Anyone stupid enough to still be using Windows (inb4 BUT MUH OFFICE REQUI- fuck your office.) deserves it.
Forgot it existed
I just use VLC and uninstall everything else when I have to use Windows.
I try to get media player classic after I install windows. At least the latest supported incarnation.
I love VLC as a concept but the interface never gelled with me.
Although these days I’m more into Linux. Fedora FTW
VLC runs even better on Linux haha, but there’s a few good open source players at this point.
I personally like MPV
MPC-BE is for you my friend.
It’s not that bad, ram is abundant and plentiful right now so we should try and utilise even more of it on a media player.
That’s the one thing windows is good at. Using system resources senselessly
Someone should put down some traffic cones to direct people to a decent media player.
We should hire some penguins to direct them to a decent OS.
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[Tux Cart intensifies]
now I have Mario carts race start sounds in my head, thanks
Now I have a penguin with a cone on its head
mpc-hc-clsid2 is a wonderful option designed after the real legacy windows media player, not the bubbly piece of junk.
And with a name that just rolls off the tongue, too.
I just think of it as Media Player Classic or MPC. It’s a “3rd gen” open source project. I’ve been using it since it was just MPC. Then MPC Home Cinema added features and more support. And around 2020 Clsid2 took over development when the HC team called it quits.
Huh, didn’t know mpc-hc called it quits. I should move to the new thing… Though TBF I got mine bundled with k-lite media codec pack.
this for video, and foobar2000 for music.
It’s unfathomable to me that anyone would use this instead of VLC.
Most people just use whatever their computer came with and don’t think about it, and are not savvy enough to consider that there might be other options.
For mp3s, I’m still kicking the llamas ass with my beloved winamp… VLC for everything else though.
I think winamp was my first experience with enshitification. I wonder if I’m overlooking other notable examples from that era.
I tried using VLC but i couldn’t get to work properly or better say i couldn’t set it up to work like GOM player that i used for years before it became ad riddled garbage, but i did find MPC-HC and it was functionally the same just without the ads.
To expand what VLC was missing, it was the setting to play the whole folder and to remember where it stopped when i closed it, it might be me that was too stupid to find the setting but with MPC-HC i found the settings immediately and set it up to work as i wanted.
Push you to a modern OS*
If the old one still works perfectly fine, why do we need a more “modern” one. Why are we not given the choice? Maybe I don’t want the extra “features” (probably some ai crap)
mpv my beloved
Why would anyone be using windows media player?
Sometimes people just use what’s pre-installed. The last time I used Windows Media Player was in Vista. It was fine though.
100mb vs 300mb.
yeah, but who cares, ram is cheap.
- posted from 2024
Noooo I use Legacy Media Player to keep the screen from turning off on my work computer.
Is presentationsettings.exe or PowerPoint available to you?
Use Media Player Classic instead. It is still being maintained.
