The player can bookmark a certain point in time on a piece of audio or video. You can name that point and see a thumbnail of it. A chevron corresponding to that bookmark appears on the seek bar. You can jump to it by right-clicking on or after it. These bookmarks can be exported and used by editing tool to make chapter files.
Forget using the mouse with it. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to quickly jump forward and backward (with different jump sizes from 15 minutes to one frame), sync audio and subtitles, resize the player, center the player, close the file, play, pause and toggle full screen.
From having albums that mere list of whatever font size you prefer to multiple lines detailed lines with thumbnails, from only read playlist to real-time folder scan assigning albums and easy navigation/management of album tabs in playlist.
the only really bad thing with this player is its management of clutter bookmark info of already erased/moved media that is kept in registry/ini files and are not erased or overwritten by default, going one by one is not worth it but with heavy use it bloats to 100 mb files that can take 2 minutes to exit/save changes, where the controls freeze and interfase is unusable until process done
It supports a large number of the most popular subtitle formats (although not all of them; there is just too many of them!) and can fine-tune how they are displayed. Unique to this player is the ability to align subtitles or force them off the video frame, into an added black margin. If you play a 16:9 or anamorphic video on a 16:10, you have a black margin anyway. Why not use it?
The only video player that doesn't feel like a glorified mechanical projector. It isn't perfect but PotPlayer tries to be MS Word while every other video player is perfectly content emulating Notepad.
The user interface is mainly based on a massive context menu and could be difficult to navigate before you get a hang of it. Translation is poor (it was originally Korean). Dialog boxes can sometimes be hidden behind the player, although issuing another order to invoke them would bring them back to view.
Video renders can be changed, but how many people know what a video render is? Surely, not many know the difference between Madshi, VMR, EVR, Direct3D, OpenGL or Haali renderer. This isn't ipso facto a con. But if you tamper with those settings by sheer accident, you might experience behavior that you cannot explain. Fortunately, there is a factory reset button and the ability to back up settings before altering them.
The minimal interface comes at the cost of beginner-friendliness. You need to know keyboard shortcuts by heart, settings are set in text files, right-clicking won't bring up a menu, etc.; But: Versions with GUI exist and are seperately downloadable.
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
If it's a video or audio file then chances are VLC can play it. Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package.
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
Whatever Video Module Output on VLC produce always an image that is blurried, softer and harsher respect to Direct Show Players + EVR or madVR video renderer (see MPC-HC or Pot Player). Idem for the audio engine; harsh and compressed sound signature, poor volume control, like a veil on the sound. Poor usability. No excuses.
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
VLC adds several options to Windows Shell's context menu for files. These options are impossible to remove without a third-party utility and slow down Windows Shell.
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
Recent version got a bit bulkier than they were some years ago. If things get to much, use one of the older versions, they play mp4 and mkv just fine. Also needs some firewall tweaking to get rid of occasional ads in the free version.
In contrast to some other popular players out there, the GOM Player skin engine really works out. Skins on GOM Player feel quite natural and everything is still very responsive. So even skins in use, the whole player doesn't feel bloated.
Something I did not encounter often is the fact, that GOM Player has some magic trick up its sleeve. It mostly allows to rename the currently playing files and sometimes I can even move them. I cannot really tell how that works, but it does (playing from UNC network paths here (ntfs, windows)).
Whether it's switching audio channels, aspect ratio, playback size. All can be done easily via context menu or keyboard shortcuts or even mouse clicks if configured.
Windows is no longer supported since 7 January 2016. Development of this product has been stunted since 29 April 2005 anyway. New features added since then have been insignificant and very difficult to spot. As such, it does not live up to the modern standards of video playback.
QuickTime comes with the ability to encode video using Apple's implementation of MPEG-4 Part 2 (aka MPEG-4 Visual) or MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264). These encoders were once the fastest in the market. But speed came at the cost of low quality. The competitors (e.g. DivX, DivX Plus, x264, ffmpeg, Xvid) all produce higher quality. In addition, since 2005, computers have become more powerful, so encoding speed is no longer a concern.
Before being discontinued, it was possible to unlock QuickTime's recording and editing features by purchasing a QuickTime Pro license for 29.99$. Similar to VLC media player, QuickTime Pro can record video and audio directly from microphone, FireWire camcorder and iSight camera. Non-linear video editing, (e.g. cutting, trimming, resizing, flipping, or rotating video frames) is possible.
Windows Media Player is no longer updated to new versions since the release of Windows 7. The latest version of Windows Media Player is Windows Media Player 12 (released in July 2009); it is still bundled in Windows 8 and above.