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VLC tops our Media Player Survey

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief October 27, 2008 · 1 min read

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More than a third of the respondents in the last poll agreed that VLC is the most preferred media player. Windows Media Player came in at a close second.

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What’s actually more interesting is that the other third of those who sent in their feedback had other media players in mind. That’s on top of the 8 choices I put up.

There were media players recommended that I’ve only heard of the first time — GOM player and KM player. Interestingly enough, there were quite a number of people who are still loyal to Media Player Classic.

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48 Comments

carl · 15 years ago

im using MPC for 7 years now. From CCCP to the one developed by Gabest with KLite codec pack, i downloaded it directly from sourceforge.
I used ITunes, QT, WMP, GOM, VLC, DivX and WinAmp before.
It’s my generic media player for all! :D

IC DeaDPiPoL · 16 years ago

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is good now that it supports h.264 decoding via internal filter (VPDAU, FFMPEG-HT). Only needed to add vobsub for subtitle rendering and perhaps CoreAVC as an alternate h.264 decoder since it consumes less resources.

In GNU/Linux I prefer SMPlayer as a frontend for MPlayer which has the most GUI based customization options.

VLC IMO is useful for streams since I’ve had issues with its blocky video rendering and problematic subtitle rendering.

Scijoe21 · 16 years ago

VLC consumes small amount of system resources, one of the best, hands down.

modstar · 17 years ago

Media Player Classic would have easily beat them if it’s only in the poll. It’s got excellent screenshot maker too!

Yoga · 17 years ago

Anything that can play porn is good enough for me

Eleanor · 17 years ago

You are all saddos

Victor · 18 years ago

yes, VLC is much better than other media player, it can read almost any kind of video file.

mark · 18 years ago

Gom Player :) It’s user friendly and I like it’s features

caloisky · 18 years ago

i’m using bs player. it’s reliable, fast, and very user friendly

Jomark Osabel · 18 years ago

VLC rocks. One of the best media player out there. The osx version is far better than the built in mac media player.

andromayer · 18 years ago

i voted for ‘Other’. i used to use RealPlayer10(with 3gp upgrade) and/or quicktime, + powerdvd. but now, i am using KLite Codec with Media player classic as front end. i think all-in-one package na. light, regularly updated, and nost of all, opensource(free)

vaughn · 18 years ago

same here, i was talking about the “new” open-source MPC when i replied to the survey, not the actual “old” MPC :)

Eric · 18 years ago

GOM Player is a nice alternative too

JC John SESE-Cuneta · 18 years ago

Actually, Media Player Classic was born because people prefer the “old” Windows Media Player. Yes, MPC is that old.

Patrick · 18 years ago

Like the others, I was voting for the open source MPC and not the old WMP from MS. :)

Lawrence · 18 years ago

I used to love VLC too…but GOM seems to be a more capable all around video player.

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 18 years ago

Oh, I didn’t know about that. Was thinking of the old MPC.

Eizan · 18 years ago

Media Player Classic is not the old version of Microsoft’s WMP, Sir Abe. :) It’s a different software.

I, myself use it, because it’s lightweight and only provides what it should unlike other bloatwares.

online entrepreneur · 18 years ago

PowerDVD is better, I think.

felipe · 18 years ago

i love gom. very simple yet powerful.

calvin · 18 years ago

as well as storm codec. mpc rocks!

Techie · 18 years ago

It’s also the player that is commonly bundled with the codec packs like k-lite

cris · 18 years ago

above is correct.

Andre Marcelo-Tanner · 18 years ago

by media player classic we dont mean the old Microsoft Windows Media Player btw, MPC is a open source project that plays almost any video file and uses less resources than VLC.