Good Audio and video programs for Vista?

Burning Organ

So I just had my first experience with windows media player and Vista... It was a blue screen of death. YAY!
So, now, I got to H/A for help on this issue. I want a good modest music player for when I'm playing CoV, and a good modest video player for videos and DVD's.
Thanks in advance.

iTunesIsEvil

For audio I'd suggest foobar 2000.

For video try Media Player Classic.

Normally I would NOT recommend a codec-pack because they're normally filled with spyware etc, but the Vista Codec Pack is actually really good, or so far it's been really great for me.

Rook

I'd definitely second the recommendation for MPC, it's a great little player. iTunes isn't terrible for audio, but that's about as much as I'm willing to recommend it.

I'd be slightly concerened about getting BSoDs from WMP though

LoneIgadzra

I dunno how it is in Vista, but the Combined Community Codec Pack is all I ever install. ZoomPlayer is awesome. Fairly lightweight, UI can be customized however you want. (MPC has some decidedly irritating settings that you can't change IMHO.)

Comes with no bloatware, conflicting software, or spyware.

iTunesIsEvil

LoneIgadzra wrote: »

MPC has some decidedly irritating settings that you can't change IMHO.

Such as? Just curious here, and always on the look-out for players that can do more.

Burning Organ

Thanks! I think that solves this thread.

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gneGne

LoneIgadzra wrote: »

I dunno how it is in Vista, but the Combined Community Codec Pack is all I ever install. ZoomPlayer is awesome. Fairly lightweight, UI can be customized however you want. (MPC has some decidedly irritating settings that you can't change IMHO.)

Comes with no bloatware, conflicting software, or spyware.

Co-sign, I've tried a few codec packs. This one is just great, everything I need.

LoneIgadzra

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

LoneIgadzra wrote: »

MPC has some decidedly irritating settings that you can't change IMHO.

Such as? Just curious here, and always on the look-out for players that can do more.

It's not a question of doing more, I just don't like the setup and you can't change it because it doesn't even have a preferences panel hardly. The main thing that gets me is clicking on the movie to pause and play. I find this very easy to do without having any intention of pausing or playing (accidentally that is). Maybe it's just I'm not used to it, but it catches me off guard. When I double-click on a video, I don't want anything unexpected to happen; I just want it to enter full screen mode, and I don't want to accidentally click the video while dragging the window around and have it play - especially if it's a bad time to be blasting sound from my computer.

Aside from that, I have the following expectations of a video player, many of which Windows Media Player fails at:

- Pause/play with space bar (pisses me off that there are still media players that buck this convention)
- Pop-up control bar that doesn't potentially cover subtitles in full screen mode (looking at you WMP)
- Double-click to enter/exit full screen (or something equally easy)
- Scroll wheel to seek/jog/shuttle (some players implement this, but set the scroll increment at like a minute, and so render the feature worthless, or some think using it to scale the window is somehow useful)

All of that can be set in ZoomPlayer. Not so much in others, and no player is perfect, to my mind, out of the box.