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YaBoyDrew	Date: February 14, 2005 @ 12:33 PM does anyone kno of a media player for WINDOWS XP that has all of the codecs (such as .avi .mpeg .mov .mpg) prefably a free one
sturges	Date: February 15, 2005 @ 2:56 AM Eh, you could always go with WinAmp - handles a variety of codecs rather impressively... good stuff. http://www.winamp.com Oh yes - basic player is free.
pog	Date: February 15, 2005 @ 8:20 PM That's an interesting question. The trouble is that as soon as you have all the latest codecs, a new update is released.... you could get a "codec pack" such as nimo, but these sometimes conflict with existing codecs is you already have them installed. In short, you have to know what you have installed before attempting to install codec packs. Another option is to use ffdshow which is a codec that runs most formats, it's free and open sourced. As far as media players, I'd have to say that mediaplayer classic is my favorite because it can use all formats, and is lighter than a lot of the more bloated players on the market.
mtekk	Date: February 15, 2005 @ 8:40 PM well Foobar 2000 is nice and light weight alternative to WinAmp and 100000% free. uses like 2,600K of memory when minimised which is low, it's a audio player. I like real player for video files with the Xvid codec for dvix, Xvid and 3vid files, primarily Xvid .avi there is a player called Xvid, not to be confused with Xvid the codec, which is simmular to FB2K and is by far the best for Xvid encoded files.
wet1	Date: February 16, 2005 @ 5:55 PM Try VLC, a free player that can be found on google. It comes with most every codex needed.
hantu	Date: August 26, 2005 @ 1:26 PM i usually just goto free-codecs.com
shadowself	Date: August 26, 2005 @ 3:17 PM I agree with wet1. There is not a lot that VideoLAN can't play. http://www.videolan.org/
GeneHilbert	Date: August 26, 2005 @ 3:22 PM Don't you already windows media player?
hantu	Date: August 28, 2005 @ 11:50 PM oh yeh gspot is good to find which codec you need... sometimes you can get these awkward little buggers
jimbobber1985	Date: November 23, 2005 @ 6:49 AM yo wet, vlc rocks, plays dvds n'all
shadowself	Date: November 23, 2005 @ 10:36 AM Yup. Even files that choke and gag in Windows Bloated Intrusive Media Player will play flawlessly in VLC.

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