Can someone recommend a good video player?
 

Windows Media Player Series 9 seems to love to lock up when I close a video, then try to play another video afterward. I'm tired of formatting, so I'm just going to avoid the problem altogether. Can someone recommend a good video player that's free to download? It would be nice to have a player that lets me play Xvid 1.0 and Divx 5.x.x files. Thanks.

One word: Winamp

I hate Winamp. HATE Winamp.

Any other ideas?

Did you try the DivX player? It's pretty good.

WHAT??? You dare speak of the God of llamas in an unholy way?? You must be burned at the stake!

Yeah, okay, I'll give that a shot for a while and see how I like it.

Yeah, DivX rocks. Decent interface as well.

Divx player rocks! Wow, this is really good...I had it on my computer and I had NO idea it was any good.

Winamp's better. :|

Okay, I just realized that it only plays HALF of the videos I own. Great...

EDIT: Kenai, you were right. Winamp plays everything except .vob files, but that's okay, neither did Windows Media Player. Xvid 1.0 files have sporatic frame rates, but that's fine.

iTunes + DivX > Winamp

What's a .vob file? :-?

Um, Very Old Briefcase? :-?

I have no idea.

It's a data file for a DVD. When you rip a DVD to your computer, that's the file type that comes up.

Oh. Winamp doesn't play those?


Edit: I see. I opened a copy of one of the TMNT dvds and it wont play in Winamp. :cry:

While I don't think it does .vob, I recommend BSPlayer. It has really good subtitle support, if you watch a lot of foreign movies.

BSPlayer Website

Div X is good, and Winamp, I suppose, but Div closes up sometimes too.