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MPC + k-lite, since the dawn of ages. If it ain't broken, why fix it?
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Gom player works best for me for Tv Shows. The easy browser is awesome when i have my laptop connceted to my tv. also the automatic adding and sorting of episodes in the playlist. i don't think there is a feature i needed and didn't find on this thing..
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I used to always use VLC, but now I use XBMC. I love the library they make, and how easy it is to add network sources. I have all my movies etc on my stationary in my room, but I play it over the network with XBMC to the living room.
It can also play zip files containing .img or video files without having to extract it, which is sweet.
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GOM Player for me too! 
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Very surprised everyone isn't using media player classic...I was expecting a lot more votes for that.
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I use Media Player Classic as my secondary player. It's good, but I wouldn't call it the best. What annoys me the most about it is that you have to configure a lot of shortcuts by yourself... like the one responsible for zooming in or fast-forwarding the film with arrow keys.
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WMP for most videos but some i use VLC for. VLC is good but it got some flaws i believe.
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VLC for me it has never failed to play anything that I have thrown at it.
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GOM player, the best one
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WMPC HC! with CCCP!
And Rarfilesource.. Cant get better and I will never change!
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Have, at one time or another, tried most on the list, currently I use WMC-HC64 for most stuff and VLC for mkv files.
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I am shocked - so many people still use the behemoth Windows Media Player ...
I use PLEX on my TV, MacBook and iPad for all Movie/TV watching ... for single files it's MPlayerX or VLC
How anyone watches TV without a Library solution like Boxee, XBMC or PLEX is beyond me...
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Maybe we need an additional poll for a library solution.
I never used one, but I probably should as I watch all my stuff on my TV with a PC connected to it. I just never got to researching which one of the existing solutions is actually good for that ..
What do you guys think is best? Not for buying through it, but like for you know, already downloaded stuff 
Edit: I don't need to transcode stuff.
Ideally, the "library solution" will just scan my downloads folder, arrange the available episodes and slap a thumbnail or cover on them. Is this wishful thinking or does this exist now ?
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i use VLC and SMPlayer. SMPlayer has this neat feature that downloads subtitles for shows or movies. and i do watch many shows with english subtitles.
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santah wrote:
Maybe we need an additional poll for a library solution.
I never used one, but I probably should as I watch all my stuff on my TV with a PC connected to it. I just never got to researching which one of the existing solutions is actually good for that ..
What do you guys think is best? Not for buying through it, but like for you know, already downloaded stuff
Edit: I don't need to transcode stuff.
Ideally, the "library solution" will just scan my downloads folder, arrange the available episodes and slap a thumbnail or cover on them. Is this wishful thinking or does this exist now ?
Never tried to use my download folder as source list but i think xbmc would handle that aslong as the filenames is "within reasonable standard" not files that are named like tbbt704blablaba.
It will lookup the episodes against tvdb and download fanart and thumbnails etc
it also reads rar files so you never have to unrar them 
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Boxee works pretty well as a library. It scans continually designated folders and gets all show art and episode descriptions and subtitles from.. Somewhere. It's not foolproof though. For instance it doesn't recognize QI XL, only the regular version of QI, so I have to watch it through the file browser. But it does know most of the shows and even displays unwatched episodes in bold. Which is nice.
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I just open the downloads folder, clickity-click and boom! the file opens in VLC. Why would I need a library thing-a-ma-jig...
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44 2011-12-25 08:16:48 (edited by Quinlan 2011-12-25 09:07:19)
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mitah wrote:
I am shocked - so many people still use the behemoth Windows Media Player ...
We simply use it because it works. Contrary to the popular geeky beliefs (no pun intended, being kind of one myself), when you click on a video and it plays, that's what it is supposed to do. The notion that you must try every other players out there to find the one that matches your taste of the frame color around the movie is kind of pointless.
(Note that before, the stuff about codecs, etc was important and I did use MPC and some others in the past but since I'm on Win7 with the latest WMP, I never EVER had to download some fishy codec pack for the most common stuff. It just works.)
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How anyone watches TV without a Library solution like Boxee, XBMC or PLEX is beyond me...
As Daemonius said, click-click, watch. I don't have a flat 42+inches flat screen but I do have an ok 24" computer screen on wich I watch my favorite episodes when I get them. My old tube only serves as a decoration as I almost never turn it on. (Got a break-in last year, they didn't even bother to take it).
My video files are already arranged in their specific folders, I keep a few episodes back but after awhile, I delete the oldest episodes keeping only the last or 2 last. A library solution would only add another level of something I don't really need.
Sometimes, keeping things simple is not necessarily the worst way.
P.S. : For the record, I'm not ranting about the usage of a library solution or other players, etc. To each is own based on the usage. But not everybody need that stuff.
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I'm bit of OS hybrid but basically MPlayer is my faovurite and would dominate the world if they hadn't lost their developers. MKV support took to long but is still a damn good player. My favourite function is the arrow key rewind/forward that I haven't found in any other player that I've tried of same standard.
I like VLC also since they built a small player with codec built-in. I also like that it can play partially broken files. It does the job.
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Media Player Classic all the way. I like to keep it simple.
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I use GOM player anyone else using that one?
I usually use GOM player, it's so compterable and easy... but if something doesn't work on that or something I use VLC, that is why on those choices I chose VLC, was kinda surprised GOM wasn't there
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I wonder why GOM player was not included???
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saturo wrote:
I'm bit of OS hybrid but basically MPlayer is my faovurite and would dominate the world if they hadn't lost their developers. MKV support took to long but is still a damn good player. My favourite function is the arrow key rewind/forward that I haven't found in any other player that I've tried of same standard.
I like VLC also since they built a small player with codec built-in. I also like that it can play partially broken files. It does the job.
Gom player uses the arrow key rewind/fast forward. by default it's 10 sec but you can change that to whatever you want.
Seriously the option list on this program is endless..
I will try some of those library programs I read about though. Never really thought I needed one but I'll check it out nonetheless
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I use VLC when I watch stuff on the computer and XBMC in the living room.
I like the library, but the best part is never having to touch a mouse to watch a video.
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