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MeDIa plAYer?

Apr 14, 2006 6:55PM PDT

What is the best free media player?

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Can you be more specific?
Apr 14, 2006 11:13PM PDT

Depends on what you intend to play.

VideoLan (www.videolan.org) is good video player that doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It will play video encoded in various formats.

Jeff

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Simple
Apr 16, 2006 12:04AM PDT
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Be free of codec mania.
Apr 16, 2006 12:27AM PDT

Look up VLCPLAYER on your favorite search engine.

Bob

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irfanview
Nov 13, 2007 12:35AM PST

What a crock of **** ! opens folders, Doesnt even show FILES ..How the F####### R U supposed to use this pile of junk. Don't say read the manual , cos if its got one then its too friggin complicated .
Stick it where the sun don't shine.

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In your case.
Nov 13, 2007 12:43AM PST

I think more reading of the manual is needed.

Bob