Let me guess for 99% of you it’s windows media player. If you answered true to this then you are missing out, for its big size doesn’t match its performance. The most basic video file format found on the internet is AVI, if you are using wmp dont click on it since all you will get is sound and an error message unless you have the proper codecs installed, and dont even think of forwarding while watching a big video clip, when it comes to features well there are none to talk off.
Do you feel like trying something different try VLC it is the only media player to play some rare video formats “off the box”, now if ever there was a versatile player this is it will play nearly everything you throw at it partially dowloaded, damaged, incomplete files just to
mention a few, want to stream something over the network “i love this feature” it will do it, save to different format! done in a click. I could go on all day about it, there is a wiki if you want to read more about it. Needless to say it’s more than a year since the last time i used the windows media player on my system and am thinking of uninstalling it since it’s never used. The ball is in your court.
The VideoLan project.