VLC for everything except RMVBs and MKVs which for some reason won't show subs in VLC but will in Media Player Classic. However I have to use Media Player Classic if I want to watch anything on my tv, which is setup as a second monitor, because VLC won't full screen on a second display.
Master_Saibot
Why would you even use VLC if you have Media Player Classic? :P It's not just subtitles; VLC has always had issues supporting features of the Matroska container in general.
Only thing VLC really has over MPC-HC is better DVD playback support -- MPC-HC is better than VLC in every other aspect. I used to use VLC only for DVD playback, but I later replaced it with PowerDVD for DVD/Blu-Ray playback.
Subtitle support in the newer builds of MPC-HC is awesome..styled softsubs are beautiful even with low-resolution video. Example. (720p video upscaled to fit a 1080p screen, yet the upscaling doesn't cause blockiness in the subtitles; they're rendered internally at a static resolution independent of the video content resolution.)
I don't watch movies on my computer often so I just use WMP. But after looking at all the responses in this thread I'm thinking I should start using VLC.
I see alot of VLC love here. It definitely does not beat the paid versions of some players like power DVD.Bluff_Master_2
Why would you pay for one? From what i've seen bought video players only offer more advanced features for a limited amount of formats, much less than VLC or Zoom.
It's an open source video player which runs on Linux along with Mac and Windows and os like most open source programs that run on linux it can open pretty much anything you care to throw at it.
[QUOTE="Bluff_Master_2"]I see alot of VLC love here. It definitely does not beat the paid versions of some players like power DVD.markop2003
Why would you pay for one? From what i've seen bought video players only offer more advanced features for a limited amount of formats, much less than VLC or Zoom.Well if you like to watch movies on headphones then VLC totally sucks. It's headphone virtualization feature is terrible and that is the only thing it has for headphones. With power DVD you get dolby headphone which is by far the best headphone DSP I have ever heard. And still there are 3 other headphone DSP's as well with power DVD. And again if you have good speakers then the available options in power DVD far surpass that of VLC. Ofcourse it's not worth paying if all you do is watch divX and the like formats. But for DVD's the amount of little quirks that power DVD offers, it's totally worth it, like how I love that feature where you can repeat a portion of a movie as many times as you want.
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