Video Viewer Vlc Portable Multimedia Player
) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. MPC-HC's pronounced and long-time tendency to crash pushed nearly everyone, including myself, to the somewhat geeky, but very capable VLC.VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as Blu-ray, DVD.VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, mp3, ogg. Over the years, I’ve used Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), it's predecessor Media Player Classic, and VLC extensively. Some icons are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0+.I had a firm belief that this head-to-head was going to be a rout for VideoLAN Player aka, VLC. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license. VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization.
A few last words To sum it up, VLC media player is an application that comes equipped. After pitting the two players against each other on eight criteria, I'm back to using MPC-HC as my everyday video player.You can easily switch to fullscreen for a clearer view, and there are even a few audio visualization options. The only flaw was with my plan.
When VLC runs into a problem, it often goes into a loop that requires several attempts to break out of. Both programs played VCDs and DVDs (even commercial ones), nicely handling the menus and other elements, and both played non-protected Blu-ray movies, too.There was another factor: The stark difference between the way the two programs react to a file they don’t understand. On the other hand, MPC-HC did play another older MPEG-1 that choked VLC. Both also had a hard time seeking in certain WMV files, though VLC was quicker on long jumps. There was one exception: an old MPEG-1 file that VLC won’t handle either. Using the LAV filter pack, the program is more stable with bad files than VLC.What’s more, MPC-HC played nearly everything else I threw at it.
It’s called VideoLAN for a reason. It's broad support for less-common file types is legendary.This one was a laugher for VLC. LAV is based on the popular GNU-licensed FFmpeg.VLC's claim to fame is the ability to play streaming media across the network and Web. The release notes for version 1.7 actually stress the increased stability. It might be nice if it displayed a frown clown instead of just sitting there, but that's being picayune.MPC-HC’s new-found stability with video seems due to replacing its old internal DirectShow filters with Nevcairiel’s excellent LAV filters. MPC-HC simply doesn’t play a file it doesn't understand.
So that’s eight formats to two, but a random fail on by far the most common type. On the other hand, it failed on one JPEG, then displayed it fine later. Both automatically load subtitles the vast majority of the time.Neither program is really made for images, nor will they do a slideshow worth a darn but while VLC spun its wheels on nearly everything other than PNG and JPEG files, MPC-HC displayed BMP, compressed and uncompressed TIFF, PNG, static and animated GIFs, and TGA (Targa) files.
This wasn't as close as I made it sound. VLC always returns to its previous window size when it starts playback again. I’ve used VLC for years and still have to hunt around for options on occasion.I also appreciate that when I resize MPC-HC, it stays that way, even when I'm looping a video. MPC-HC’s context menus don’t change as VLC’s do when you’re in full-screen mode, and it’s easier to remember where everything is. VLC has clunky icons and its garish orange work cone (aren’t you supposed to avoid these?).But the real difference is that MPC-HC's menus and features are far better organized and laid out. MPC-HC was derived from the older Media Player Classic, whose interface is based on the Windows 95/XP Media Player.
You can also load these from files, but I never located any that don’t already ship with MPC-HC. But VLC has more granular speed control smoother slow speed playback it stretches/compresses audio to retain the original pitch, instead of simply speeding it up or down as MPC-HC does it lets you loop portions of the material, which MPC-HC does not allow and it offers a few more tweaks that you can apply to video, such as interactive magnification, although they're hidden away in multiple dialog boxes.MPC-HC lets you use shaders (aka filters or FX), such as grayscale, edge sharpen, and emboss. Both players play normal speed and allow you to skip anywhere you want in the material.
Then there's it's ability to play back 4K. I run a Core i7-3770 with SSDs, which tends to make everything seem the same speed but MPC-HC still opens faster, reacts more quickly to drag and drop, and even resizes more smoothly. A big shout out to the VLC guys for that.MPC-HC feels tightly programmed, which is something I appreciate from my days coding. VLC is cross-platform, supporting just about everything, including Windows Phone and Windows RT. I’m calling shaders/FX a tie, but more facile and feature-complete playback wins the day for VLC.VLC has a very nice audio boost feature built right into the volume control, where MPC-HC has its boost buried in a dialog.
The ridiculous hoops that you must jump through with WMP to skip about material, however, have always sent me looking for something else. It's also a pretty fair librarian/organizer, which neither VLC or MPC-HC is good for. VLC should really up its file-parsing game.Installing external DirectShow filters like LAV can enable Windows Media Player to play just about any file type, and its audio enhancement is the best in the business.
But that’s another article.Microsoft has a capable player in Windows Media Player, but it falls down hard when you want to play media at different speeds.I'm going to call this a victory for MPC-HC. Major kudos to the MPC-HC developer team for finally making it stable (with a nod to LAV package by Nevcairiel) while maintaining its keep-it-simple-stupid philosophy.I would recommend keeping VLC around and up to date for those times that you want to stream outside of a browser, or loop segments, or play material at different speeds.
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