SlowView goes to editing
features and playing movies and music. Since more code is devoted to movie
playing, shouldn't they be called movie players?

Anyway, there are far better Freeware apps to do photo editing and playing
movies and MP3's.

Remember, I lean toward compact programs that do basically one thing, and do
it very well. I try to stay away from programs that have a ton of uses, and
don't really do any of them well.

Bob
 
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