What's your default Video Player?

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.20977 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (November 6, 2019) (PortableApps.com)

 

Potplayer v.191211 (21093.0) (December 11, 2019) is out:

http://potplayer.daum.net/?lang=en

 

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.21097 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (December 18, 2019) (PortableApps.com)

 

I use Nova Player on all of my Android devices.

 

MPC-HC v1.9.0 Released!!
DARK THEME IS FINISHED

DOWNLOAD:
https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

 

Mpc-hc64 and KMPlayer!

I prefer the former but after leaving it run overnight with multiple hours running there must be some memory leak since it slows all other programs down to a near crawl. A simple restart flushes the buffer and frees that up again but it is a slight annoyance which isn't much.

KMPlayer doesn't exhibit that same behavior on my 8 systems. No 10 here.

 

MPC-HC v1.9.1

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

 

VLC store app as default just to have something other than M$ players, but it's crappy. I find SMPlayer works best for large videos on my 15" laptop because the controls don't disappear like VLC's do. I use the regular VLC player for smaller videos and for music files.

 

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.21125 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (February 12, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.21126 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (February 27, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

A short time ago I changed from GOM Player to SMPlayer as my standard player.

The main reasons:
- SMPlayer has a very nice and very well configurable user interface.
- I realized that files open more quickly than with GOM Player.
- The access to the subtitles of a DVD is one step quicker than with GOM Player.

Nevertheless GOM Player remains important for me concerning the regular playback of DVDs - for two reasons:
- GOM Player is (almost?) the only media player I have tested who is reliably capable of playing a DVD from the last point where I had stopped playing (resume function). This function works perfectly. Whereas e.g. the SMPlayer is completely unsuitable for such a purpose (you cannot even set bookmarks in a DVD). And not even the VLC player is able to offer a resume function that really works. (You can do a workaround with bookmarks but this is no comfortable solution.)
- Sometimes (not always) it is necessary or at least useful to have access to the menu of a DVD. This is not possible with SMPlayer but with GOM Player (as with most of the other players I assume).

 

Out PotPlayer v.200317 (March 17, 2020)

http://potplayer.daum.net/?lang=en

 

VLC hasn't been updated in ages. I think it's dead.

 

I wouldn't consider it as dead.
VLC - Last update: August 2019 (7 months ago)

 

The issue I'm having with it since a while is some videos they appear to have like boxy pixels randomly especially when I move between parts of the video to another part. Doesn't ever happen with MPC-HC or Splash player so I know it's not the video.

 

Thanks, didn't bother to check but I will post the issue there.

 

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.21147 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (March 18, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

Till last January, on Windows, I used mostly VLC media player, so that was my default player.
However, VLC media player doesn't play Disney/Pixar DVDs correctly. Disney/Pixar DVDs have a particularly notorious protection, on some media players the chapter/scene order is messed up because of Disney/Pixar's DVD protection.
In my experience, on Windows, Disney/Pixar DVDs played correctly only in MPC-BE, MPC-HC and Windows Media Player, not in VLC media player, and not in SMPlayer (I never tried Pot Player).

Last January, I migrated to Kubuntu. Like on Windows, I use mostly VLC media player, it's my default player.
And like on Windows, VLC media player doesn't play Disney/Pixar DVDs correctly. I had to find an alternative for Kubuntu that plays Disney/Pixar DVDs correctly.
Apart from VLC media player, I tried SMPlayer, Dragon Player, Kaffeine and finally Kodi. I tested playing my Wall-E Disney/Pixar DVD with its notorious protection.

SMPlayer did not play the DVD correctly. Same as with VLC media player, the chapter/scene order was messed up.
Dragon Player didn't play the DVD at all, for some reason.
Kaffeine was able to play Disney/Pixar's Wall-E DVD. It played the correct chapter/scene order, although with eye-watering rendering errors and the playback quality wasn't very good anyhow.
Finally, I tried Kodi (media player/ media center/ entertainment center) on Kubuntu.
That was much better! Kodi played my Disney/Pixar Wall-E DVD perfectly! Correct chapter/scene order, with no rendering errors, and in perfect quality. So I found my player for Disney/Pixar DVDs on Kubuntu.

(First posted in the Linux for beginners thread.)

 

PotPlayer Portable 1.7.21212 (hardware enhanced media player) Released (May 14, 2020) (PortableApps.com)

 

I have been using MPC-HC for years, but seems it has got a problem playing WebM vidoes that I download from Instagram. It can play them, but fails to repeat them again. And strangely enough MPC-BE crashes on my system. So seems I need to look for a new player, perhaps VLC.

 

try mpc-be portable by portableapps.com.

 

Thanks will check it out. And BTW, a small correction, it's not WebM but MP4 videos that MPC-HC can't repeat correctly. Too bad because it's a pretty good player.