What are the Best / Worst Media players In The World?

Question

lately I've been trying many media players and really got to love and hate many of them for one or another reason, so would like to hear your opinions on which ones are the best and worst media players :p

so, mine are:

Best Audio player: Quintessential Media Player (currently is just a development build, but it has all the functionality i want in a player and using the Bass Audio plugin it gives the best audio quality)

Best Video Player: Media Player Classic (this little beast made by gabest, is so simple yet so useful it is just great, can play anything you through at it with a good combination of codecs, it even has it's own very few of it's own)

Worst Audio Player: Winamp 5 (gotta say i hate winamp for the way they went after the first WA5 releases, it's just bloatware right now, whatever happened to the all good all great work Winamp 2.91 had already on it...)

Worst Video Player: Windows Media Player after version 6 (what can i say, a player that looks on the net for codecs (that it doesn't even find) any other player can play, how could it be any good..

you have to see, there is actually no good overall media player out there, and they have to be separated, wonder why is that...

Notable appearances:

Audio: XMPlay, so light, so tiny, so much quality, so good player, a player that is less than 350kB for download, yet has the best quality sound a player can give without external agents, too bad settings are so limiting...

Video: VideoLan player, multiplataform wise, works with almost any video file there is, and does a hell of a job all on his own, not needing codecs or anything, which actually makes it limited...

Answer 1

Agree on Windows Media Player and VideoLan, just to add Windows Mobile Media Player is as inefficient as inefficient goes, while TCPMP for WM can handle background audio playback with a game in front the same cannot be said for Windows Mobile Media Player, plus a nifty PDA rotation feature available on TCPMP for Desktop, not to mention the efficiency of TCPMP for Palm.

Answer 2

windows media player version 11