

A built-in video editor allows you to tweak your movies in a similar way to VLC”messing with their levels, using software tricks reducing noise, and warping the picture in quirky ways”and you can simply CTRL+V a URL into the open window to play videos from around the web (like YouTube). This free, Windows-only media player supports hardware acceleration for your videos and comes with a pretty clean UI that shouldn’t distract you from what you’re trying to watch. I confess, I’ve never used PotPlayer, but I’ve heard a ton about it. It’s lightweight, performance is fantastic with GPU acceleration support and overall just love the minimal interface.” It also has support for directly playing youtube URLs, so I’ve configured browser handler to open all youtube links from any apps to open in MPC-BE and I can watch youtube videos without opening different browser on second monitor or use browser add-on that open youtube in pop-up window.” Never had any issues handling almost any format whatsoever.

“I use MPC-BE with LAV filter configured as primary handler. Lifehacker reader DeadDuck123, who admittedly “hates VLC,” but “can’t say exactly why,” has a great setup for MPC: madVR because it can “downsample” HDR videos correctly* to my SDR monitor, which I guess is handy if I ever build a collection.” MPC-HC because of its simplicity and wide support of what it can play. “I use MPC-HC using madVR as the renderer. MPC-BE“a fork of both MPC and MPC-HC”is a strong, lightweight player with a sleek, seekbar preview (just like what you’d find on, say, YouTube.) Not to be deterred, yet another variant of Media Player Classic exists, and it’s being actively developed as of when we wrote this article. And that went well for quite some time, until this project fell by the wayside in mid-2017. But then, the open-source community lept to its feet and forged onward! A forked project, MPC-HC, was born. Unfortunately, active development for the app ceased more than a decade ago. MPC-BE” loading=”lazy” > Screenshot: MPC-BEĪ long, long time ago, there used to be a great open-source media player called Media Player Classic.

Does VLC on Xbox allow people to monitor that?” I’ve wondered if it’s someone like spying on me blacking me out for watching pirated videos. Though I have a problem with VLC on Xbox where it keeps blacking out my screen randomly. And, no, I don’t think anybody is spying on you: WingcommanderIV, who gets bonus points for that Kinja name, echoed similar thoughts. Nothing else comes close to customizability and consistency, not to mention it plays pretty much everything.” Like, not even once.”Īnd Lars Vargas only operates on reflexes and endocrine said:
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There are two huge reasons why you’d want to install this on your system: it’s a regularly updated, open-source app that’s free to use and, more importantly, it can handle just about any file you throw at it.

And if they haven’t, you’re all about to get a crash course in all things VLC. And if you haven’t, your tech-savvy friends have probably mentioned it. This one’s a no-brainer, right? If you’ve been around a computer for the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard of VLC. There are also a lot of media-player apps, so we recently reached out to get your thoughts on the media player apps you love using. There are a lot these apps can do that your regular apps cannot. They might be easier to use or prettier to look at they could be more compatible with all kinds of obscure codecs you want to play and they might even offer killer features, such as a built-in video converter or even bookmarks for jumping around to your favourite parts in a movie. There are plenty of awesome third-party media players that offer a host of benefits you can’t get in your operating system’s default app.
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And while you can probably just pull it up in your operating system’s default player, there’s no reason why you should limit yourself to the boring ol’ Windows Media Player or Quicktime.Â
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Everyone has something on their PC worth watching ” that funny video you just shot on holidays, some movie you downloaded that you probably shouldn’t have, a highlight from your favourite concert, et cetera.
