Best Free Media Player

Miroslav

I have a problem with my PC that won't play Windows Media files via Windows Media Player, but the VLC Media Player will play them, but I cannot change the video settings.

Are there any free media players that will allow a free version to change these settings?

I've downloaded a few from download.com but they've all been poor

Thanks

Blacksheep1979

media player classic is good

http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

dazed

on the file right click and select 'open with' then find the VLC player.exe file


normally

C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC

vlc.exe

hth

Alfie_E

What do you mean by “video settings”? Contrast, brightness, saturation, etc.? For those, go to Settings -> Extended GUI -> Image adjustment -> Enable. If you’re playing a video at the time, stop it and restart it. There seems to be a bug that means enabling it midway through playing can cause the video to vanish. Also, as VLC will use the overlay if you computer graphics provide this, you can also change the brightness, etc. using the software for controlling your computer’s graphics system.

If you mean the file type associations, which program handles which sort of file, there’s a option to automatically set VLC to handle various file types during the installation process.

dazed

Alfie_E wrote:

What do you mean by “video settings”? Contrast, brightness, saturation, etc.? For those, go to Settings -> Extended GUI -> Image adjustment -> Enable. If you’re playing a video at the time, stop it and restart it. There seems to be a bug that means enabling it midway through playing can cause the video to vanish. Also, as VLC will use the overlay if you computer graphics provide this, you can also change the brightness, etc. using the software for controlling your computer’s graphics system.

If you mean the file type associations, which program handles which sort of file, there’s a option to automatically set VLC to handle various file types during the installation process.

vlc is good as a video player can get so getting the player to play all video files is better than fussing aroung with crap imo

Miroslav

Alfie_E wrote:

What do you mean by “video settings”? Contrast, brightness, saturation, etc.? For those, go to Settings -> Extended GUI -> Image adjustment -> Enable. If you’re playing a video at the time, stop it and restart it. There seems to be a bug that means enabling it midway through playing can cause the video to vanish. Also, as VLC will use the overlay if you computer graphics provide this, you can also change the brightness, etc. using the software for controlling your computer’s graphics system.

If you mean the file type associations, which program handles which sort of file, there’s a option to automatically set VLC to handle various file types during the installation process.

Yes, meant Contrast etc.........sorted it now.

Thanks for all your help everyone!