I told you not to use 64kbps mp3!!
Just joking ;)

I agree, K-Lite with MPC-HC it's my one and only choice. After testing everything under the sun.
VLC is multi platform. You can't compete with Windows-only rivals in complex things like video. VLC comes with internal codecs.
Not an advantage in Windows but a blessing for Mac users which don't have a choice for video-player (Apple even bans VLC all they can). Specially for MKV or simply advanced MP4 files.

Now that I think of it, VLC has a better subtitle downloader. It can search by name or video file hash. Obviously not a game changer but very cool.

 

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you have to have the right power cord to hear it.

 

I just checked out MPC-HC and, you're right, it's great!
One thing I don't like about is that it doesn't seem to remember the size of the screen I have it set to. For instance, if I watch a video and increase the size of the viewing screen, the next time I watch a video, the size changes. And, if I watch the same video again (looping) it resized, too.

Do you know of a way to set PC-HC to remember the window position and size?

Thanks

 

Suprisingly, while randomly surfing for comparisons / performances between the two (VLC vs MPC-HC), I discovered that PotPlayer much more favored among gadget reviewers. It's like the best experiences, more options than what VLC has (something like that, they say). I haven't tested it myself but find it interesting to look for in the near future. ref: https://www.slant.co/topics/7820/versus/~potplayer_vs_vlc_vs_mpc-hc

https://www.quora.com/How-did-PotPlayer-surpass-VLC-Player-popularity-Is-it-that-good
https://potplayer.daum.net/

Potplayer Installation guide (and little commenting about when not to use VLC and use Potplayer):

Potplayer overall look and feel:

 

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daum potplayer is way better imo.
although vlc seems able to play nearly every codec there is.

 

I tried many players since 90's on at least 4 different PC systems + different Android phones. VLC is worse player i ever seen. I didnt try new version but it always have decoding, hardware acceleration, drop frame problems and it using more CPU than others. I was using SMPlayer on my old PC, its very lightweight but it didnt work well on new PC (cause of unsuported hardware acceleration) and switch to Potplayer. Potplayer is very good but it have some problems about TS files, generally it dont play with actual fps like 50-60, it shows as 25-30. That time i'm using MPC-HC, its another good player but it cant seek fast as Potplayer and it have less features than Potplayer. Other hand, surprisingly Windows 10's own Movies and TV player is good. It dont have any features, It wont play every files cause of unsupported audio codecs but its better than every player if subject is low CPU usage and fast seeking.

 

I don't know. You can tweak almost everything in MPC but I haven't tried that.
Try playing with the "View" menu Pan&Scan or Video Frame settings.

Well, I said better, not that MPC doesn't has one.

 

I was using KMPlayer when it came out and stopped using VLC. After that, PotPlayer which is based on KMPlayer arrived, it is CPU efficient version of KMPlayer. It became my go to media player. MPC-HC is my second player which I use in case PotPlayer doesn't work. I tried VLC once for every 5-6 months and always have to uninstall it. VLC v2 was outdated long ago. I will surely give VLC v3 a try about how efficiently it plays media and how well it play different formats.
For me Potplayer is still the king. Let's see what VLC v3 is capable of.

 

fans of MPC-HC should check out their homepage.
being discontinued it seems : O

forgot link: https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/

 

already there https://get.videolan.org/vlc/3.0.0/win64/vlc-3.0.0-win64.exe

 

It's also my main po... [cough], video player and it definitely swallows [cough] everything I spurt at it [cough].

 

i use MPV. No graphic glitches and very fast
https://mpv.io

 

seems like discontinued because of non-available developer. i'm offering catalogue of help to choose if anyone needed *(ACG player looks nice btw. much cleaner looking Windows 10 style theme.) : https://fossbytes.com/10-best-free-media-players-windows/

 

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Many thanks.

 

I tried VLC 3.0.0, its still same shit. It shows some videos corrupted or sometimes drop few frames, It cant use hardware acceleration (HW) with some x264/x265 encode settings. With HW Potplayer using %3 CPU for all files, VLC using %25 for some files. Other hand, when it using hardware acceleration its using %0.5-%2 CPU.

 

Yes, updates are occasional. But there is MPC-Black Edition, which is based on MPC-HC.

 

Now I understand all the fuss about MPC-BE. Part of it for sure for being a popular fork of the "dying" MPC-HC.

I'd say they'll switch when, discontinued or not, some MPC-HC fork features something important that the original doesn't.

 

For me it kind of reminds me something...
480p -> 44.1 Khz
720p -> 48 Khz
1080p -> 96 Khz
2K -> 192 Khz
4K -> 384 Khz
zillionK -> zillionx96 Khz