Lightest media player for xp

[ramborums]

HI,

Which would be the lightest plain vanilla media player for xp? i intend to play music through the day while am working and obviously i want to spend minimum resources to be used for this.

Any recommendations please?

Thanks
Ramesh

[Kiran.dks]

Stick to Windows Media Player. It's the best one out there.

[Choto Cheeta]

Windows Media Player Classic ?????

x:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe

??

Try this one ???

[Third Eye]

Media Player Classic is the lightest

[Quiz_Master]

Media Player Classic (Not the default one, I am talking about the one which comes with Klite codec pack.).
You can get it here...
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=84358

[s18000rpm]

VLC Media Player, its not only light, but you can play almost all types of audio/video formats (no codecs needed) & also u can put it in a USB pen drive & use it.

[kaustav_geek]

Media Player Classic (The Open Source buddy ) is the light

VLC is a light as in it doesn't need installation of external codecs as it emulates them.... However, its buggy at times..... Its portable(system independent ) .... In short VLCs pros outweigh its cons...

[janitha]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

VLC Media Player, its not only light, but you can play almost all types of audio/video formats (no codecs needed) & also u can put it in a USB pen drive & use it.

Pl elaborate.

[Lucky_star]

Try freeware: Billy
Its a very very lightweight media player. It itself is less than 1 MB and while running it uses less than 3 MB Ram. It uses system decoders for playing media files.

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by janitha

Pl elaborate.

its a portable s/w.

just copy & paste the VLC Media Player install folder (from PC) to a pen drive.

[janitha]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

its a portable s/w.

just copy & paste the VLC Media Player install folder (from PC) to a pen drive.

What is the advantage in doing so? For playing a media file we will still need the PC. The VLC file can be kept in the pc and it even doesn't need installation. Tell me if I am wrong.

[BBThumbHealer]

its got to be VLC

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by janitha

What is the advantage in doing so? For playing a media file we will still need the PC. The VLC file can be kept in the pc and it even doesn't need installation. Tell me if I am wrong.

you didint get it.

suppose if you use sum1 else's PC, will you Install VLC on it just to play some song/video? NO, u (i'll ) use VLC thru Pen Drive.

[janitha]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

you didint get it.

suppose if you use sum1 else's PC, will you Install VLC on it just to play some song/video? NO, u (i'll ) use VLC thru Pen Drive.

Yes, thanks.

[Choto Cheeta]

For some on else PC i would use the player which he/she is using

but yeah, Portable option is a very useful option

[s18000rpm]

^wat if the sum1 else's PC doesnt have Codec pack installed

how will you play divx...format

[Choto Cheeta]

for argument, if some one else's PC doesnt have codec pack instaled, chances are that he/she never needed it and therefore there is such xvid or divx file is present there if the file is their then some one else's just dont keep them, then they do play them with some thing that's what i would use then

[gxsaurav]

Simple MP for Music Playeback

VLC Player for Video playback.

If you are not looking for that light then use WMP with Codecs

[kaustav_geek]

@ Choto Cheeta
Umm... Not entirely..

What If you brought a DivX movie yourself so that you could watch it at your friend's place ??? What then??

^wat if the sum1 else's PC doesnt have Codec pack installed

how will you play divx...format

I had trouble running DivX movies on VLC.... Did any of you face any problems........ ?

[Faun]

Originally Posted by Lucky_star

Try freeware: Billy
Its a very very lightweight media player. It itself is less than 1 MB and while running it uses less than 3 MB Ram. It uses system decoders for playing media files.

Quite good for audio

[krates]

Thoosje Sidebar Media Player

[ramborums]

Thanks very much for all the inputs provided in this thread.

Going by the majority vote, I first tried the Classic Media player. It worked fine. But didnt quite find it much lighter than WMP. Also it didnt seem to have the context menu feature, something which i really need. I just right click on the folder in explorer and let it play.

Also tried VLC 0.8.6, found it lighter than Classic MP. But the sound was worse than pathetic playing WMA and even some MP3s.

Finally i got to Quintessential MP. This seems to be really fit my bill. Simple, got the basic decoders i need, got context menu and sounds good enough too.

just thought i d share that.

Thanks
Ramesh

[chesss]

MPLAyER!! the best media player in existence!

[sandeepk]

Yes use mplayer it is very light weight and also standalone.

[~Phenom~]

VLC... The Best One Can Get.

[47shailesh]

Originally Posted by Lucky_star

Try freeware: Billy

It's only Audio palyer that supports very less formats even rm is not supported by it..

Mplayer rocks..

[coolendra]

mplayer2 wud be topping my list of portable players..!!

[setharsh]

try vlc media player

its very light nd u dont need to install any codecs seperately to play different media files....it supports virtually all the audio/video formats..